Known For
Acting
Known Credits
25
Gender
Female
Birthday
October 20, 1894 (131 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
| 2010 | Sigrid Holmquistas Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the Worldas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1920 | Everybody's Sweetheartas Mary | |
| 1920 | Darling Mineas Kitty McCarthy | |
| 1920 | The Flapperas Genevieve 'Ginger' King | |
| 1920 | Youthful Follyas Nancy Sherwin | |
| 1920 | Footlights and Shadowsas Gloria Dawn | |
| 1919 | Out Yonderas Flotsam | |
| 1919 | The Glorious Ladyas Ivis Benson | |
| 1919 | The Spite Brideas Tessa Doyle | |
| 1919 | Prudence on Broadwayas Prudence | |
| 1919 | Upstairs and Downas Alice Chesterton | |
| 1919 | Love's Prisoneras Nancy, later Lady Clevela | |
| 1919 | The Follies Girlas Doll | |
| 1919 | Totonas Toton/ Yvonne | |
| 1918 | Heiress For a Dayas Helen Thurston | |
| 1918 | Limousine Lifeas Minnie Wells | |
| 1918 | Betty Takes a Handas Betty Marshall | |
| 1917 | Tom Sawyeras Choir Member (Uncredited) | |
| 1917 | Indiscreet Corinneas Corinne Chilvers | |
| 1917 | Broadway Arizonaas Fritzi Carlyle | |
| 1917 | An Even Breakas Claire Curtis | |
| 1917 | Madcap Madgeas Madge Flower | |
| 1917 | A Girl Like Thatas Fannie Brooks | |
| 1916 | Beatrice Fairfaxas Rita Malone (#10 Playball) |
| 1920 | Youthful Folly...Writer |