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
Angel and the Badman (1947)
as Mrs. Worth
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
as Mrs. Erlynne
Check and Double Check (1930)
as Mrs. Blair
Defying Destiny (1923)
as Beth Alden
The Lady in Question (1940)
as Michele Morestan
The Mortal Storm (1940)
as Mrs. Roth
The Champ (1931)
as Linda Carleton
This Time for Keeps (1942)
as Mrs. Bryant
So This Is London (1930)
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
Just Out of College (1920)
as Miss Jones
Beware of Married Men (1928)
as Myra Martin
One Man in a Million (1921)
as Madame Maureveau
Queen of the Yukon (1940)
as Sadie Martin
The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
as Mrs. Laramie
Five and Ten (1931)
as Jenny Rarick
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925)
as Mrs. John Mannering
Three Sons o' Guns (1941)
as Margaret Patterson
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
as Mrs. Carmichael
A Law Unto Herself (1918)
as Stephanie
Dearie (1927)
as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
This Woman (1924)
as Carol Drayton
A Woman Who Sinned (1924)
as Mrs. Ransdell
They Had to See Paris (1929)
as Idy Peters
The Street Called Straight (1920)
as Drusilla Fane
The Poverty of Riches (1921)
as Mrs. Holt
The Call of Home (1922)
as Alix Lansing
My Wife and I (1925)
as Mrs. James Borden
Everybody's Hobby (1939)
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
Jes' Call Me Jim (1920)
as Miss Butterworth
What the Butler Saw (1924)
as Mrs. Barrington
Craig's Wife (1928)
as Harriet Craig
Women They Talk About (1928)
as Irene Mervin Hughes
Diane of the Green Van (1919)
as Keela
Eve's Lover (1925)
as Eva Burnside
A Fool There Was (1922)
as Mrs. Schuyler
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Lulu Varden
Castles in the Air (1919)
as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
Compromise (1925)
as Joan Trevore
The Trap (1922)
as The Teacher
New Orleans (1947)
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
Hollywood Handicap (1938)
as Woman at Racetrack
That Certain Age (1938)
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928)
as Carol
Daughters of Desire (1929)
Actor
The Silver Slave (1927)
as Bernice Randall
Strangers May Kiss (1931)
as Celia
Don't Tell the Wife (1927)
as Mrs. Cartier
Beau Brummel (1924)
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
A Voice in the Dark (1921)
as Blanche Walton
A Man in the Open (1919)
as Kate
The Man Without a Conscience (1925)
as Shirley Graves
Godless Men (1920)
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
The Ropin' Fool (1922)
as The Girl
Down To Earth (1932)
as Idy Peters
Wolves of the Night (1919)
as Juanita
A Lost Lady (1924)
as Marian Forrester
My Official Wife (1926)
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
Brawn of the North (1922)
as Marion Wells
Her Mad Night (1932)
as Joan Manners
The Strange Boarder (1920)
as Jane Ingraham
The Climbers (1927)
as Duchess of Arrogan
The Yosemite Trail (—)
as Eve Marsham
The Honeymoon Express (1926)
as Mary Lambert
Boys Will Be Boys (1921)
as Lucy
Keeping Company (1940)
as Mrs. Thomas
The Mad Parade (1931)
as Mrs. Schuyler
Beau Ideal (1931)
as Lady Brandon
Wicked (1931)
as Mrs. Luther
Yesterday's Wife (1923)
as Megan Daye
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light' (1928)
Actor
Being Respectable (1924)
as Suzanne Schuyler
The Desired Woman (1927)
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
One Clear Call (1922)
as Maggie Thornton
Manhattan Tower (1932)
as Ann Burns
The Girl in His House (1918)
as Betty Burlingham
Michael O'Halloran (1923)
as Nellie Minturn
Her Purchase Price (1919)
as Marda
Father's Son (1931)
as Ruth Emory
Hearts Aflame (1923)
Actor
Pal o' Mine (1924)
as Julia Montfort
Desperate Trails (1921)
as Mrs. Walker
Brass (1923)
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
The Exalted Flapper (1929)
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
Captain January (1924)
as Isabelle Morton
The Spite Bride (1919)
as Eileen Moore
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
as Lucretia Morgan
The Silver Girl (1919)
as Julia Raymond
Boy of Mine (1923)
as Ruth Latimer
Stop Thief (1920)
as Madge Carr
The Perfect Crime (1928)
as Stella
The Pleasure Buyers (1925)
as Joan Wiswell
Water, Water, Everywhere (1920)
as Hope Beecher
Shanghai Rose (1929)
as Shanghai Rose
On Your Back (1930)
as Julianne
Cytherea (1924)
as Fanny Randon
Rosita (1923)
as The Queen
The Right Way (1939)
as Mrs. Martin
Snowdrift (1923)
as Kitty (story)
Powder My Back (1928)
as Fritzi Foy
The Blue Bonnet (1919)
as Martha Drake
Dangerous Trails (1923)
as Grace Alderson
Silken Shackles (1926)
as Denise Lake
The Sneak (1919)
as Enid Granley