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Alma Tell

Alma Tell

Born: 1898-03-27 • New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Filmography
Imitation of Life poster
Imitation of Life
1934 • Mrs. Craven (uncredited)
Love Comes Along poster
Love Comes Along
1930 • Carlotta
Saturday's Children poster
Saturday's Children
1929 • Florrie
San Francisco Nights poster
San Francisco Nights
1928 • Ruth
The Silent Command poster
The Silent Command
1923 • Mrs. Richard Decatur
Broadway Rose poster
Broadway Rose
1922 • Barbara Royce
The Iron Trail poster
The Iron Trail
1921 • Eliza Appleton
Paying the Piper poster
Paying the Piper
1921 • Marcia Marillo
The Right to Love poster
The Right to Love
1920 • Lady Edith
On with the Dance poster
On with the Dance
1920 • Lady Tremelyn
Nearly Married poster
Nearly Married
1917 • Gertrude Robinson
The Smugglers poster
The Smugglers
1916 • Mrs. Watts