Olive Thomas
Acting
1894-10-20 · Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography(25)
movieSigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) · 2010 · 7.0
movieOlive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Self (archive footage) · 2003 · 7.0
movieEverybody's Sweetheart
as Mary · 1920 · 7.7
movieDarling Mine
as Kitty McCarthy · 1920 · 0.0
movieThe Flapper
as Genevieve 'Ginger' King · 1920 · 6.2
movieYouthful Folly
as Nancy Sherwin · 1920 · 0.0
movieFootlights and Shadows
as Gloria Dawn · 1920 · 0.0
movieOut Yonder
as Flotsam · 1919 · 6.8
movieThe Glorious Lady
as Ivis Benson · 1919 · 7.3
movieThe Spite Bride
as Tessa Doyle · 1919 · 9.0
moviePrudence on Broadway
as Prudence · 1919 · 10.0
movieUpstairs and Down
as Alice Chesterton · 1919 · 7.0
movieLove's Prisoner
as Nancy, later Lady Clevela · 1919 · 5.9
movieThe Follies Girl
as Doll · 1919 · 8.0
movieToton
as Toton/ Yvonne · 1919 · 8.0
movieHeiress For a Day
as Helen Thurston · 1918 · 0.0
movieLimousine Life
as Minnie Wells · 1918 · 0.0
movieBetty Takes a Hand
as Betty Marshall · 1918 · 7.0
movieTom Sawyer
as Choir Member (Uncredited) · 1917 · 5.0
movieIndiscreet Corinne
as Corinne Chilvers · 1917 · 0.0
movieBroadway Arizona
as Fritzi Carlyle · 1917 · 6.0
movieAn Even Break
as Claire Curtis · 1917 · 7.0
movieMadcap Madge
as Madge Flower · 1917 · 6.0
movieA Girl Like That
as Fannie Brooks · 1917 · 0.0