Olive Borden
Actor · 1906 – 1947 · Richmond - Virginia - USA
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)
Movies23
Movie5.8DramaRomanceA 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 from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
Half Marriage
1929 · 6 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceA spoiled heiress sets her sights on a handsome pilot, but he wants nothing to do with her.
Pajamas
1927 · 1 votes
Movie3.3ActionDramaIn 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 willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
Virgin Lips
1928 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0
Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace
The Inventors
1934 · 1 votes
Movie3.0DramaOlive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
Hello Sister
1930 · 3 votes
MovieActionAdventureZarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
Movie3.9HorrorA black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
1934 · 8 votes
Movie6.9RomanceWesternThree outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
3 Bad Men
1926 · 49 votes
Movie9.0ComedyJimmy 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 station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
Sweet Daddy
1924 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaAn American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.
The Dressmaker from Paris
1925 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Just a Good Guy
1924 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceSocialite Joan Higham visits the bachelor apartment of Floyd Benham and a blackmailer photographs her there. She then tries to protect her reputation and her relationship with Jerome de Witt.
Come to My House
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaSteve falls in love with Ken's beautiful wife.
The Albany Night Boat
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMr. 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. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
Should Husbands Be Watched?
1925 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe 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.
Leave It to Me
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie7.5Comedy
Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to little more than a one-joke anecdote, but oddly enough the joke is more relevant now than it was in 1924: this is the tale of a man who can't run a simple errand in the city because he can't find a parking space.
Don't Park There
1924 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRoland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
Good Morning, Nurse
1925 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCharley Chase has car trouble.
All Wet
1924 · 6 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaSaxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
Gang War
1928 · 2 votes
Movie8.0Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
Wedding Rings
1929 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaAmbitious 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 the nude. However, Kane makes it appear in the portrait that she posed in that manner, and she is disgraced when local newspapers print the picture. She is eventually exonerated by the intervention of Sloan Whitney ( Clifford Holland ), her wealthy young sweetheart; and Rosemary makes the sacrifice of ambition for love.
The Secret Studio
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaAnn Hardy heads to the big city where she falls in love with Ted Wells, but she is heartbroken to learn he is just using her.
Sinners in Love
1928 · 2 votes
- MovieComedyMusic
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.