
Alma Tell
Born
March 27, 1898
Died
December 29, 1937 (39 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For

Imitation of Life
Mrs. Craven (uncredited)
1934

Love Comes Along
Carlotta
1930

Saturday's Children
Florrie
1929

San Francisco Nights
Ruth
1928

The Silent Command
Mrs. Richard Decatur
1923

Broadway Rose
Barbara Royce
1922

The Iron Trail
Eliza Appleton
1921

Paying the Piper
Marcia Marillo
1921

The Right to Love
Lady Edith
1920

On with the Dance
Lady Tremelyn
1920

Nearly Married
Gertrude Robinson
1917

The Smugglers
Mrs. Watts
1916