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Irene Rich
Born · October 11, 1891
Died · April 22, 1988 (96 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Bio
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
6.1
1948
Fort Apache
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
7.0
1948
New Orleans
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
6.6
1947
Angel and the Badman
Mrs. Worth
6.4
1947
Calendar Girl
Lulu Varden
5.9
1947
This Time for Keeps
Mrs. Bryant
6.0
1942
Three Sons o' Guns
Margaret Patterson
5.0
1941
Keeping Company
Mrs. Thomas
6.4
1940
Queen of the Yukon
Sadie Martin
5.0
1940
The Lady in Question
Michele Morestan
6.6
1940
The Mortal Storm
Mrs. Roth
7.2
1940
Everybody's Hobby
Mrs. Myra Leslie
5.7
1939
The Right Way
Mrs. Martin
0.0
1939
That Certain Age
Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
5.0
1938
Hollywood Handicap
Woman at Racetrack
4.5
1938
Manhattan Tower
Ann Burns
6.0
1932
Her Mad Night
Joan Manners
1.0
1932
Down To Earth
Idy Peters
7.0
1932
The Champ
Linda Carleton
7.1
1931
Wicked
Mrs. Luther
4.7
1931
The Mad Parade
Mrs. Schuyler
6.0
1931
Five and Ten
Jenny Rarick
6.3
1931
Strangers May Kiss
Celia
5.1
1931
Father's Son
Ruth Emory
0.0
1931
Beau Ideal
Lady Brandon
4.4
1931
Check and Double Check
Mrs. Blair
5.3
1930
On Your Back
Julianne
0.0
1930
So This Is London
Mrs. Hiram Draper
7.0
1930
They Had to See Paris
Idy Peters
5.7
1929
The Exalted Flapper
Queen Charlotte of Capra
0.0
1929
Daughters of Desire
0.0
1929
Shanghai Rose
Shanghai Rose
0.0
1929
Ned McCobb's Daughter
Carol
0.0
1928
Fashion News
Self (1929)
5.0
1928
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
0.0
1928
Women They Talk About
Irene Mervin Hughes
0.0
1928
The Perfect Crime
Stella
0.0
1928
Powder My Back
Fritzi Foy
0.0
1928
Beware of Married Men
Myra Martin
1.0
1928
The Silver Slave
Bernice Randall
0.0
1927
The Desired Woman
Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
0.0
1927
The Climbers
Duchess of Arrogan
0.0
1927
Don't Tell the Wife
Mrs. Cartier
0.0
1927
My Official Wife
Hélène, Countess Orloff
0.0
1926
The Honeymoon Express
Mary Lambert
0.0
1926
Silken Shackles
Denise Lake
0.0
1926
Lady Windermere's Fan
Mrs. Erlynne
6.8
1925
The Pleasure Buyers
Joan Wiswell
1.0
1925
Compromise
Joan Trevore
0.0
1925
Eve's Lover
Eva Burnside
0.0
1925
The Man Without a Conscience
Shirley Graves
0.0
1925
My Wife and I
Mrs. James Borden
0.0
1925
A Lost Lady
Marian Forrester
0.0
1924
This Woman
Carol Drayton
0.0
1924
Captain January
Isabelle Morton
6.5
1924
Being Respectable
Suzanne Schuyler
0.0
1924
Cytherea
Fanny Randon
0.0
1924
Beau Brummel
Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
6.8
1924
Pal o' Mine
Julia Montfort
0.0
1924
Boy of Mine
Ruth Latimer
0.0
1923
Lucretia Lombard
Lucretia Morgan
5.0
1923
Defying Destiny
Beth Alden
5.5
1923
Rosita
The Queen
6.5
1923
Michael O'Halloran
Nellie Minturn
0.0
1923
Snowdrift
Kitty (story)
0.0
1923
Brass
Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
3.0
1923
Dangerous Trails
Grace Alderson
0.0
1923
Brawn of the North
Marion Wells
0.0
1922
The Ropin' Fool
The Girl
6.0
1922
A Fool There Was
Mrs. Schuyler
0.0
1922
One Clear Call
Maggie Thornton
0.0
1922
The Trap
The Teacher
5.2
1922
The Poverty of Riches
Mrs. Holt
0.0
1921
Desperate Trails
Mrs. Walker
4.0
1921
A Voice in the Dark
Blanche Walton
0.0
1921
Boys Will Be Boys
Lucy
0.0
1921
A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Carmichael
5.5
1921
Godless Men
'Black Pawl's' Wife
1.0
1920
Stop Thief
Madge Carr
0.0
1920
Jes' Call Me Jim
Miss Butterworth
5.8
1920
The Strange Boarder
Jane Ingraham
0.0
1920
Water, Water, Everywhere
Hope Beecher
0.0
1920
The Street Called Straight
Drusilla Fane
0.0
1920
The Spite Bride
Eileen Moore
0.0
1919
The Blue Bonnet
Martha Drake
0.0
1919
The Lone Star Ranger
Mrs. Laramie
0.0
1919
The Silver Girl
Julia Raymond
0.0
1919
A Man in the Open
Kate
0.0
1919
A Law Unto Herself
Stephanie
0.0
1918
The Girl in His House
Betty Burlingham
0.0
1918