Olga Cecilia Knutson
Olga Celeste (April 9, 1888August 31, 1969) trained leopards and Cougar, pumas for performance in circuses, vaudeville and film. She starred in very early animal films for Selig Polyscope Company, Selig Polyscope, and was said (perhaps hyperbolically) to have handled animals for 1,000 films, including the leopard in the Katharine Hepburn film ''Bringing Up Baby''. For most of her career she was associated with the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles. Biography Olga Celeste was born in Sweden; her father was a horse trainer. According to the ''Los Angeles Times'' she ran away at 11 to join a Swedish circus, but eventually returned home. Another report said that she ran away to train horses and after several days her parents found her living in barn and sleeping in a manger. Per a 2020 Swedish-language profile of Olga Celeste, "As a 16-year-old, she had left her parents' home outside Lund in Skåne, at night, to take the and make her dreams come true. Olga was the youngest of seven sibling ...
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