Olive Stokes Mix Explained

Olive Stokes Mix
Birth Name:Olive Stokes
Birth Date:April 10, 1887
Birth Place:Indian Territory, United States
Death Date:November 1, 1972 (aged 85)
Death Place:Los Angeles, California, US
Children:Ruth Mix

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

Early life

Olive M. Stokes was born in Indian Territory, 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 a Cherokee Nation citizen,[4] Olive Stokes was enrolled on the Dawes Rolls as 1/8th "Cherokee by blood", and her father is listed as an "intermarried white" whose enrollment was refused because his marriage took place prior to November 1, 1875. She graduated from Ward-Belmont College in 1907.[5]

Career

As a young woman, Olive Stokes helped run her family's ranch and her mother's boarding house for oil workers. 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 (1917).[6] In her later years, Mix wrote The Fabulous Tom Mix (1957), a biography of her late ex-husband.[7] [8] and invested in oil wells[9] and mines, including a uranium mine in Utah. In 1962 she was interviewed in the CBC Radio program The Unreal West.[10] [11]

Personal life

Olive Stokes married western film star Tom Mix in 1909; she was 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.[16] Olive Stokes Mix died in 1972, aged 85 years, in Los Angeles. Her grandson Hick Hill was an actor in 1960 Westerns.

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Notes and References

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

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