Draft:Iris Flores (actress)

Iris Flores (1921-2016) was born on 8 August 1921 in San Jose, Costa Rica. She was an actress, known for Ride the Pink Horse (1947), Women in the Night (1948), and South of Monterey (1946). She is the granddaughter of the former president of Costa Rica, the late Rafael Yglesias Castro.

Personal life
On February 8, 1958, she was married to Rudolph Edward Schirmer in New York City. Ten years prior to her wedding, Flores played a character in the film Women in the Night who was held captive in a German officer's club during the World War II. Schirmer worked in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service during the war in a unit called the Ritchie Boys, which was a unit that consisted of German-speaking personnel for roles in counterintelligence in Europe, translating key information from German prisoners of war (POW), and related services. Their daughter is Liane Schirmer.