Irene Rich

Acting

Born October 11, 1891, 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.

Filmography

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