Irene Discography

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In 1962, after Doris Day noticed that Irene seemed upset and nervous, the costume designer confided in her that she was in love with actor Gary Cooper and that he was the only man that she had ever loved. Sadly, Cooper had died in 1961. On November 15, three weeks short of her sixty-second birthday, Irene took a room at the Knickerbocker Hotel, checking in under an assumed name. She cut her wrists but when this did not prove to be immediately fatal, she jumped to her death from her window on the fourteenth floor (In question as there are only ten floors). Her body reportedly ended up on top of the Hotel Awning, where it was discovered later that same night. As per her wishes, she was interred next to her first husband, F. Richard Jones, in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.