You are so wise, Rancid. If I might mine you for a bit more
information, I was wondering if you (or anyone else in the group)
could clear up a perplexing issue for me? I was recently perusing
an image of Olive and Jack's marriage certificate. They both listed
their age as 22 years. I was under the impression that Jack was
younger than Olive? Am I wrong on this? Also, she would have been
a bit older than 22 in January of 1918, no? Would they have fibbed
about their ages in a legal document of this sort? It's very
confusing. One thing I've noticed in my fondness for silent films
is that it's very difficult to pin down the accurate ages of many of
the players. It seems actresses lied about their ages even then!

Also, I read somewhere that "Memories of Olive" was painted, or at
least completed, after her death in 1920. Is this the work that she
sat for in her lifetime, or was/is there another? I noticed the
case of mistaken identity involving Shirley Vernon. Funny. Also,
was she ever painted by Raphael Kirchner? If so, do any depictions
of Olive by Kirchner exist? I saw one of a Folly that kind of
looked like Olive -- pretty, big blue eyes, dimpled chin, dark hair -
- but no model was named, and it's difficult to know for sure. I
know he was around painting Follies in 1915, and I really enjoy his
work, so was just wondering ...

Thanks for any light anyone could shed on these issues. Sorry if my
questions are elementary. I only discovered Olive (and this group)
very recently.

--- In TheNewCovenOfOliveThomas@yahoogroups.com, "rancidcheesehead"
<rancidcheesehead@...> wrote:
>
> This is also from "A Girl Like That". Ollie had a minor role to
male
> lead Owen Moore (in glasses) as his matchmaking annoying baby
sister.
> Ollie is credited as "Alice Thomas" according to AFI.
>
> A complete synopsis of the story was available through several
> magazines of the era with a few production stills usually
including
> the better known Owen Moore in those dreadful glasses. The
University
> of Wisconsin has a portion of the story on microfilm. It should be
> available in other archives.
>
> The film appears to have been made on the east coast in the spring
> 1916 but not released for over a year. Production information is
> scarce. Famous Players was in some turmoil due to a fire that
> destroyed its New York offices at the time. As Ollie suggested
> in "Work", they never offered her a contract and she moved on.
>
> Your partner in limburger
>
>
> --- In TheNewCovenOfOliveThomas@yahoogroups.com, "kathleenbarbosa"
> <kathleenbarbosa@> wrote:
> >
> > I was looking at some unidentified film stills a few weeks back
and
> > ran across a photograph from c. 1917 that seems undoubtedly to
show
> > Olive Thomas in a yet uknown production. The date and origin of
> the
> > photo are uncertain, as are the identifications of the actors
which
> it
> > portrays, but I think it is certain that it shows Ollie in
> character.
> > If interested, you can find it at
> > www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/unknown.htm
> > p.s. they also have a couple of stills from "A Girl Like That,"
an
> > Olive Thomas vehicle of 1917, elsewhere on the same site. You
can
> > search for it by her name or by the title of the film.
> >
>