[2] Deste studied dancing with Mary Wigman in Berlin but changed to acting.

After he put her under personal contract, he brought her to the United States and directed her films for Columbia Pictures.

[3] Deste was married to Baron Gottfried von Meyern-Hohenberg, and they were divorced in 1930.

[2] She authored the book Come, Take My Hand as Luli Kollsman, published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce (c.1949), New York, 1949.

In 1944 Deste married Paul Kollsman in New York City; she died in 1951.