Biography

Asked whether a stage costume would interfere with her, Olga Desmond answered: "To be completely graceful in a costume or even in a tricot is unthinkable. And I decided to throw off this needless yoke." Objecting to the claims that she excites "base instincts" of the public, the dancer said: "I purposely set a high admission charge for my shows so that the street would not get in, for it has little understanding of pure art, but so that people with broader demands for it would come, people who will look on me as a servitor of art.".

In 1907 she joined a group of artists and appeared as Venus during the group's nine-month tour at the London Pavilion where they put on "plastic representations.

She began her career as a model for different artists before she became a celebrated artist with her vividly performances which oriented to the antique ideals and were normally performed nude.

During the difficult time of Nationak Socialism she attempted suicide. Later she had to work as a cleaner to scratch a living.

From 1915 she was able to gain a foothold in the film business.