Olive Thomas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olive Thomas

Silent film actress, model

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1894

Place of Birth: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1920

Profession: screenwriter, actor, stage actor, model, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Olive Thomas (born Oliva R.
Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress and 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 syphillis medication, mercury bichloride, 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 first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals.