Irene Rich
Born
October 11, 1891
Died
April 22, 1988 (96 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
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.
Joan of Arc
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
1948
Fort Apache
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
1948
New Orleans
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
1947
Angel and the Badman
Mrs. Worth
1947
Calendar Girl
Lulu Varden
1947
This Time for Keeps
Mrs. Bryant
1942
Three Sons o' Guns
Margaret Patterson
1941
Keeping Company
Mrs. Thomas
1940
Queen of the Yukon
Sadie Martin
1940
The Lady in Question
Michele Morestan
1940
The Mortal Storm
Mrs. Roth
1940
Everybody's Hobby
Mrs. Myra Leslie
1939
The Right Way
Mrs. Martin
1939
That Certain Age
Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
1938
Hollywood Handicap
Woman at Racetrack
1938
Manhattan Tower
Ann Burns
1932
Her Mad Night
Joan Manners
1932
Down To Earth
Idy Peters
1932
The Champ
Linda Carleton
1931
Wicked
Mrs. Luther
1931
The Mad Parade
Mrs. Schuyler
1931
Five and Ten
Jenny Rarick
1931
Strangers May Kiss
Celia
1931
Father's Son
Ruth Emory
1931
Beau Ideal
Lady Brandon
1931
Check and Double Check
Mrs. Blair
1930
On Your Back
Julianne
1930
So This Is London
Mrs. Hiram Draper
1930
They Had to See Paris
Idy Peters
1929
The Exalted Flapper
Queen Charlotte of Capra
1929
Daughters of Desire
1929
Shanghai Rose
Shanghai Rose
1929
Ned McCobb's Daughter
Carol
1928
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
1928
Women They Talk About
Irene Mervin Hughes
1928
The Perfect Crime
Stella
1928
Powder My Back
Fritzi Foy
1928
Beware of Married Men
Myra Martin
1928
The Silver Slave
Bernice Randall
1927
The Desired Woman
Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
1927
The Climbers
Duchess of Arrogan
1927
Don't Tell the Wife
Mrs. Cartier
1927
My Official Wife
Hélène, Countess Orloff
1926
The Honeymoon Express
Mary Lambert
1926
Silken Shackles
Denise Lake
1926
Lady Windermere's Fan
Mrs. Erlynne
1925
The Pleasure Buyers
Joan Wiswell
1925
Compromise
Joan Trevore
1925
Eve's Lover
Eva Burnside
1925
The Man Without a Conscience
Shirley Graves
1925
My Wife and I
Mrs. James Borden
1925
A Lost Lady
Marian Forrester
1924
This Woman
Carol Drayton
1924
What the Butler Saw
Mrs. Barrington
1924
Captain January
Isabelle Morton
1924
Being Respectable
Suzanne Schuyler
1924
Cytherea
Fanny Randon
1924
Beau Brummel
Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
1924
Pal o' Mine
Julia Montfort
1924
Boy of Mine
Ruth Latimer
1923
Lucretia Lombard
Lucretia Morgan
1923
Defying Destiny
Beth Alden
1923
Rosita
The Queen
1923
Michael O'Halloran
Nellie Minturn
1923
Snowdrift
Kitty (story)
1923
Brass
Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
1923
Dangerous Trails
Grace Alderson
1923
Brawn of the North
Marion Wells
1922
The Ropin' Fool
The Girl
1922
A Fool There Was
Mrs. Schuyler
1922
One Clear Call
Maggie Thornton
1922
The Trap
The Teacher
1922
The Poverty of Riches
Mrs. Holt
1921
Desperate Trails
Mrs. Walker
1921
A Voice in the Dark
Blanche Walton
1921
Boys Will Be Boys
Lucy
1921
A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Carmichael
1921
Godless Men
'Black Pawl's' Wife
1920
Stop Thief
Madge Carr
1920
Jes' Call Me Jim
Miss Butterworth
1920
The Strange Boarder
Jane Ingraham
1920
Water, Water, Everywhere
Hope Beecher
1920
The Street Called Straight
Drusilla Fane
1920
The Spite Bride
Eileen Moore
1919
Wolves of the Night
Juanita
1919
The Blue Bonnet
Martha Drake
1919
The Lone Star Ranger
Mrs. Laramie
1919
The Silver Girl
Julia Raymond
1919
A Man in the Open
Kate
1919
A Law Unto Herself
Stephanie
1918
The Girl in His House
Betty Burlingham
1918