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