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Alma Tell

Birthday

1898-02-27

Place of Birth

New York City - New York - USA

Biography

From Wikipedia

Alma Tell (March 27, 1898 - December 29, 1937) was an

American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915

and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s.

Tell was born in New York City, New York in 1898. She was

the younger sister of stage and motion picture actress Olive Tell (1895-1951).

She began her career as an actress on the stages of New York before making her

screen debut in the Edward José-directed drama Simon, the Jester, released in

September 1915. Tell's career never quite rivalled that of her older sister and

she was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the

1920s, Tell appeared opposite such leading silent film actresses as Mae Murray,

Corinne Griffith and Madge Kennedy and would achieve leading lady status in

1923's J. Gordon Edwards-directed film The Silent Command, opposite actors

Edmund Lowe, Martha Mansfield and Béla Lugosi in his first American film role.

She made her last film appearance in the 1934 John M.

Stahl-directed romantic-drama Imitation of Life, which starred Claudette

Colbert. She died in 1937 and was interred at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial

Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Filmography of Alma Tell
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