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