Olive Thomas
Actor
- Born
- October 20, 1894 · Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 10, 1920 (age 25)
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.
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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
The Flapper
May 10, 1920
Tom Sawyer
December 10, 1917
Love's Prisoner
June 7, 1919
Out Yonder
December 21, 1919
The Glorious Lady
October 19, 1919
Everybody's Sweetheart
October 4, 1920
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
September 1, 2003
Beatrice Fairfax
August 7, 1916
Upstairs and Down
June 8, 1919
Sigrid Holmquist
October 8, 2010
The Spite Bride
September 21, 1919
An Even Break
August 5, 1917
Acting25
- 2010Sigrid Holmquist as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
- 2003Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World as Self (archive footage)
- 1920Everybody's Sweetheart as Mary
- 1920Darling Mine as Kitty McCarthy
- 1920The Flapper as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
- 1920Youthful Folly as Nancy Sherwin
- 1920Footlights and Shadows as Gloria Dawn
- 1919Out Yonder as Flotsam
- 1919The Glorious Lady as Ivis Benson
- 1919