Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born September 27, 1894
From Wikipedia 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.
Under Southern Stars
1937
as Mrs. Jackson
MoviePolo Joe
1936
as Mrs. Hilton
MovieYours for the Asking
1936
as Society Woman (uncredited)
MovieBrilliant Marriage
1936
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
MovieShanghai
1935
as Mrs. Hilton
MovieFour Hours to Kill!
1935
as Mrs. Madison
MovieBaby Take a Bow
1934
as Mrs. Carson
MovieThe Scarlet Empress
1934
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
MovieThe Witching Hour
1934
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
MovieStrictly Personal
1933
as Mrs. Laura Castleton
MovieFalse Faces
1932
as Mrs. Day
MovieDelicious
1931
as Mrs. Van Bergh
MovieDevotion
1931
as Mrs. Trent
MovieLadies' Man
1931
as Mrs. Fendley
MovieWoman Hungry
1931
as Betty Temple
MovieTen Cents a Dance
1931
as Mrs. Carlton
MovieThe Right of Way
1930
as Kathleen
MovieLawful Larceny
1930
as Vivan Hepburn
MovieCock o' the Walk
1930
as Rosa Vallejo
MovieThe Very Idea
1929
as Marion Green
MovieHearts in Exile
1929
as Annna Reskova
MovieThe Trial of Mary Dugan
1929
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
MovieSoft Living
1928
as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
MovieSailors' Wives
1928
as Careth Lindsey
Slaves of Beauty
1927
as Anastasia Jones
MovieSummer Bachelors
1926
as Mrs. Preston Smith
MovieThe Prince of Tempters
1926
as Duchess of Chatsfield
MovieWomanhandled
1925
as Lucy Chatham
MovieChickie
1925
as Ila Moore
MovieWorlds Apart
1921
as Elinor Ashe
MovieClothes
1920
as Olivia Sherwood
MovieWings of Pride
1920
as Olive Muir
MovieA Woman's Business
1920
as Barbara
MovieLove Without Question
1920
as Katherine
MovieThe Trap
1919
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
MovieSecret Strings
1918
as Janet Newell
MovieTo Hell with the Kaiser!
1918
as Alice Monroe
MovieNational Red Cross Pageant
1917
as Louvain - Flemish episode
MovieThe Unforseen
1917
as Margaret Fielding
MovieThe Silent Master
1917
as Miss Virginia Arlen
