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