
Acting
Born September 27, 1894 · New York City, New York, USA
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

Polo Joe
1936

Yours for the Asking
1936

Brilliant Marriage
1936

Shanghai
1935

Four Hours to Kill!
1935

Baby Take a Bow
1934

The Scarlet Empress
1934

The Witching Hour
1934

Strictly Personal
1933

False Faces
1932

Delicious
1931

Devotion
1931

Ladies' Man
1931

Woman Hungry
1931

Ten Cents a Dance
1931

The Right of Way
1930

Lawful Larceny
1930

Cock o' the Walk
1930

The Very Idea
1929

Hearts in Exile
1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929

Soft Living
1928

Sailors' Wives
1928
Slaves of Beauty
1927

Summer Bachelors
1926

The Prince of Tempters
1926

Womanhandled
1925

Chickie
1925

Worlds Apart
1921

Clothes
1920

Wings of Pride
1920

A Woman's Business
1920

Love Without Question
1920

The Trap
1919

Secret Strings
1918

To Hell with the Kaiser!
1918

National Red Cross Pageant
1917

The Unforseen
1917

The Silent Master
1917