Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy;[1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q430929
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Filmography (Movies)
Sigrid Holmquist
Character:Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Release Date:08/10/2010
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/09/2003
Everybody's Sweetheart
Character:Mary
Release Date:04/10/1920
Darling Mine
Character:Kitty McCarthy
Release Date:16/08/1920
The Flapper
Character:Genevieve 'Ginger' King
Release Date:10/05/1920
Youthful Folly
Character:Nancy Sherwin
Release Date:08/03/1920
Footlights and Shadows
Character:Gloria Dawn
Release Date:14/02/1920
Out Yonder
Character:Flotsam
Release Date:21/12/1919
The Glorious Lady
Character:Ivis Benson
Release Date:19/10/1919
The Spite Bride
Character:Tessa Doyle
Release Date:21/09/1919
Prudence on Broadway
Character:Prudence
Release Date:06/07/1919
Upstairs and Down
Character:Alice Chesterton
Release Date:08/06/1919
Love's Prisoner
Character:Nancy, later Lady Clevela
Release Date:07/06/1919
The Follies Girl
Character:Doll
Release Date:27/04/1919
Toton
Character:Toton/ Yvonne
Release Date:30/03/1919
Heiress For a Day
Character:Helen Thurston
Release Date:03/03/1918
Limousine Life
Character:Minnie Wells
Release Date:03/02/1918
Betty Takes a Hand
Character:Betty Marshall
Release Date:06/01/1918
Tom Sawyer
Character:Choir Member (Uncredited)
Release Date:10/12/1917
Indiscreet Corinne
Character:Corinne Chilvers
Release Date:11/11/1917
Broadway Arizona
Character:Fritzi Carlyle
Release Date:30/09/1917
An Even Break
Character:Claire Curtis
Release Date:05/08/1917
Madcap Madge
Character:Madge Flower
Release Date:24/06/1917
A Girl Like That
Character:Fannie Brooks
Release Date:18/01/1917
Beatrice Fairfax
Character:Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Release Date:07/08/1916
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