Olive Thomas
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.
Out Yonder
as FlotsamFlotsam (Thomas) is the daughter and helper of crusty old lighthouse keeper Joe Clark (Edward...
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as Genevieve 'Ginger' KingA Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated...
Movie pageUpstairs and Down
as Alice ChestertonAlice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom...
Movie pageToton
as Toton/ YvonneIn the Latin Quarter of Paris, American artist David Lane (Norman Kerry) marries his model...
Movie pageThe Glorious Lady
as Ivis BensonDuring an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame...
Movie pageTom Sawyer
as Choir Member (Uncredited)Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack...
Movie pageLove's Prisoner
as Nancy, later Lady ClevelaA young lady, who "hates the law" rises from the tenements to society. Financial reverses lead...
Movie pageAn Even Break
as Claire CurtisClaire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon...
Movie pageBroadway Arizona
as Fritzi CarlyleWhile on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical...
Movie pageDarling Mine
as Kitty McCarthyPersuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels...
Movie pageLimousine Life
as Minnie WellsAfter leaving her sweetheart Jed Bronson, and small country town life, Minnie Wills (Olive...
Movie pageSigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the...
Movie pageA Girl Like That
as Fannie BrooksNell Gordon's father was once a burglar, but he has turned over a new leaf. When he falls ill,...
Movie pageIndiscreet Corinne
as Corinne ChilversBored with her life as the daughter of wealthy parents, Corinne Chilvers answers an ad in the...
Movie pageOlive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Self (archive footage)Explores the life and death of one of the first onscreen flappers. By the time she appeared in...
Movie pageThe Spite Bride
as Tessa DoyleTessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister...
Movie pageThe Follies Girl
as DollThe relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin...
Movie pageMadcap Madge
as Madge FlowerThe social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended...
Movie pageBeatrice Fairfax
as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret...
Movie pageYouthful Folly
as Nancy SherwinNancy is a restless young girl tired of living on a plantation with her three old-maid aunts....
Movie pagePrudence on Broadway
as PrudencePrudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a...
Movie pageEverybody's Sweetheart
as MaryWhen the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant,...
Movie pageBetty Takes a Hand
as Betty MarshallDiscovering that her father, Peter Marshall, had been defrauded by a business partner named...
Movie pageHeiress For a Day
as Helen ThurstonWorking as a manicurist at the Ritz, Helen Thurston, is in love with her wealthy patron, Jack...
Movie pageFootlights and Shadows
as Gloria DawnA fortune-hunting follies star Gloria Dawn ( Olive Thomas ), begins to question her engagement...
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