Olga Celeste (April 9, 1888 – August 31, 1969) trained leopards and pumas for performance in circuses, vaudeville and film. She starred in very early animal films for Selig Polyscope, and was said to have handled animals for 1,000 films, including the leopard in the Katharine Hepburn film Bringing Up Baby. 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 siblings and the only naughty one. Her older sisters and brothers were all well-behaved and disappeared through life and into the coffin without anyone taking much notice of them." One 16-year-old Olga Cecelia Knutson of Lund, Skåne Län departed Mälmo for Chicago on April 15, 1904. She took the ship from Liverpool to Boston, arriving April 30; her contact in the U.S. was her sister Edith Knutson of Chicago. According to Frank Buck, Princess Celeste ran away at age 14 or 15 to join a circus operating in Chicago's Riverside Park. Her start in show business supposedly came in 1904 when she lived with her older sister in Chicago. She was hired by Big Otto Breitkreutz and was taught how to run a dog and pony show. According to other accounts she was game to work with horses when the regular trainer was injured and that launched her career. Big Otto's operation was acquired by film producer William Selig and she continued on as a "lion tamer" for that outfit. Around 1908 she appeared opposite Charles B. Murphy in a motion picture short called The Lion's Bride. It was reportedly premiered in Riverview Park and caused a sensation. Murphy and Olga Celeste were married around 1910 but later divorced; the couple had no children. She was occasionally credited as Olga Celeste Murphy during the teens. Olga Celeste also starred in Selig's 1909 (directed by Francis Boggs), and worked as a stunt double for Kathlyn Williams in Selig's groundbreaking serial The Adventures of