File:Olive Tell Who's Who on the Screen.jpg

DescriptionOlive Tell Who's Who on the Screen.jpg	Publicity photo of Olive Tell from Who's Who on the Screen
Date	1920
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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.