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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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Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

Sigrid Holmquist

2010

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Self (archive footage)

Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

2003

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Mary

Everybody's Sweetheart

1920

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Kitty McCarthy

Darling Mine

1920

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Genevieve 'Ginger' King

The Flapper

1920

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Nancy Sherwin

Youthful Folly

1920

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Gloria Dawn

Footlights and Shadows

1920

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Flotsam

Out Yonder

1919

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Ivis Benson

The Glorious Lady

1919

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Tessa Doyle

The Spite Bride

1919

Credits

Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2010

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Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

as Self (archive footage)

2003

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Everybody's Sweetheart

as Mary

1920

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Darling Mine

as Kitty McCarthy

1920

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The Flapper

as Genevieve 'Ginger' King

1920

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Youthful Folly

as Nancy Sherwin

1920

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Footlights and Shadows

as Gloria Dawn

1920

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Out Yonder

as Flotsam

1919

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The Glorious Lady

as Ivis Benson

1919

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The Spite Bride

as Tessa Doyle

1919

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Prudence on Broadway

as Prudence

1919

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Upstairs and Down

as Alice Chesterton

1919

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Love's Prisoner

as Nancy, later Lady Clevela

1919

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The Follies Girl

as Doll

1919

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Toton

as Toton/ Yvonne

1919

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Heiress For a Day

as Helen Thurston

1918

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Limousine Life

as Minnie Wells

1918

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Betty Takes a Hand

as Betty Marshall

1918

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Tom Sawyer

as Choir Member (Uncredited)

1917

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Indiscreet Corinne

as Corinne Chilvers

1917

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Broadway Arizona

as Fritzi Carlyle

1917

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An Even Break

as Claire Curtis

1917

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Madcap Madge

as Madge Flower

1917

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A Girl Like That

as Fannie Brooks

1917

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Beatrice Fairfax

as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)

1916

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