Actress, Egyptian princess. She was born in Iowa, though she was almost entirely brought up in Oakland, California. Her father was a San Francisco furniture salesman; her brother Orral Humphrey was a silent-film actor and film director. She graduated with the Class of 1893 from the Snell Seminary in Oakland, where she was celebrated for her ability at dramatic recitation, and in 1894 attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston, after this beginning a professional acting career. Humphrey toured in stage companies in Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain, in "The Prodigal Son" (1906) and "The Little Gray Lady" (1906), among other plays. She was married to fellow stage actor Edwin Mordant while they toured together. While performing on the London stage, she caught the eye of Prince Ibrahim Hassan, a cousin to Abbas II of Egypt. Their 1911 marriage in a London registrar's office was witnessed by American Vice-consul "Richard Westacott and the Count de Nevers. She became known in the society pages as "the Princess Hassan." The couple separated after a few months, however, as Ola found herself trapped in the palace and alleging physical abuse. She asked the U.S. State Department to help, in exchange for relinquishing her title. However, the American government felt powerless to intervene, claiming that she had given up her citizenship by marrying a foreign royal. The prince refused to grant a divorce, and before the matter could be settled, he died in Barcelona in 1918. Because Ola was his widow, the British government settled her case for one million dollars, though legal challenges by the Prince's family continued for years afterward. She returned to the U.S. and appeared in three silent films: "Under the Crescent" (1915), a fictionalized version of her marriage to the Prince; "Missing" (1918); and "Coax Me" (1919). She married an English military officer in 1920. After being widowed again, she donated Egyptian artifacts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sadly, she spent the final two years of her life on welfare in a small New York apartment, her fortune lost to lawyers and the Prince's relatives.