Olive Young was born on June 21, 1907 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Daxia Gan Fengchi (1928), Huoyanshan (1928) and Kule Yuanyang (1926). She was married to Dr. Alfred Lum. She died on October 4, 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA.
Under a Chinese version of her name, she became a major star in China during the late 1920s, making nine silent films there. Billed as "the Chinese Mary Pickford" and projecting an off-screen image of a "flapper," many young Chinese women adopted her as a role model. Her studio's publicity was very vague about her background, and her American origins did not become widely known until after she left China.