Olga Celeste and a leopard, California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Olga Celeste and a leopard, California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

[circa June 6, 1936]

Date

1936-06-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Similar photographs appear with the article, "Stars That No Director Dares Defy!", Los Angeles Times, 07 June 1936: I4.
Olga smiles at the jungle cat as it remains perched on a branch within the cage.
In 1912 William Selig purchased the site that is now Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, at Mission Road and Selig Place, as additional film studio acreage for the housing of wild animals used in his films. The studio was insolvent by 1918 and the zoo was auctioned off in 1923. Over time, it had various names, including Luna Park Zoo, the L.A. Wild Aimal Farms, the California Zoological Gardens, and Zoopark.
A behind-the-scenes look at the animal actors that have roles in popular motion pictures. These animals are well-groomed like any human Hollywood star, and are trained for the profession from a very young age, marked as being highly intelligent. They reside at the California Zoological Gardens on Lincoln Park Boulevard.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 5674 Zoo Olga Celeste (zoo park) - animal trainer (animals used in movies - see 6/7/36 article) June 8, 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Celeste, Olga, 1888-1969

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.068242

Latitude

-118.199599

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Zoos--California--Los Angeles
Cages--California--Los Angeles
Leopards--United States
Animal training--California--Los Angeles