Irene Rich
Acting
1891-10-11 · 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
Joan of Arc
1948 · Movie
Fort Apache
1948 · Movie
New Orleans
1947 · Movie
Angel and the Badman
1947 · Movie
Calendar Girl
1947 · Movie
This Time for Keeps
1942 · Movie
Three Sons o' Guns
1941 · Movie
Keeping Company
1940 · Movie
Queen of the Yukon
1940 · Movie
The Lady in Question
1940 · Movie
The Mortal Storm
1940 · Movie
Everybody's Hobby
1939 · Movie
The Right Way
1939 · Movie
That Certain Age
1938 · Movie
Hollywood Handicap
1938 · Movie
Manhattan Tower
1932 · Movie
Her Mad Night
1932 · Movie
Down To Earth
1932 · Movie
The Champ
1931 · Movie
Wicked
1931 · Movie
The Mad Parade
1931 · Movie
Five and Ten
1931 · Movie
Strangers May Kiss
1931 · Movie
Father's Son
1931 · Movie
Beau Ideal
1931 · Movie
Check and Double Check
1930 · Movie
On Your Back
1930 · Movie
So This Is London
1930 · Movie
They Had to See Paris
1929 · Movie
The Exalted Flapper
1929 · Movie
Daughters of Desire
1929 · Movie
Shanghai Rose
1929 · Movie
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928 · Movie
Craig's Wife
1928 · Movie
Women They Talk About
1928 · Movie
The Perfect Crime
1928 · Movie
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
1928 · Movie
Powder My Back
1928 · Movie
Beware of Married Men
1928 · Movie
The Silver Slave
1927 · Movie
The Desired Woman
1927 · Movie
Dearie
1927 · Movie
The Climbers
1927 · Movie
Don't Tell the Wife
1927 · Movie
My Official Wife
1926 · Movie
The Honeymoon Express
1926 · Movie
Silken Shackles
1926 · Movie
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925 · Movie
The Pleasure Buyers
1925 · Movie
Compromise
1925 · Movie
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925 · Movie
Eve's Lover
1925 · Movie
The Man Without a Conscience
1925 · Movie
My Wife and I
1925 · Movie
A Lost Lady
1924 · Movie
This Woman
1924 · Movie
What the Butler Saw
1924 · Movie
A Woman Who Sinned
1924 · Movie
Captain January
1924 · Movie
Being Respectable
1924 · Movie
Cytherea
1924 · Movie
Beau Brummel
1924 · Movie
Pal o' Mine
1924 · Movie
Boy of Mine
1923 · Movie
Lucretia Lombard
1923 · Movie
Defying Destiny
1923 · Movie
Rosita
1923 · Movie
Yesterday's Wife
1923 · Movie
Michael O'Halloran
1923 · Movie
Snowdrift
1923 · Movie
Brass
1923 · Movie
Dangerous Trails
1923 · Movie
Hearts Aflame
1923 · Movie
Brawn of the North
1922 · Movie
The Ropin' Fool
1922 · Movie
A Fool There Was
1922 · Movie
One Clear Call
1922 · Movie
The Trap
1922 · Movie
The Call of Home
1922 · Movie
The Poverty of Riches
1921 · Movie
Desperate Trails
1921 · Movie
A Voice in the Dark
1921 · Movie
Boys Will Be Boys
1921 · Movie
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921 · Movie
One Man in a Million
1921 · Movie
Just Out of College
1920 · Movie
Godless Men
1920 · Movie
Stop Thief
1920 · Movie
Jes' Call Me Jim
1920 · Movie
The Strange Boarder
1920 · Movie
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920 · Movie
The Street Called Straight
1920 · Movie
The Spite Bride
1919 · Movie
Her Purchase Price
1919 · Movie
Wolves of the Night
1919 · Movie
The Sneak
1919 · Movie
The Blue Bonnet
1919 · Movie
The Lone Star Ranger
1919 · Movie
Castles in the Air
1919 · Movie
The Silver Girl
1919 · Movie
A Man in the Open
1919 · Movie
Diane of the Green Van
1919 · Movie
A Law Unto Herself
1918 · Movie
The Girl in His House
1918 · Movie
The Yosemite Trail
Movie