Born April 5th 1943 in Shanghai, China, of a banker father and a painter mother. The family left China for Taiwan then Hong Kong when the Communists took over. Later immigrated to New York City where Irene attended Mamoroneck Elementary and studied Ballet. She was a teenage dancer in Flower Drum Song, directed by Henry Koster. He gave her her first speaking role as a teenage prostitute in his next film Take her, She's mine starring Jimmy Stewart & Sandra Dee and launched her career in acting ...[Read Story]