| Olive Tell was born in New York City but went to England when she was ten
years old to be educated in a convent outside of London. She then attended
a London finishing school and returned to New York to study at the Sargent
School of Acting. She made her stage debut in stock, but within three years
became a co-star with Thomas A. Wise and William Courtenay in "General
Post." Her screen debut in "Who Is Sylvia,'' followed by "The
Silent Master" and then came three adaptations of stage plays, "Her
Sister," in which Ethel Barrymore had played, "The Unforeseen"
and "The Girl and the Judge." She is five feet three inches high,
weighs a hundred and twenty-seven pounds, and has brown hair and blue eyes.
Miss Tell is a sister of Alma Tell, likewise us star of the screen. |