Olive Thomas
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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
Credits
The Flapper (1920)
as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
Toton (1919)
as Toton/ Yvonne
Betty Takes a Hand (1918)
as Betty Marshall
The Follies Girl (1919)
as Doll
Love's Prisoner (1919)
as Nancy, later Lady Clevela
Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
The Glorious Lady (1919)
as Ivis Benson
Youthful Folly (1920)
as Nancy Sherwin
Tom Sawyer (1917)
as Choir Member (Uncredited)
An Even Break (1917)
as Claire Curtis
A Girl Like That (1917)
as Fannie Brooks
Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)
as Mary
Out Yonder (1919)
as Flotsam
Heiress For a Day (1918)
as Helen Thurston
Footlights and Shadows (1920)
as Gloria Dawn
Prudence on Broadway (1919)
as Prudence
Indiscreet Corinne (1917)
as Corinne Chilvers
Limousine Life (1918)
as Minnie Wells
Broadway Arizona (1917)
as Fritzi Carlyle
Madcap Madge (1917)
as Madge Flower
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
The Spite Bride (1919)
as Tessa Doyle
Upstairs and Down (1919)
as Alice Chesterton
Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Darling Mine (1920)
as Kitty McCarthy