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