Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 20, 1894
Place of Birth:
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
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Olive Thomas
Biography
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy;[1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.
Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The Midnight Frolic. In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in more than 20 features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of fellow silent-film star Mary Pickford.
On September 10, 1920, Thomas died in Paris five days after ingesting her husband's syphilis medication, mercury dichloride, that brought on acute nephritis. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the early scandals in Hollywood that was heavily publicized.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | Self (archive footage) |
| 1920 | The Flapper | Genevieve 'Ginger' King |
| 1920 | Everybody's Sweetheart | Mary |
| 1920 | Footlights and Shadows | Gloria Dawn |
| 1920 | Youthful Folly | Nancy Sherwin |
| 1920 | Darling Mine | Kitty McCarthy |
| 1919 | Love's Prisoner | Nancy, later Lady Clevela |
| 1919 | Out Yonder | Flotsam |
| 1919 | The Glorious Lady | Ivis Benson |
| 1919 | Upstairs and Down | Alice Chesterton |
| 1919 | The Spite Bride | Tessa Doyle |
| 1919 | The Follies Girl | Doll |
| 1919 | Toton | Toton/ Yvonne |
| 1919 | Prudence on Broadway | Prudence |
| 1918 | Betty Takes a Hand | Betty Marshall |
| 1918 | Limousine Life | Minnie Wells |
| 1918 | Heiress For a Day | Helen Thurston |
| 1917 | An Even Break | Claire Curtis |
| 1917 | Madcap Madge | Madge Flower |
| 1917 | Broadway Arizona | Fritzi Carlyle |
| 1917 | Indiscreet Corinne | Corinne Chilvers |
| 1917 | A Girl Like That | Fannie Brooks |
| 1917 | Tom Sawyer | Choir Member (Uncredited) |
| 1916 | Beatrice Fairfax | Rita Malone (#10 Playball) |
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