that's all gone now, the old Hollywood

Olive Thomas photographed by Campbell Studios, 1916

Olive hanging out with animals on set.

Kay Francis in The Virtuous Sin

Deception (1946, dir. Irving Rapper)

Show Girl (1928)

Veronica Lake / publicity photo for Paramount, 1941.

Gary Cooper, 1931

Schmutziges Geld (Richard Eichberg, 1928)

Tragically, Harriet, like her sister, would live a short life. She passed away at the tender age of 12 on March 25, 1926, after succumbing to a sudden flu and acute appendicitis.

Olive Thomas photographed on the set of Everybody’s Sweetheart. This would be her final film; it premiered posthumously, almost a month after her passing in Paris, France.

April 25th, 1916: Olive Thomas featured in an ad for player pianos.

May 1915: Olive Thomas photographed for Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies and Frolics” ball, held at the new Amsterdam Roof. The stage show included a dancing and entertainment performances by thirty women who were touted as “the world’s most beautiful.”

Madge Evans 1938, photo Ray Jones

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Olive Thomas was born on October 20, 1894 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Happy Birthday, Ollie!