Irene Rich

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: Acting

Born: Buffalo, New York, USA, 1891-10-11

Died: 1988-04-22

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1918	The Girl in His House	Betty Burlingham	0
2	1918	A Law Unto Herself	Stephanie	0
3	1919	A Man in the Open	Kate	0
4	1919	The Silver Girl	Julia Raymond	0
5	1919	The Lone Star Ranger	Mrs. Laramie	0
6	1919	The Blue Bonnet	Martha Drake	0
7	1919	The Spite Bride	Eileen Moore	0
8	1920	The Street Called Straight	Drusilla Fane	0
9	1920	Water, Water, Everywhere	Hope Beecher	0
10	1920	The Strange Boarder	Jane Ingraham	0
11	1920	Jes' Call Me Jim	Miss Butterworth	58
12	1920	Stop Thief	Madge Carr	0
13	1920	Godless Men	'Black Pawl's' Wife	10
14	1921	A Tale of Two Worlds	Mrs. Carmichael	55
15	1921	Boys Will Be Boys	Lucy	0
16	1921	A Voice in the Dark	Blanche Walton	0
17	1921	Desperate Trails	Mrs. Walker	40
18	1921	The Poverty of Riches	Mrs. Holt	0
19	1922	The Trap	The Teacher	52
20	1922	One Clear Call	Maggie Thornton	0
21	1922	A Fool There Was	Mrs. Schuyler	0
22	1922	The Ropin' Fool	The Girl	60
23	1922	Brawn of the North	Marion Wells	0
24	1923	Dangerous Trails	Grace Alderson	0
25	1923	Brass	Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.	30
26	1923	Snowdrift	Kitty (story)	0
27	1923	Michael O'Halloran	Nellie Minturn	0
28	1923	Rosita	The Queen	65
29	1923	Defying Destiny	Beth Alden	55
30	1923	Lucretia Lombard	Lucretia Morgan	50
31	1923	Boy of Mine	Ruth Latimer	0
32	1924	Pal o' Mine	Julia Montfort	0
33	1924	Beau Brummel	Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York	68
34	1924	Cytherea	Fanny Randon	0
35	1924	Being Respectable	Suzanne Schuyler	0
36	1924	Captain January	Isabelle Morton	65
37	1924	What the Butler Saw	Mrs. Barrington	0
38	1924	This Woman	Carol Drayton	0
39	1924	A Lost Lady	Marian Forrester	0
40	1925	My Wife and I	Mrs. James Borden	0
41	1925	The Man Without a Conscience	Shirley Graves	0
42	1925	Eve's Lover	Eva Burnside	0
43	1925	Compromise	Joan Trevore	0
44	1925	The Pleasure Buyers	Joan Wiswell	10
45	1925	Lady Windermere's Fan	Mrs. Erlynne	68
46	1926	Silken Shackles	Denise Lake	0
47	1926	The Honeymoon Express	Mary Lambert	0
48	1926	My Official Wife	Hélène, Countess Orloff	0
49	1927	Don't Tell the Wife	Mrs. Cartier	0
50	1927	The Climbers	Duchess of Arrogan	0
51	1927	The Desired Woman	Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney	0
52	1927	The Silver Slave	Bernice Randall	0
53	1928	Beware of Married Men	Myra Martin	10
54	1928	Powder My Back	Fritzi Foy	0
55	1928	The Perfect Crime	Stella	0
56	1928	Women They Talk About	Irene Mervin Hughes	0
57	1928	Craig's Wife	Harriet Craig	0
58	1928	Ned McCobb's Daughter	Carol	0
59	1929	Shanghai Rose	Shanghai Rose	0
60	1929	Daughters of Desire		0
61	1929	The Exalted Flapper	Queen Charlotte of Capra	0
62	1929	They Had to See Paris	Idy Peters	57
63	1930	So This Is London	Mrs. Hiram Draper	70
64	1930	On Your Back	Julianne	0
65	1930	Check and Double Check	Mrs. Blair	53
66	1931	Beau Ideal	Lady Brandon	41
67	1931	Father's Son	Ruth Emory	0
68	1931	Strangers May Kiss	Celia	54
69	1931	Five and Ten	Jenny Rarick	62
70	1931	The Mad Parade	Mrs. Schuyler	60
71	1931	Wicked	Mrs. Luther	47
72	1931	The Champ	Linda Carleton	71
73	1932	Down To Earth	Idy Peters	70
74	1932	Her Mad Night	Joan Manners	10
75	1932	Manhattan Tower	Ann Burns	59
76	1938	Hollywood Handicap	Woman at Racetrack	45
77	1938	That Certain Age	Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton	51
78	1939	The Right Way	Mrs. Martin	0
79	1939	Everybody's Hobby	Mrs. Myra Leslie	57
80	1940	The Mortal Storm	Mrs. Roth	72
81	1940	The Lady in Question	Michele Morestan	66
82	1940	Queen of the Yukon	Sadie Martin	50
83	1940	Keeping Company	Mrs. Thomas	64
84	1941	Three Sons o' Guns	Margaret Patterson	50
85	1942	This Time for Keeps	Mrs. Bryant	60
86	1947	Calendar Girl	Lulu Varden	54
87	1947	Angel and the Badman	Mrs. Worth	64
88	1947	New Orleans	Mrs. Rutledge Smith	66
89	1948	Fort Apache	Mrs. Mary O'Rourke	70
90	1948	Joan of Arc	Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend	61

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