Olive Thomas(1894-1920) was born in Pennsylvania.All in all,not an exotic place to be.She spent her uneventful childhood in school,until she dropped out and married at the age of 16.He was evidently not an ideal husband - they divorced after two years, and Olive fled to New York in hopes of a better life.Thomas met actor Jack Pickford, brother of one of the most powerful silent stars Mary Pickford.Thomas eloped with Pickford in1916 in New Jersey.None of their family was present…”When we arrived in Paris her only thought was that she had to buy some dresses and then get back home to complete her picture contracts so that we could settle down to have a home and babies."They went to London to buy some clothes and arrived back in Paris-Thomas took a large quantity of mercury bichloride which was prescribed to Pickford for his venereal disease and which he had also passed on to Thomas.Pickford's doctor had admitted to prescribing the medicine for Pickford in 1917 as a treatment for syphillis.