Olive Thomas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 20, 1894
- Died
- September 10, 1920 (aged 25)
- Birthplace
- Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Photos
Filmography
Sigrid Holmquist
Movie · as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Flapper
Movie · as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
Everybody's Sweetheart
Movie · as Mary
Youthful Folly
Movie · as Nancy Sherwin
Footlights and Shadows
Movie · as Gloria Dawn
Darling Mine
Movie · as Kitty McCarthy
Love's Prisoner
Movie · as Nancy, later Lady Clevela
Out Yonder
Movie · as Flotsam
The Glorious Lady
Movie · as Ivis Benson
Upstairs and Down
Movie · as Alice Chesterton
The Spite Bride
Movie · as Tessa Doyle
The Follies Girl
Movie · as Doll
Toton
Movie · as Toton/ Yvonne
Prudence on Broadway
Movie · as Prudence
Betty Takes a Hand
Movie · as Betty Marshall
Limousine Life
Movie · as Minnie Wells
Heiress For a Day
Movie · as Helen Thurston
An Even Break
Movie · as Claire Curtis
Indiscreet Corinne
Movie · as Corinne Chilvers
Broadway Arizona
Movie · as Fritzi Carlyle
Madcap Madge
Movie · as Madge Flower
A Girl Like That
Movie · as Fannie Brooks
Tom Sawyer
Movie · as Choir Member (Uncredited)
Beatrice Fairfax
Movie · as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)