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.
Movies (97)
Joan of Arc
1948
Fort Apache
1948
New Orleans
1947
Angel and the Badman
1947
Calendar Girl
1947
This Time for Keeps
1942
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
Keeping Company
1940
Queen of the Yukon
1940
The Lady in Question
1940
The Mortal Storm
1940
Everybody's Hobby
1939
That Certain Age
1938
Hollywood Handicap
1938
Manhattan Tower
1932
Her Mad Night
1932
Down To Earth
1932
The Champ
1931
Wicked
1931
The Mad Parade
1931
Five and Ten
1931
Strangers May Kiss
1931
Father's Son
1931
Beau Ideal
1931
Check and Double Check
1930
On Your Back
1930
So This Is London
1930
They Had to See Paris
1929
The Exalted Flapper
1929
Daughters of Desire
1929
Shanghai Rose
1929
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928
Craig's Wife
1928
Women They Talk About
1928
The Perfect Crime
1928
Powder My Back
1928
Beware of Married Men
1928
The Silver Slave
1927
The Desired Woman
1927
Dearie
1927
The Climbers
1927
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
My Official Wife
1926
The Honeymoon Express
1926
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
The Pleasure Buyers
1925
Compromise
1925
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
Eve's Lover
1925
The Man Without a Conscience
1925
My Wife and I
1925
A Lost Lady
1924
This Woman
1924
Captain January
1924
Being Respectable
1924
Cytherea
1924
Beau Brummel
1924
Pal o' Mine
1924
Boy of Mine
1923
Lucretia Lombard
1923
Rosita
1923
Yesterday's Wife
1923
Michael O'Halloran
1923
Snowdrift
1923
Brass
1923
Hearts Aflame
1923
Brawn of the North
1922
The Ropin' Fool
1922
A Fool There Was
1922
One Clear Call
1922
The Trap
1922
The Call of Home
1922
The Poverty of Riches
1921
Desperate Trails
1921
A Voice in the Dark
1921
Boys Will Be Boys
1921
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921
One Man in a Million
1921
Just Out of College
1920
Godless Men
1920
Stop Thief
1920
Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
The Strange Boarder
1920
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920
The Street Called Straight
1920
The Spite Bride
1919
Her Purchase Price
1919
Wolves of the Night
1919
The Blue Bonnet
1919
The Lone Star Ranger
1919
Castles in the Air
1919
The Silver Girl
1919
A Man in the Open
1919
Diane of the Green Van
1919
A Law Unto Herself
1918
The Girl in His House
1918
