Irene Rich
Acting
Born 1891-10-11
Died 1988-04-22
Buffalo, New York, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Fort Apache
Joan of Arc
Angel and the Badman
The Mortal Storm
The Champ
Defying Destiny
Everybody's Hobby
A Lost Lady
Compromise
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Lady in Question
Dearie
That Certain Age
So This Is London
Check and Double Check
My Official Wife
The Trap
Five and Ten
Beau Brummel
The Climbers
Beau Ideal
This Woman
The Honeymoon Express
The Call of Home
New Orleans
Stop Thief
One Man in a Million
Strangers May Kiss
My Wife and I
Just Out of College
Beware of Married Men
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
This Time for Keeps
Keeping Company
Wicked
One Clear Call
Eve's Lover
Cytherea
Boy of Mine
A Woman Who Sinned
Diane of the Green Van
The Strange Boarder
The Silver Slave
Lucretia Lombard
Hollywood Handicap
The Exalted Flapper
Down To Earth
The Ropin' Fool
Captain January
Michael O'Halloran
Her Purchase Price
A Fool There Was
Queen of the Yukon
Calendar Girl
Three Sons o' Guns
Craig's Wife
Brass
Castles in the Air
A Law Unto Herself
Rosita
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