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Olive Tell (September 27, 1894 – June 6, 1951) was a stage and screen actress from New York City. She first appeared in motion pictures during World War I.
Her early screen roles were in silent films like The Silent Master (1917), The Unforeseen (1917), Her Sister (1917), and National Red Cross Pageant (1917). Tell appeared opposite such popular film actors of the era as Donald Gallaher, Karl Dane, Ann Little, Rod La Rocque, Ethel Barrymore and a young Tallulah Bankhead.
Tell married First National Pictures movie producer Henry M. Hobart in 1926. Her first husband was killed in World War I. Hobart and Tell moved to California in 1926 and stayed in Hollywood for twelve years.
Her final screen credits came in the late 1930s. She performed in In His Steps (1936), Polo Joe (1936) with Joe E. Brown, Easy To Take (1936), and Under Southern Stars (1937). Tell's final screen appearance was in the George Cukor directed drama Zaza (1939), starring Claudette Colbert.
Olive Tell died in Bellevue Hospital in 1951 after suffering a fractured skull at the Dryden Hotel, 150 East Thirty-Ninth Street, New York City, where she resided. She was fifty-six years old.
Gender
Female
Birthday
September 27, 1894
Died
June 6, 1951
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Under Southern Stars
1937
Summer Bachelors
1926
The Scarlet Empress
1934
Woman Hungry
1931
Strictly Personal
1933
Ladies' Man
1931
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
Polo Joe
1936
Secret Strings
1918
Delicious
1931
National Red Cross Pageant
1917
The Trap
1919
Slaves of Beauty
1927
Lawful Larceny
1930
The Right of Way
1930
Brilliant Marriage
1936
Cock o' the Walk
1930
Chickie
1925
To Hell with the Kaiser!
1918
The Witching Hour
1934
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