Irene Rich
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-10-11
Day of Death
1988-04-22 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
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.
Acting
(1948)
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
(1948)
Joan of Arc
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
(1947)
Angel and the Badman
as Mrs. Worth
(1947)
New Orleans
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
(1947)
Calendar Girl
as Lulu Varden
(1942)
This Time for Keeps
as Mrs. Bryant
(1941)
Three Sons o' Guns
as Margaret Patterson
(1940)
The Lady in Question
as Michele Morestan
(1940)
The Mortal Storm
as Mrs. Roth
(1940)
Queen of the Yukon
as Sadie Martin
(1940)
Keeping Company
as Mrs. Thomas
(1939)
Everybody's Hobby
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
(1939)
The Right Way
as Mrs. Martin
(1938)
That Certain Age
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
(1938)
Hollywood Handicap
as Woman at Racetrack
(1932)
Her Mad Night
as Joan Manners
(1932)
Manhattan Tower
as Ann Burns
(1932)
Down To Earth
as Idy Peters
(1931)
Wicked
as Mrs. Luther
(1931)
The Champ
as Linda Carleton
(1931)
Beau Ideal
as Lady Brandon
(1931)
Strangers May Kiss
as Celia
(1931)
The Mad Parade
as Mrs. Schuyler
(1931)
Five and Ten
as Jenny Rarick
(1931)
Father's Son
as Ruth Emory
(1930)
Check and Double Check
as Mrs. Blair
(1930)
So This Is London
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
(1930)
On Your Back
as Julianne
(1929)
Shanghai Rose
as Shanghai Rose
(1929)
They Had to See Paris
as Idy Peters
(1929)
The Exalted Flapper
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
(1929)
(1928)
Women They Talk About
as Irene Mervin Hughes
(1928)
Beware of Married Men
as Myra Martin
(1928)
The Perfect Crime
as Stella
(1928)
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
(1928)
Powder My Back
as Fritzi Foy
(1928)
Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Carol
(1927)
The Silver Slave
as Bernice Randall
(1927)
The Climbers
as Duchess of Arrogan
(1927)
The Desired Woman
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
(1927)
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mrs. Cartier
(1926)
Silken Shackles
as Denise Lake
(1926)
The Honeymoon Express
as Mary Lambert
(1926)
My Official Wife
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
(1925)
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs. Erlynne
(1925)
Eve's Lover
as Eva Burnside
(1925)
My Wife and I
as Mrs. James Borden
(1925)
Compromise
as Joan Trevore
(1925)
The Man Without a Conscience
as Shirley Graves
(1925)
The Pleasure Buyers
as Joan Wiswell
(1924)
This Woman
as Carol Drayton
(1924)
Cytherea
as Fanny Randon
(1924)
Beau Brummel
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
(1924)
Being Respectable
as Suzanne Schuyler
(1924)
Pal o' Mine
as Julia Montfort
(1924)
Captain January
as Isabelle Morton
(1924)
A Lost Lady
as Marian Forrester
(1924)
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs. Barrington
(1923)
Lucretia Lombard
as Lucretia Morgan
(1923)
Defying Destiny
as Beth Alden
(1923)
Brass
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
(1923)
Rosita
as The Queen
(1923)
Boy of Mine
as Ruth Latimer
(1923)
Snowdrift
as Kitty (story)
(1923)
Dangerous Trails
as Grace Alderson
(1923)
Michael O'Halloran
as Nellie Minturn
(1923)
(1922)
The Trap
as The Teacher
(1922)
Brawn of the North
as Marion Wells
(1922)
One Clear Call
as Maggie Thornton
(1922)
The Ropin' Fool
as The Girl
(1922)
A Fool There Was
as Mrs. Schuyler
(1921)
A Tale of Two Worlds
as Mrs. Carmichael
(1921)
The Poverty of Riches
as Mrs. Holt
(1921)
Boys Will Be Boys
as Lucy
(1921)
Desperate Trails
as Mrs. Walker
(1921)
A Voice in the Dark
as Blanche Walton
(1920)
The Street Called Straight
as Drusilla Fane
(1920)
Stop Thief
as Madge Carr
(1920)
Jes' Call Me Jim
as Miss Butterworth
(1920)
Godless Men
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
(1920)
The Strange Boarder
as Jane Ingraham
(1920)
Water, Water, Everywhere
as Hope Beecher
(1919)
The Spite Bride
as Eileen Moore
(1919)
The Silver Girl
as Julia Raymond
(1919)
Diane of the Green Van
as Keela
(1919)
A Man in the Open
as Kate
(1919)
The Lone Star Ranger
as Mrs. Laramie
(1919)
The Blue Bonnet
as Martha Drake
(1919)
The Sneak
as Enid Granley
(1919)
Wolves of the Night
as Juanita
(1918)
A Law Unto Herself
as Stephanie
(1918)
The Girl in His House
as Betty Burlingham