Olive Tell
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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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: September 27, 1894
Deathday: June 06, 1951
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Gender: Female
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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National Red Cross Pageant
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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Secret Strings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-07
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Sailors' Wives
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-22
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Devotion
Overview: A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Four Hours to Kill!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-11
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Under Southern Stars
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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Summer Bachelors
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-18
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The Witching Hour
Overview: Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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Love Without Question
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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Polo Joe
Overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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Ladies' Man
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-16
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Cock o' the Walk
Overview: Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-13
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Soft Living
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-05
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False Faces
Overview: 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”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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The Very Idea
Overview: Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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Ten Cents a Dance
Overview: A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-30
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Brilliant Marriage
Overview: When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-25
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The Trap
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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Shanghai
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Slaves of Beauty
Overview: Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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The Silent Master
Overview: Valentin Marquis de Sombreiul, alias Monsieur Simon, is known as the great master because he is the leader of a band of Parisian Apaches who mete out their own private justice to individuals who have violated their code in a secret tribunal known as the court of St. Simon. In an effort to cure Eugene, a young American longing for excitement, Valentin induces the young man to witness these horrors with the result that the youth is drawn into the Apache gang and sentenced to prison for one of their crimes. Later, after the master has disbanded his secret society and married Virginia Arlen, a girl from an aristocratic family, he discovers to his horror that the boy whose life he has ruined is his wife's brother. It is then up to him to try and make amends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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The Unforseen
Overview: 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.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-21
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Wings of Pride
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Lawful Larceny
Overview: When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-17
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Strictly Personal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Delicious
Overview: A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-27
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Womanhandled
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Right of Way
Overview: Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-11
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Hearts in Exile
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Baby Take a Bow
Overview: Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
Genres: Drama Family Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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Woman Hungry
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Prince of Tempters
Overview: Francis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, after being raised in a monastery following his parents death assumes his title but falls victim to a pair of schemers leading to much heartache before all is set aright before the fadeout.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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A Woman's Business
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Clothes
Overview: Mistakenly believing that she has inherited a large estate from her father, Olivia Sherwood spends money wantonly. In reality, her funds are supplied by unscrupulous attorney Arnold West, whose ulterior motive is to possess her. When she falls in love with wealthy Richard Burbank, West becomes enraged. At a party, West confronts Olivia with the truth and threatens to expose her unless she marries him. Olivia frantically attempts to escape his advances and as West pursues her, he falls down the stairs and breaks his neck. Burbank overhears the entire confrontation and forgives Olivia, and they marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-19
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Worlds Apart
Overview: Having been rejected by Phyllis Leigh in favor of wealthier suitor Peter Lester, Hugh prevents Elinor Ashe from drowning herself. Hugh recklessly marries Elinor, but they occupy different wings of his house. Lester and Phyllis arrive as guests, and a new manservant favored by Elinor is hired. When Lester is murdered, the servant is charged with the crime, and Elinor admits to Hugh that he is indeed her father, recently released from prison. While in the company of Marcia Marshall, Hugh discovers her husband Harley dying in a Chinese opium den. He confesses that, victimized by Lester, he killed him. Elinor's father is released, and she reconciles with Hugh.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Yours for the Asking
Overview: Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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