Irene Rich
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From Wikipedia Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies, as well as radio. Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother: She was the mother of Gail Russell's character in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman (1947); in John Ford's cavalry story Fort Apache (1948) she portrayed Mrs. O'Rourke, the wife of Sergeant O'Rourke (Ward Bond). In the 1930s, Rich did much work in radio. From 1933 to 1944, she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized mini-dramas, Dear John (aka The Irene Rich Show). Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon (who later played Lucille Ball's apoplectic boss "Mr. Mooney" on TV). Rich appeared in stage productions, including Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) which starred George M. Cohan, the creator of the play, and later As the Girls Go in 1948. Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard.
Known for
Credits
Fort Apache (1948)
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Dearie (1927)
as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
The Lady in Question (1940)
as Michele Morestan
Defying Destiny (1923)
as Beth Alden
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
as Mrs. Erlynne
Compromise (1925)
as Joan Trevore
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Check and Double Check (1930)
as Mrs. Blair
The Ropin' Fool (1922)
as The Girl
A Lost Lady (1924)
as Marian Forrester
The Mortal Storm (1940)
as Mrs. Roth
What the Butler Saw (1924)
as Mrs. Barrington
So This Is London (1930)
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
Five and Ten (1931)
as Jenny Rarick
Everybody's Hobby (1939)
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
Craig's Wife (1928)
as Harriet Craig
Beware of Married Men (1928)
as Myra Martin
The Trap (1922)
as The Teacher
Her Purchase Price (1919)
as Marda
Down To Earth (1932)
as Idy Peters
The Call of Home (1922)
as Alix Lansing
Angel and the Badman (1947)
as Mrs. Worth
Michael O'Halloran (1923)
as Nellie Minturn
The Honeymoon Express (1926)
as Mary Lambert
Yesterday's Wife (1923)
as Megan Daye
A Law Unto Herself (1918)
as Stephanie
This Time for Keeps (1942)
as Mrs. Bryant
The Silver Slave (1927)
as Bernice Randall
Pal o' Mine (1924)
as Julia Montfort
Just Out of College (1920)
as Miss Jones
New Orleans (1947)
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
Diane of the Green Van (1919)
as Keela
A Woman Who Sinned (1924)
as Mrs. Ransdell
The Strange Boarder (1920)
as Jane Ingraham
My Official Wife (1926)
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
The Champ (1931)
as Linda Carleton
One Man in a Million (1921)
as Madame Maureveau
Boy of Mine (1923)
as Ruth Latimer
Daughters of Desire (1929)
Actor
The Yosemite Trail (—)
as Eve Marsham
That Certain Age (1938)
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
Her Mad Night (1932)
as Joan Manners
Hollywood Handicap (1938)
as Woman at Racetrack
My Wife and I (1925)
as Mrs. James Borden
Eve's Lover (1925)
as Eva Burnside
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925)
as Mrs. John Mannering
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
as Celia
The Silver Girl (1919)
as Julia Raymond
Captain January (1924)
as Isabelle Morton
One Clear Call (1922)
as Maggie Thornton
Castles in the Air (1919)
as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Lulu Varden
Beau Brummel (1924)
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
The Right Way (1939)
as Mrs. Martin
This Woman (1924)
as Carol Drayton
Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928)
as Carol
The Exalted Flapper (1929)
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
A Fool There Was (1922)
as Mrs. Schuyler
Wicked (1931)
as Mrs. Luther
Rosita (1923)
as The Queen
Manhattan Tower (1932)
as Ann Burns
The Climbers (1927)
as Duchess of Arrogan
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
as Mrs. Carmichael
Father's Son (1931)
as Ruth Emory
Cytherea (1924)
as Fanny Randon
They Had to See Paris (1929)
as Idy Peters
Wolves of the Night (1919)
as Juanita
Silken Shackles (1926)
as Denise Lake
The Desired Woman (1927)
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
The Sneak (1919)
as Enid Granley
Hearts Aflame (1923)
Actor
Godless Men (1920)
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
Beau Ideal (1931)
as Lady Brandon
The Pleasure Buyers (1925)
as Joan Wiswell
The Mad Parade (1931)
as Mrs. Schuyler
Jes' Call Me Jim (1920)
as Miss Butterworth
Queen of the Yukon (1940)
as Sadie Martin
Brass (1923)
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
as Lucretia Morgan
The Girl in His House (1918)
as Betty Burlingham
Three Sons o' Guns (1941)
as Margaret Patterson
The Man Without a Conscience (1925)
as Shirley Graves
Keeping Company (1940)
as Mrs. Thomas
Brawn of the North (1922)
as Marion Wells
Water, Water, Everywhere (1920)
as Hope Beecher
A Voice in the Dark (1921)
as Blanche Walton
Don't Tell the Wife (1927)
as Mrs. Cartier
On Your Back (1930)
as Julianne
Being Respectable (1924)
as Suzanne Schuyler
The Perfect Crime (1928)
as Stella
The Spite Bride (1919)
as Eileen Moore
The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
as Mrs. Laramie
Dangerous Trails (1923)
as Grace Alderson
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light' (1928)
Actor
Boys Will Be Boys (1921)
as Lucy
Shanghai Rose (1929)
as Shanghai Rose
The Poverty of Riches (1921)
as Mrs. Holt
The Blue Bonnet (1919)
as Martha Drake
Stop Thief (1920)
as Madge Carr
The Street Called Straight (1920)
as Drusilla Fane
Desperate Trails (1921)
as Mrs. Walker
Women They Talk About (1928)
as Irene Mervin Hughes
Powder My Back (1928)
as Fritzi Foy
A Man in the Open (1919)
as Kate
Snowdrift (1923)
as Kitty (story)