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.

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2010
Sigrid Holmquist
Movie Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2003
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Movie Self (archive footage)
1920
Everybody's Sweetheart
Movie Mary
1920
Darling Mine
Movie Kitty McCarthy
1920
The Flapper
Movie Genevieve 'Ginger' King
1920
Youthful Folly
Movie Nancy Sherwin
1920
Footlights and Shadows
Movie Gloria Dawn
1919
Out Yonder
Movie Flotsam
1919
The Glorious Lady
Movie Ivis Benson
1919
The Spite Bride
Movie Tessa Doyle
1919
Prudence on Broadway
Movie Prudence
1919
Upstairs and Down
Movie Alice Chesterton
1919
Love's Prisoner
Movie Nancy, later Lady Clevela
1919
The Follies Girl
Movie Doll
1919
Toton
Movie Toton/ Yvonne
1918
Heiress For a Day
Movie Helen Thurston