[6] Her father Dr. M. F. Young (Mon Fung Young) was born in California and worked as a doctor, running ads in the newspapers advertising his use of Chinese herbal medicines as cures for female diseases, chronic diseases, sexual weakness, kidney and stomach problems, nervous headaches, and rheumatism.

When Olive was a girl, her parents took her to live in China for "a number of years", staying in Hong Kong.

[8][6] She was to perform in Rouge with them, but ended up with the British American Tobacco Company, where she acted in her first three films.

[6] Where she had starred in movies in China, a young attractive urban woman, in Hollywood she was only able to get typed roles.

However, there is now a partial clip of one of her movies, Daxia Gan Fengchi (大侠甘风池 Dà xiá gānfēngchí) that has been recovered and is online.

The only other film footage of her is in her American movies, Trailin' Trouble, The Man Who Came Back, and The Mask of Fu Manchu.