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