Olive Tell
Olive Tell is known for The Scarlet Empress (1934), Baby Take a Bow (1934), Ten Cents a Dance (1931).
Biography
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.
Questions about Olive Tell
How many Olive Tell films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 16 films with Olive Tell, from 1917 to 1936.
What is the best rated Olive Tell film?
The best rated Olive Tell film in the catalogue is The Scarlet Empress (1934), rated 6.9.
What was the first Olive Tell film?
The first Olive Tell film in the catalogue is The Scarlet Empress, from 1934.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
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6.9 The Scarlet Empress
1934
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6.7 Ten Cents a Dance
1931
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5.7 Baby Take a Bow
1934
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7.3 Shanghai
1935
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5.7 Four Hours to Kill!
1935
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6.5 The Witching Hour
1934
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5.2 The Right of Way
1930
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8.0 National Red Cross Pageant
1917
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4.6 Ladies' Man
1931
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7.0 Polo Joe
1936
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8.0 Sailors' Wives
1928
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10.0 Woman Hungry
1931
Full filmography
40 films — 16 in the catalogue
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7.0
Under Southern Stars
1937 · Mrs. Jackson
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7.0
Polo Joe
1936 · Mrs. Hilton
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5.3 Yours for the Asking
1936 · Society Woman (uncredited)
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5.8 Brilliant Marriage
1936 · Mrs. Jane Taylor
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7.3
Shanghai
1935 · Mrs. Hilton
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5.7
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Mrs. Madison
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5.7
Baby Take a Bow
1934 · Mrs. Carson
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6.9
The Scarlet Empress
1934 · Princess Johanna Elizabeth
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6.5
The Witching Hour
1934 · Mrs. Helen Thorne
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7.5 Strictly Personal
1933 · Mrs. Laura Castleton
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4.4 False Faces
1932 · Mrs. Day
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6.5 Delicious
1931 · Mrs. Van Bergh
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7.2 Devotion
1931 · Mrs. Trent
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4.6
Ladies' Man
1931 · Mrs. Fendley
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10.0
Woman Hungry
1931 · Betty Temple
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6.7
Ten Cents a Dance
1931 · Mrs. Carlton
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5.2
The Right of Way
1930 · Kathleen
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6.5 Lawful Larceny
1930 · Vivan Hepburn
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3.9 Cock o' the Walk
1930 · Rosa Vallejo
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5.8 The Very Idea
1929 · Marion Green
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9.0 Corações no Exílio
1929 · Annna Reskova
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6.4 The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929 · Mrs. Gertrude Rice
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9.0 Soft Living
1928 · Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
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8.0
Sailors' Wives
1928 · Careth Lindsey
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7.0
Slaves of Beauty
1927 · Anastasia Jones
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4.0 Summer Bachelors
1926 · Mrs. Preston Smith
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9.0 The Prince of Tempters
1926 · Duchess of Chatsfield
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7.0 Womanhandled
1925 · Lucy Chatham
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7.0 Chickie
1925 · Ila Moore
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7.0 Worlds Apart
1921 · Elinor Ashe
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9.0 Clothes
1920 · Olivia Sherwood
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7.0 Wings of Pride
1920 · Olive Muir
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7.0 A Woman's Business
1920 · Barbara
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10.0 Love Without Question
1920 · Katherine
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10.0 The Trap
1919 · The Schoolteacher Heroine
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Secret Strings
1918 · Janet Newell
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To Hell with the Kaiser!
1918 · Alice Monroe
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National Red Cross Pageant
1917 · Louvain - Flemish episode
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10.0 The Unforseen
1917 · Margaret Fielding
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5.0 The Silent Master
1917 · Miss Virginia Arlen
People data: TMDb.
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