Born 1894 (age 56) · New York City, New York, USA
Appears in 40 titles

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.

Filmography

The Scarlet Empress
6.9
The Scarlet Empress
1934
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Baby Take a Bow
5.7
Baby Take a Bow
1934
as Mrs. Carson
Ten Cents a Dance
6.8
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
as Mrs. Carlton
Ladies' Man
4.6
Ladies' Man
1931
as Mrs. Fendley
Four Hours to Kill!
5.7
Four Hours to Kill!
1935
as Mrs. Madison
The Right of Way
5.2
The Right of Way
1930
as Kathleen
Devotion
7.2
Devotion
1931
as Mrs. Trent
Cock o' the Walk
3.9
Cock o' the Walk
1930
as Rosa Vallejo
False Faces
4.4
False Faces
1932
as Mrs. Day
The Trial of Mary Dugan
6.4
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Delicious
6.5
Delicious
1931
as Mrs. Van Bergh
The Witching Hour
6.5
The Witching Hour
1934
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
The Very Idea
5.8
The Very Idea
1929
as Marion Green
Brilliant Marriage
5.8
Brilliant Marriage
1936
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
Lawful Larceny
6.5
Lawful Larceny
1930
as Vivan Hepburn
Summer Bachelors
4.0
Summer Bachelors
1926
as Mrs. Preston Smith
Shanghai
7.3
Shanghai
1935
as Mrs. Hilton
Womanhandled
7.0
Womanhandled
1925
as Lucy Chatham
Yours for the Asking
5.3
Yours for the Asking
1936
as Society Woman (uncredited)
Strictly Personal
7.5
Strictly Personal
1933
as Mrs. Laura Castleton