Olive Thomas with Triangle (1917) 🇺🇸

The announcement that Thomas H. Ince has engaged Olive Thomas, the popular young star of the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic and featured beauty of a late edition of the Follies, to create important roles in the forthcoming Kay Bee productions, has aroused decided interest.

Miss Thomas is now in California, and has already been assigned the lead in one of the first plays that Ince will do under his new arrangement with Triangle.

Born in Pittsburgh about twenty years ago, Olive Thomas became a reigning favorite on Broadway from the night — or morning — that the Ziegfeld Frolic opened, about two years ago, and with the exception of one season, when she played the January girl in the 1916 premiere of the Follies, she has been the bright star of the revels that have attracted thousands to the top of the New Amsterdam theater.

A brunette of the vivacious type, Miss Thomas has gray eyes and golden brown hair that screens unusually well. Despite all of the attention of which she has been the center, she is said to be as simple and charming in manner as though she had never known success.

Miss Thomas made her screen debut a few months ago with Irene Fenwick in the Paramount production of A Girl Like That, in which she created an excellent impression. Advance notices from the coast intimate that Ince will cast her in roles that will give full play to her sunny and whimsical personality.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1915

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see also Josephine Stevens (1917)