Desha Delteil

In 1920 she appeared in a solo short movie, The Bubble, which was about a young girl dancing with a balloon, and was an uncredited cabaret dancer in the 1924 motion picture Isn't Life Wonderful.

[1] Delteil modeled for other artists as well, being highly valued for her ability to hold difficult poses for extended periods.

In the 1930s she and Myrio performed at a number of nightclubs in Paris and London, and their dance interpretation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the Kit-Cat Club was recorded in a Pathé motion picture review.

Jean had a small house in the Dordogne where Maurice Chevalier, with friends Baker and Nita Raya, were hidden from German invaders during World War II.

After the war, Desha and her husband established the first classical dance school in the French town of Bergerac, Dordogne.