Olga Cook Line (born about 1895, died December 15, 1991) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville performer in the 1920s.
Early life and education Cook was from New York City, the daughter of policeman and athlete Edward Cook and Margaret A. Martin Cook. She graduated from Washington Irving High School, and studied singing in New York with Francis Stuart.
Career Cook began her stage career as a vaudeville performer."With the First Nighters" Goodwin's Weekly (April 26, 1916): 12. She appeared in Broadway musicals, in The Passing Show of 1919, The Midnight Rounders of 1921, Blossom Time (1921–1923), and The Passing Show of 1924. She also sang on radio broadcasts,"Olga Cook Says: 'Studio Attendants are Models; Their Expressions Give You a Key to the Radio Audience" The Wireless Age (July 1922): 31. and played herself in one short silent film, Starland Review No. 4 (1922). She was considered a stage beauty, and her diet and style choices were reported in detail.
Cook returned to vaudeville in 1923, and starred in Gus Edwards' Sunbonnet Sue revue. "Olga Cook is the queen bee of vaudeville singers," noted Washington Daily News in 1923. "No perching and twittering; no fussing and fooling. She strides to the stage, opens her mouth, and beautiful sounds come out. She is a thoro, banging hit, and deservedly." She appeared in The Student Prince in Chicago in 1925, and announced that she was taking "a well-earned rest" from the stage in 1926.
Cook's rest was short-lived. In 1927, she and pianist Eric Zardo toured together, and performed at a midnight benefit in New York City for Mississippi flood victims. In 1928, she starred as Barbara Fritchie in an operetta called My Maryland, when it was produced in Philadelphia, New York, and Hartford. In 1934, she sang at a Daughters of the American Revolution memorial service at a battlefield on Mackinac Island.
.Personal life In December 1925, Cook married G. Keith Line, a "millionaire sportsman" who owned horse stables and riding academies in Illinois, Michigan and Florida. The Lines lived in Chicago in 1930 and 1940.1940 United States census, via Ancestry. She died in 1991.
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White Studio, "Olga Cook as Mitzi in 'Blossom Time'" (1920s photograph), in the Museum of the City of New York