Alma Tell

from 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. 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 was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the 1920s, she 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. She made her last film appearance in the 1934 John M. Stahl-directed romantic-drama Imitation of Life, which starred Claudette Colbert. Tell died in 1937.

Timeline

1934Aged 36

  • Poster for Imitation of Life

    Mrs. Craven (uncredited)

1930Aged 32

  • Poster for Love Comes Along

    Carlotta

1929Aged 31

  • Poster for Saturday's Children

    Florrie

1928Aged 30

  • Poster for San Francisco Nights

    Ruth

1923Aged 25

  • Poster for The Silent Command

    Mrs. Richard Decatur

1922Aged 24

  • Poster for Broadway Rose

    Barbara Royce

1921Aged 23

  • Poster for Paying the Piper

    Marcia Marillo

  • Poster for The Iron Trail

    Eliza Appleton

1920Aged 22

  • Poster for On with the Dance

    Lady Tremelyn

  • Poster for The Right to Love

    Lady Edith

1917Aged 19

  • Poster for Nearly Married

    Gertrude Robinson

1916Aged 18

  • Poster for The Smugglers

    Mrs. Watts