Dagmar Desmond — Elinor Picks Another (1925) 🇺🇸

Because she looks like the real thing — for the simple reason that she is just that — Dagmar Desmond is making her debut in the films as a society matron attended by the gracious kindness of fate.

Mrs. Dagmar Friselle — for that is her own name — returned recently from her annual trip abroad, contemplating a resumption of her social duties in Fresno, California. But fate decided that such a beautiful willowy brunette should be out in the spotlight and, through the medium of Elinor Glyn, presented her with the opportunity to play Odette in “Man and Maid.”

Within the span of a few hours her signature was affixed to a contract, her name was changed to Desmond and she acted her first scene! She has found the work so interesting that she plans to continue, so the pink-teas of Fresno will miss her charming presence.

The new Glyn discovery has spent much time in Italy, where she studied painting.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, May 1925