Olive Borden
Olive Borden was beautiful and talented but she became one of Hollywood's most tragic tales. She came to Hollywood in 1922 with her widowed mother. Olive started her career as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was named a Wampas baby star in 1925. She made eleven films at Fox studios where she earned $1,500 a week. Olive became a popular on screen vamp and her jet black hair was her trademark. She hired Jimmie Fiddler as her agent and was nicknamed "The Joy Girl". Olive lived a lavish lifestyle with limos, mansions, servants, and a dozen fur coats. In 1927 she left Fox after a salary dispute. She later worked for Columbia and RKO studios. Like many other silent stars she had a hard time making the transition to talkies. Her last film was made in 1934. There were two failed marriages and a broken engagement to actor George O'Brien. During World War 2 she worked as a nurse. By the age of 41 she was a penniless alcoholic. Her final years were spent in a Los Angeles mission. Sadly many of Olive Borden's silent films have been lost and this lovely star has been forgotten.
Date of Death 1 October 1947, Los Angeles, California (stomach ailment)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.38 |
Birthday | 1906-07-14 |
Place of Birth | Richmond - Virginia - USA |
Also Known As | Olive Marie Borden, |
1926
3 Bad Men
6.8/38
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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3 Bad Men
1934
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
2.9/6
A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old con...
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1926
Fig Leaves
5.8/21
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompt...
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Fig Leaves
1927
The Monkey Talks
5.6/4
In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a t...
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The Monkey Talks
1929
Half Marriage
5.2/4
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home f...
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Half Marriage
1929
Dance Hall
3.8/4
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
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Dance Hall
1924
Too Many Mammas
4.4/5
Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
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Too Many Mammas
1930
The Social Lion
6/1
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most pr...
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The Social Lion
1933
The Mild West
0/0
This musical short focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.
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The Mild West
1926
Yellow Fingers
0/0
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering...
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Yellow Fingers
1925
Should Husbands Be Watched?
6/1
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs....
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Should Husbands Be Watched?
1927
The Joy Girl
5/1
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an hei...
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The Joy Girl
1924
Just a Good Guy
0/0
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
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Just a Good Guy
1933
Gobs of Fun
0/0
Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a...
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Gobs of Fun
1933
Hotel Variety
0/0
A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....
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Hotel Variety
1934
The Inventors
0/0
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The Inventors
1924
Neck and Neck
0/0
Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
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Neck and Neck
1925
Good Morning, Nurse
0/0
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
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Good Morning, Nurse
1930
Hello Sister
1/1
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
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Hello Sister
1925
Tell It to a Policeman
0/0
Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life...
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Tell It to a Policeman
1925
The Happy Warrior
0/0
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
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The Happy Warrior
1929
Love In The Desert
0/0
Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (...
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Love In The Desert
1925
The Overland Limited
0/0
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
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The Overland Limited
1926
The Yankee Señor
0/0
A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty.
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The Yankee Señor
1928
Virgin Lips
1/1
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is...
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Virgin Lips
1929
The Eternal Woman
0/0
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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The Eternal Woman
1926
The Country Beyond
0/0
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto t...
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The Country Beyond
1933
Leave It to Me
0/0
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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Leave It to Me
1932
The Divorce Racket
0/0
Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
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The Divorce Racket
1928
The Albany Night Boat
0/0
Steve falls in love with Ken's beautiful wife.
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The Albany Night Boat
1928
Stool Pigeon
0/0
An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality, he is only stealing to give his mother a better li...
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Stool Pigeon
1929
Wedding Rings
0/0
Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
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Wedding Rings
1928
Gang War
6/1
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with h...
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Gang War
1926
My Own Pal
0/0
My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
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My Own Pal
1924
Sweet Daddy
0/0
Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the stati...
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Sweet Daddy
1924
Why Men Work
0/0
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
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Why Men Work
1924
The Royal Razz
0/0
A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.
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The Royal Razz
1932
Moonlight and Cactus
0/0
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
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Moonlight and Cactus
1929
The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
0/0
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, D...
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
1927
The Secret Studio
0/0
Ambitious Rosemary Merton ( Olive Borden ), agrees to pose in the studio of Larry Kane ( Ben Bard ), a depraved artist, but she refuses to do so in th...
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