Draft:Iris Flores (actress and fashion innovator)

Flores had acted in both films from Mexico and the United States. In 1943, she was in the Mexican film Tres Hermanos, which starred Abel Salazar, was directed by José Benavides, and with music composed by Max Urban. The screenplay was co-written by Salazar and Benavides.{{Cite web |title=FilmAffinity |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/cr/fullcredits.php?movie_id=401075 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=FilmAffinity |language=es-cr}}

Also in the 1943, she was in the U.S. musical comedy film Thank Your Lucky Stars by David Butler. The film was an all-star musical that also functioned as a fundraiser for the Hollywood Canteen, which was a former entertainment venue based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California for military personnel during World War II.{{Cite web |last=Eve |first=The Lady |title=Old Hollywood Haunts, Pt. 3: The Hollywood Canteen, 1942 - 1945 |url=http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2021/08/old-hollywood-haunts-hollywood-canteen.html |access-date=2024-07-25}} Flores was in the Good Night, Good Neighbor scene. The title of the scene was a play on the official U.S. Good Neighbor Policy (Política de Buena Vecindad) of cooperation with Latin America, which was encouraged by President Hoover and President Roosevelt at that time.{{Cite web |title=Good Neighbor Policy {{!}} Hemisphere relations, Latin America, FDR {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Good-Neighbor-Policy-of-the-United-States |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Mcpherson |first=Alan |date=2014 |title=Herbert Hoover, Occupation Withdrawal, and the Good Neighbor Policy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43285441 |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=623–639 |doi=10.1111/psq.12153 |jstor=43285441 |issn=0360-4918}} For the musical number scene, Flores was joined with the following cast members:{{Cite web |title=Nov 20, 1942, page 18 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380794662/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}

• Esperanza Dominquez, daughter of Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez who was President of El Salvador at that time.
• Maruca Sacasa, daughter of Dr. Juan B. Sacasa who was the former President of Nicaragua and the former ambassador from that country to the United States.

Flores had worked with Johnny Weismuller in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), and Gilbert Roland in both South of Monterey and The Gay Cavalier.{{Cite news |title=Film Actress and Husband on Honeymoon Here |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/california/palm-springs/palm-springs-desert-sun/1946/10-11/page-20 |work=Palm Springs Desert Sun}}

Flores held the following patents and/or patent assignments:

Gerard David Schine was a chief consultant for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and drafted into the U.S. Army as a private. The Senate hearings addressed if a member of the Senate subcommittee sought special privileges while in the U.S. Armed Forces.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/05/archives/g-david-schine.html | title=G.David Schine | work=The New York Times | date=5 June 1977 | last1=Haitch | first1=Richard }} However, McCarthy suspected that the Army had drafted Schine in order to interfere with the investigation of if there were members of a communist party in the Department of Defense.{{cite web | url=https://guides.bpl.org/c.php?g=495520&p=5829013 | title=Research Guides: Historic Congressional Committee Hearings and Reports: Army-McCarthy Hearings (1953-1954)

In 1954, the Army-McCarthy hearings requested for Flores to be interviewed about her knowledge of U.S. Army private Gerard David Schine. When asked about her occupation, she replied that was an inventor and that she had sold an invention to I. Newman and Company. She also mentioned that DuPont has been working on the device, with a staff member from the multinational chemical company and a brassiere designer the company had hired.{{Cite web |title=EXECUTIVE SESSIONS OF THE SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (page 225) |url=https://www.senate.gov/about/resources/pdf/mccarthy-hearings-volume5.pdf}} The event had gained national attention in the newspapers of that time.{{Cite news |title=Bra Expert Faces Quiz on Dates with Schine |work=Philadelphia Enquirer}}{{Cite news |title=Schine's Date Attends Hearing |work=Daily News}}{{Cite news |title=Delay Call to Beauty |work=Kansas City Star}}

On October 4, 1946, she married merchandising broker Frederick Tillinghast III. However, they were later divorced on October 15, 1948. The majority of her films were from the time she had been married to Tillinghast III, as shown in the Filmography of this article.

On February 8, 1958, she was married to composer and music publisher Rudolph Edward Schirmer in New York City.{{efn|Schirmer was a composer, poet, and music publishing executive who had 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.Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States...Page 68 (kennesaw.edu) }} While they were married, Schirmer wrote Hymn to the Americas (Himno a las Americas in Spanish), which was for a four-part chorus of mixed voices with a soprano solo and piano accompaniment. The Spanish text was written by his brother-in-law, the brother of Flores, and the former Vice Consul to the Government of Costa Rica, Fernando Flores. It was performed by the Washington National Symphony at the Fourth Inter-American Music Festival in 1968."A SCHIRMER WORK GIVEN AT FESTIVAL; First U.S. Piece Is Offered at Inter-American Series"

The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 Their daughter is Liane Schirmer. They were later divorced in March of 1970.Ancestry.com - California, U.S., Divorce Index, 1966-1984

In 1942, Flores participated in the United Nation Victory Banquet with assisting the American Women's Voluntary Services Victory Bond Booth by leading a family heirloom sword to lead the salute the United Nations. With her was her brother, Fernando Flores, who was Vice Consul of Costa Rica at the time, Mrs. Eastman Markell, Roscoe Moss, Joan Marsh, and Mrs. Frank Willard. The event took place at the Town and Country Shopping Center, which is now the Farmers Market in Los Angeles.Los Angeles Evening Citizen News (Hollywood, California) · Wed, Aug

26, 1942 · Page 11

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After her completed divorce from Schirmer in 1970, Flores went by the name of Iris Schirmer after the divorce. She had national attention when in 1975, as a landlady, she has British musician Elton John for damages to her Beverly Hills, California home after he had completed his rental of the home. The case was tried in Los Angeles Superior Court.Access Newspaper Archive Institutional Version | Search (oclc.org)RPM-1975-10-18.pdf (worldradiohistory.com)

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWAhr_dAcc Good Night, Good Neighbor film clip] from Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)