Olive Stokes Mix

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Olive Stokes Mix
A woman with fair skin, wearing a dark cloche hat low over her forehead
Olive Stokes Mix, from a 1928 newspaper
Born
Olive Stokes

April 10, 1887
Indian Territory, Oklahoma, US
DiedNovember 1, 1972
Los Angeles, California, US
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1909; div. 1917)​
ChildrenRuth Mix

Olive Stokes Mix (April 10, 1887 – November 1, 1972) was an American actress.

Early life[]

Release flier for The Cowboy's Best Girl (1912), with Olive Mix in the cast

Olive M. Stokes was born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, the daughter of James Henry Stokes (1861–1904)[1] and Georgia Ann Russell (1868–1939),[2] later known as Georgia Brown.[3] Her parents ran a ranch near Dewey, Oklahoma. Her mother was Cherokee,[4] and Olive Stokes was enrolled as "Cherokee by blood". She graduated from Ward-Belmont College in 1907.[4][5]

Career[]

As a young woman, Olive Stokes helped run her family's ranch and her mother's boarding house for oil workers.[2] Mix's screen credits were mostly in Western short films, and included roles in Dad's Girls (1911), Told in Colorado (1911), Why the Sheriff is a Bachelor (1911), A Cowboy's Best Girl (1912), The Scapegoat (1912), The Diamond S Ranch (1912), Saved from the Vigilantes (1913), and  [it] (1917).[6]

Release flier for The Scapegoat (1922), with Olive Mix in the cast

In her later years, Mix wrote a biography of her late ex-husband, The Fabulous Tom Mix (1957),[7][8] and invested in oil wells[9] and mines, including a uranium mine in Utah.[4] In 1962 she was interviewed in a CBC Radio program, The Unreal West.[10][11]

Personal life[]

Olive Stokes married western film star Tom Mix in 1909, as his third wife (or second, by his count);[12] they divorced in 1917.[13][14] They had a daughter, Ruth Mix (1912–1977),[15] who also acted in Westerns.[4][16] Olive Stokes Mix died in 1972, aged 85 years, in Los Angeles, California. Her grandson Hick Hill was an actor in 1960 Westerns.

References[]

  1. ^ "Movie Actor Called Cruel". The Spokesman-Review. 1916-09-23. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Droege, Emily (June 7, 2017). "Stokes Cemetery one of the oldest in Washington County". Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  3. ^ "Pioneer Woman Died Saturday Afternoon". Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. 1938-04-25. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b c d Bynum, Kay (1955-12-29). "Ex-Wife of Tom Mix Visits Daughter Here". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. p. 15. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Olive Stokes Mix is Lost College Chum". Clarion-Ledger. 1931-01-10. p. 14. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "'The Single Code' New Horsley Subject". The Moving Picture World. 31: 2134. March 31, 1917.
  7. ^ Olive Stokes Mix (1957). The Fabulous Tom Mix. Media History Digital Library. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall.
  8. ^ "Books Noted in Passing". The Charlotte News. 1957-09-28. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Mrs. Olive Stokes Mix Visiting Old Friends". Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. 1937-10-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Gallagher, Tag (1986). John Ford: The Man and His Films. University of California Press. p. 546. ISBN 978-0-520-06334-1.
  11. ^ "Radio Reviews". Variety. 227: 86. July 25, 1962 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ "Crowd Cheers Tom Mix talks in Adams Court". The Greenwood Commonwealth. 1931-01-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Mix, Thomas Edwin". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  14. ^ "Mix Fights Giving Fund to Ex-Wife". The Los Angeles Times. 1928-02-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Mixs' Have Big Day in Court as Row Over Daughter's $1500 Month is Heard". Los Angeles Evening Express. 1928-02-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Ruth Mix Weds Bronco Buster". Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. 1935-06-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Newspapers.com.

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