Olive Tell

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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 Sidney Olcott directed comedy

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), 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.