Irene Rich
Biography
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
1940
asMrs. Roth
1947
asMrs. Worth
1921
asMrs. Walker
1929
as
1919
asMrs. Laramie
1931
asLinda Carleton
1948
asMrs. Mary O'Rourke
1921
asMrs. Holt
1928
asStella
1927
asMrs. Cartier
1918
asBetty Burlingham
1928
asCarol
1923
asKitty (story)
1931
asJenny Rarick
1947
asMrs. Rutledge Smith
1940
asMichele Morestan
1919
asMartha Drake
1921
asBlanche Walton
1942
asMrs. Bryant
1925
asMrs. Erlynne
1929
asShanghai Rose
1924
asFrederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
1920
asMadge Carr
1931
asLady Brandon
1947
asLulu Varden
1922
asThe Girl
1932
asJoan Manners
1932
asAnn Burns
1924
asIsabelle Morton
1932
asIdy Peters
1940
asSadie Martin
1939
asMrs. Myra Leslie
1929
asIdy Peters
1923
asLucretia Morgan
1938
asWoman at Racetrack
1928
asHarriet Craig
1931
asCelia
1920
asHope Beecher
1920
asMiss Butterworth
1921
asLucy
1921
asMrs. Carmichael
1924
asFanny Randon
1927
asDiana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
1931
asMrs. Schuyler
1923
asBeth Alden
1926
asDenise Lake
1940
asMrs. Thomas
1941
asMargaret Patterson
1923
asThe Queen
1925
asJoan Trevore
1930
asMrs. Blair
1922
asThe Teacher
1938
asMrs. Dorothy Fullerton
1930
asJulianne
1918
asStephanie
1920
asDrusilla Fane
1923
asNellie Minturn
1931
asRuth Emory
1926
asMary Lambert
1928
asIrene Mervin Hughes
1920
as'Black Pawl's' Wife
1919
asKate
1923
asMrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
1931
asMrs. Luther
1926
asHélène, Countess Orloff
1922
asMarion Wells
1930
asMrs. Hiram Draper
1919
asEileen Moore
1924
asSuzanne Schuyler
1922
asMaggie Thornton
1923
asGrace Alderson
1928
asMyra Martin
1927
asDuchess of Arrogan
1939
asMrs. Martin
1925
asJoan Wiswell
1925
asShirley Graves
1923
asRuth Latimer
1924
asCarol Drayton
1922
asMrs. Schuyler
1924
asJulia Montfort
1919
asJulia Raymond
1925
asMrs. James Borden
1948
asCatherine le Royer, Joan's friend
1927
asBernice Randall
1925
asEva Burnside
1920
asJane Ingraham
1928
asFritzi Foy
1924
asMarian Forrester
1929
asQueen Charlotte of Capra
1924
asMrs. Barrington
1919
asJuanita
1919
asEnid Granley
1919
asKeela
1923
as1928
as
1920
asMiss Jones
1919
asMarda
asEve Marsham
1925
asMrs. John Mannering
1922
asAlix Lansing
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