Olive Tell

Olive Tell

Nacimiento : 1894-09-27, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1951-06-06

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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.

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Olive Tell

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Under Southern Stars
Mrs. Jackson
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
Polo Joe
Mrs. Hilton
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Brilliant Marriage
Mrs. Jane Taylor
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Shanghai
Mrs. Hilton
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Four Hours to Kill!
Mrs. Madison
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Baby Take a Bow
Mrs. Carson
Eddie Ellison es un ex convicto que pasó un tiempo en la prisión de Sing-Sing. Kay se casa con él tan pronto como cumple su hora. Cinco años después, Eddie y su ex compañero convicto Larry, ambos se han ido, y Eddie y Kay tienen una hermosa niña llamada Shirley. Sin embargo, Welch ha mantenido una estrecha vigilancia sobre ellos durante años. Él cree en "una vez un criminal, siempre un criminal". Luego, cuando las perlas de la esposa del empleador de Eddie se pierden, resulta que Eddie y Larry pasaron un tiempo en prisión y fueron despedidos. Welch sospecha que Eddie y Larry tienen algo que ver con el robo de las perlas. ¿Probará Welch que Eddie y Larry tuvieron algo que ver con el robo o prevalecerá la verdad?
Capricho imperial
Princess Johanna Elizabeth
La princesa alemana Sophia Federica (Dietrich) ha sido educada desde niña para convertirse en reina. Al llegar a la adolescencia se concierta y celebra su matrimonio con el Gran Duque de Rusia (Sam Jaffe), el futuro zar Pedro I el Grande, un hombre enfermo de cuerpo y alma. La zarina Elizabeth hace que Sophia cambie su nombre por el de Catalina, aprenda ruso inmediatamente y no vuelva a hablar su lengua materna. Además, deberá darle un heredero que asegure la continuidad de la dinastía Romanov. Pero las relaciones con su inestable marido no van bien.
The Witching Hour
Mrs. Helen Thorne
Jack Brookfield, un jugador con poderes clarividentes e hipnóticos, es capaz de ganar jugando a las cartas utilizándolos. Pero cuando inadvertidamente hipnotiza al joven Clay Thorne, éste, mientras está en trance, mata a un enemigo de Brookfield. Nadie cree en lo que afirma Brookfield de que Thorne es inocente de cualquier intento de asesino, por lo que Brookfield se asocia con Martin Prentice, abogado ya jubilado, con la esperanza de salvar al joven de la horca.
Strictly Personal
Mrs. Laura Castleton
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
False Faces
Mrs. Day
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
Delicious
Mrs. Van Bergh
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Devotion
Mrs. Trent
A young Londoner (Ann Harding) disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister (Leslie Howard) she loves.
Ladies' Man
Mrs. Fendley
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
Woman Hungry
Betty Temple
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
Ten Cents a Dance
Mrs. Carlton
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
The Right of Way
Kathleen
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Lawful Larceny
Vivan Hepburn
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
Cock o' the Walk
Rosa Vallejo
Carlos López es un apuesto deportista argentino, al que temen y detestan casi todos los hombres casados de Buenos Aires.
The Very Idea
Marion Green
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.
Hearts in Exile
Annna Reskova
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
The Trial Of Mary Dugan
Mrs. Gertrude Rice
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
Soft Living
Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
Sailors' Wives
Careth Lindsey
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Slaves of Beauty
Anastasia Jones
Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
Summer Bachelors
Mrs. Preston Smith
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
The Prince of Tempters
Duchess of Chatsfield
Womanhandled
Lucy Chatham
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Wings of Pride
Olive Muir
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father comes to visit the Muir home, Olive learns to her horror that she is adopted and that Prentice is her real father.
A Woman's Business
Love Without Question
Katherine
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia.
The Trap
The Schoolteacher Heroine
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.
Secret Strings
Janet Newell
In this detective picture, Janet marries Raoul Newell but leaves him when she finds out he is a thief. However, when he comes to her and asks her to help retrieve some papers stolen from him by Mr. and Mrs. Giles, she agrees and goes to work for the couple as a maid. But in reality, Raoul is after the couple's jewels.
National Red Cross Pageant
Louvain - Flemish episode
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
The Unforseen
Margaret Fielding
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell.....
The Silent Master
Miss Virginia Arlen
Crime and Drama silent movie