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