Subject of George Eells' book "Ginger Loretta and Irene Who?". Irene
Bentley is the actress who simply walked away from Hollywood. Despite
Eell's best efforts, he was never able to find any trace of her after
she left Hollywood.
Niece of composer Harry B. Smith; not to be confused with his wife who also
appeared professionally under the name of Irene Bentley (on the New
York stage in the early 1900s), and who died in 1940.