Name
Irene Rich
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1891-10-11
Deathday
1988-04-22 (97 years old)
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Biography
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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Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the mi...
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A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have d...
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In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years Wa...
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John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his famil...
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The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early ...
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A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons wit...
- 1940 The Mortal Storm as Mrs. Roth
- 1947 Angel and the Badman as Mrs. Worth
- 1921 Desperate Trails as Mrs. Walker
- 1929 Daughters of Desire
- 1919 The Lone Star Ranger as Mrs. Laramie
- 1931 The Champ as Linda Carleton
- 1948 Fort Apache as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
- 1921 The Poverty of Riches as Mrs. Holt
- 1928 The Perfect Crime as Stella
- 1927 Don't Tell the Wife as Mrs. Cartier
- 1918 The Girl in His House as Betty Burlingham
- 1928 Ned McCobb's Daughter as Carol
- 1923 Snowdrift as Kitty (story)
- 1931 Five and Ten as Jenny Rarick
- 1947 New Orleans as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
- 1940 The Lady in Question as Michele Morestan
- 1919 The Blue Bonnet as Martha Drake
- 1921 A Voice in the Dark as Blanche Walton
- 1942 This Time for Keeps as Mrs. Bryant
- 1925 Lady Windermere's Fan as Mrs. Erlynne
- 1929 Shanghai Rose as Shanghai Rose
- 1924 Beau Brummel as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
- 1920 Stop Thief as Madge Carr
- 1931 Beau Ideal as Lady Brandon
- 1947 Calendar Girl as Lulu Varden
- 1922 The Ropin' Fool as The Girl
- 1932 Her Mad Night as Joan Manners
- 1932 Manhattan Tower as Ann Burns
- 1924 Captain January as Isabelle Morton
- 1932 Down To Earth as Idy Peters
- 1940 Queen of the Yukon as Sadie Martin
- 1939 Everybody's Hobby as Mrs. Myra Leslie
- 1929 They Had to See Paris as Idy Peters
- 1923 Lucretia Lombard as Lucretia Morgan
- 1938 Hollywood Handicap as Woman at Racetrack
- 1928 Craig's Wife as Harriet Craig
- 1931 Strangers May Kiss as Celia
- 1920 Water, Water, Everywhere as Hope Beecher
- 1920 Jes' Call Me Jim as Miss Butterworth
- 1921 Boys Will Be Boys as Lucy
- 1921 A Tale of Two Worlds as Mrs. Carmichael
- 1924 Cytherea as Fanny Randon
- 1927 The Desired Woman as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
- 1931 The Mad Parade as Mrs. Schuyler
- 1923 Defying Destiny as Beth Alden
- 1926 Silken Shackles as Denise Lake
- 1940 Keeping Company as Mrs. Thomas
- 1941 Three Sons o' Guns as Margaret Patterson
- 1923 Rosita as The Queen
- 1925 Compromise as Joan Trevore
- 1930 Check and Double Check as Mrs. Blair
- 1922 The Trap as The Teacher
- 1938 That Certain Age as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
- 1930 On Your Back as Julianne
- 1918 A Law Unto Herself as Stephanie
- 1920 The Street Called Straight as Drusilla Fane
- 1923 Michael O'Halloran as Nellie Minturn
- 1931 Father's Son as Ruth Emory
- 1926 The Honeymoon Express as Mary Lambert
- 1928 Women They Talk About as Irene Mervin Hughes
- 1920 Godless Men as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
- 1919 A Man in the Open as Kate
- 1923 Brass as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
- 1931 Wicked as Mrs. Luther
- 1926 My Official Wife as Hélène, Countess Orloff
- 1922 Brawn of the North as Marion Wells
- 1930 So This Is London as Mrs. Hiram Draper
- 1919 The Spite Bride as Eileen Moore
- 1924 Being Respectable as Suzanne Schuyler
- 1922 One Clear Call as Maggie Thornton
- 1923 Dangerous Trails as Grace Alderson
- 1927 The Climbers as Duchess of Arrogan
- 1928 Beware of Married Men as Myra Martin
- 1939 The Right Way as Mrs. Martin
- 1923 Boy of Mine as Ruth Latimer
- 1924 This Woman as Carol Drayton
- 1925 The Pleasure Buyers as Joan Wiswell
- 1925 The Man Without a Conscience as Shirley Graves
- 1922 A Fool There Was as Mrs. Schuyler
- 1924 Pal o' Mine as Julia Montfort
- 1919 The Silver Girl as Julia Raymond
- 1925 My Wife and I as Mrs. James Borden
- 1948 Joan of Arc as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
- 1927 The Silver Slave as Bernice Randall
- 1925 Eve's Lover as Eva Burnside
- 1920 The Strange Boarder as Jane Ingraham
- 1928 Powder My Back as Fritzi Foy
- 1924 A Lost Lady as Marian Forrester
- 1929 The Exalted Flapper as Queen Charlotte of Capra
- 1924 What the Butler Saw as Mrs. Barrington
- 1919 Wolves of the Night as Juanita
- 1919 The Sneak as Enid Granley
- 1919 Diane of the Green Van as Keela
- 1923 Hearts Aflame
- 1928 Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
- 1920 Just Out of College as Miss Jones
- 1919 Her Purchase Price as Marda
- Soon The Yosemite Trail as Eve Marsham
- 1925 The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted as Mrs. John Mannering
- 1922 The Call of Home as Alix Lansing
- 1921 One Man in a Million as Madame Maureveau
- 1923 Yesterday's Wife as Megan Daye
- 1919 Castles in the Air as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
- 1927 Dearie as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
- 1924 A Woman Who Sinned as Mrs. Ransdell
