Olive Thomas
Age: N/A | From: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Olive R. Duffy , Oliva R. Duffy , Oliveretta Elaine Duffy
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
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Movie Involvements: 15
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Glorious Lady
(1919) Ivis Benson
Sigrid Holmquist
(2010) Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
(2003) Self (archive footage)
Everybody's Sweetheart
(1920) Mary
Beatrice Fairfax
(1916) Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Love's Prisoner
(1919) Nancy, later Lady Clevela
Out Yonder
(1919) Flotsam
The Spite Bride
(1919) Tessa DoyleActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1920 | Mary | |
| Kitty McCarthy | ||
| Genevieve 'Ginger' King | ||
| Nancy Sherwin | ||
| Gloria Dawn | ||
| 1919 | Flotsam | |
| Ivis Benson | ||
| Tessa Doyle | ||
| Prudence | ||
| Alice Chesterton | ||
| Nancy, later Lady Clevela | ||
| Doll | ||
| Toton/ Yvonne | ||
| 1918 | Helen Thurston | |
| Minnie Wells | ||
| Betty Marshall | ||
| 1917 | Choir Member (Uncredited) | |
| Corinne Chilvers | ||
| Fritzi Carlyle | ||
| Claire Curtis | ||
| Madge Flower | ||
| Fannie Brooks | ||
| 1916 | Rita Malone (#10 Playball) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |