Irene Rich
Acting
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
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movieJoan of Arc
1948
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
movieFort Apache
1948
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
movieNew Orleans
1947
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
movieAngel and the Badman
1947
Mrs. Worth
movieCalendar Girl
1947
Lulu Varden
movieThis Time for Keeps
1942
Mrs. Bryant
movieThree Sons o' Guns
1941
Margaret Patterson
movieKeeping Company
1940
Mrs. Thomas
movieQueen of the Yukon
1940
Sadie Martin
movieThe Lady in Question
1940
Michele Morestan
movieThe Mortal Storm
1940
Mrs. Roth
movieEverybody's Hobby
1939
Mrs. Myra Leslie
The Right Way
1939
Mrs. Martin
movieThat Certain Age
1938
Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
movieHollywood Handicap
1938
Woman at Racetrack
movieManhattan Tower
1932
Ann Burns
movieHer Mad Night
1932
Joan Manners
movieDown To Earth
1932
Idy Peters
movieThe Champ
1931
Linda Carleton
movieWicked
1931
Mrs. Luther
movieThe Mad Parade
1931
Mrs. Schuyler
movieFive and Ten
1931
Jenny Rarick
movieFather's Son
1931
Ruth Emory
movieBeau Ideal
1931
Lady Brandon
movieCheck and Double Check
1930
Mrs. Blair
movieOn Your Back
1930
Julianne
movieSo This Is London
1930
Mrs. Hiram Draper
movieThey Had to See Paris
1929
Idy Peters
movieThe Exalted Flapper
1929
Queen Charlotte of Capra
movieShanghai Rose
1929
Shanghai Rose
movieCraig's Wife
1928
Harriet Craig
movieWomen They Talk About
1928
Irene Mervin Hughes
moviePowder My Back
1928
Fritzi Foy
movieBeware of Married Men
1928
Myra Martin
movieThe Silver Slave
1927
Bernice Randall
movieThe Desired Woman
1927
Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
movieDearie
1927
Sylvia Darling/Dearie
movieThe Climbers
1927
Duchess of Arrogan
movieDon't Tell the Wife
1927
Mrs. Cartier
movieMy Official Wife
1926
Hélène, Countess Orloff
movieThe Honeymoon Express
1926
Mary Lambert
Silken Shackles
1926
Denise Lake
movieLady Windermere's Fan
1925
Mrs. Erlynne
movieThe Pleasure Buyers
1925
Joan Wiswell
movieCompromise
1925
Joan Trevore
movieThe Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
Mrs. John Mannering
movieEve's Lover
1925
Eva Burnside
movieThe Man Without a Conscience
1925
Shirley Graves
movieMy Wife and I
1925
Mrs. James Borden
movieA Lost Lady
1924
Marian Forrester
movieThis Woman
1924
Carol Drayton
What the Butler Saw
1924
Mrs. Barrington
A Woman Who Sinned
1924
Mrs. Ransdell
movieCaptain January
1924
Isabelle Morton
movieBeing Respectable
1924
Suzanne Schuyler
movieCytherea
1924
Fanny Randon
movieBeau Brummel
1924
Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
moviePal o' Mine
1924
Julia Montfort
movieBoy of Mine
1923
Ruth Latimer
movieLucretia Lombard
1923
Lucretia Morgan
Defying Destiny
1923
Beth Alden
movieRosita
1923
The Queen
movieYesterday's Wife
1923
Megan Daye
movieMichael O'Halloran
1923
Nellie Minturn
movieSnowdrift
1923
Kitty (story)
movieBrass
1923
Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
Dangerous Trails
1923
Grace Alderson
movieBrawn of the North
1922
Marion Wells
movieThe Ropin' Fool
1922
The Girl
movieA Fool There Was
1922
Mrs. Schuyler
movieOne Clear Call
1922
Maggie Thornton
movieThe Trap
1922
The Teacher
movieThe Call of Home
1922
Alix Lansing
movieThe Poverty of Riches
1921
Mrs. Holt
movieDesperate Trails
1921
Mrs. Walker
movieA Voice in the Dark
1921
Blanche Walton
movieA Tale of Two Worlds
1921
Mrs. Carmichael
movieOne Man in a Million
1921
Madame Maureveau
movieJust Out of College
1920
Miss Jones
movieGodless Men
1920
'Black Pawl's' Wife
movieStop Thief
1920
Madge Carr
movieJes' Call Me Jim
1920
Miss Butterworth
movieThe Strange Boarder
1920
Jane Ingraham
movieWater, Water, Everywhere
1920
Hope Beecher
movieThe Street Called Straight
1920
Drusilla Fane
movieThe Spite Bride
1919
Eileen Moore
movieWolves of the Night
1919
Juanita
The Sneak
1919
Enid Granley
movieThe Blue Bonnet
1919
Martha Drake
movieThe Lone Star Ranger
1919
Mrs. Laramie
movieCastles in the Air
1919
Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
movieThe Silver Girl
1919
Julia Raymond
movieA Law Unto Herself
1918
Stephanie
movieThe Girl in His House
1918
Betty Burlingham
movieThe Yosemite Trail
Eve Marsham