Irene Rich

Known for ActingBorn 1891-10-11Died 1988-04-22Buffalo, New York, USA

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.Read more

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Shanghai Rose

Powder My Back

The Desired Woman

The Man Without a Conscience

A Lost Lady

Michael O'Halloran

Dangerous Trails

Yesterday's Wife

A Fool There Was

The Strange Boarder

Just Out of College

A Man in the Open

The Silver Girl

The Girl in His House

The Right Way

Father's Son

The Perfect Crime

Ned McCobb's Daughter

Don't Tell the Wife

The Climbers

The Silver Slave

Being Respectable

This Woman

Pal o' Mine

A Woman Who Sinned

Boy of Mine

Hearts Aflame

The Street Called Straight

The Lone Star Ranger

The Spite Bride

Diane of the Green Van

Her Purchase Price

A Law Unto Herself

This Time for Keeps

On Your Back

Daughters of Desire

The Exalted Flapper

Dearie

Silken Shackles

The Honeymoon Express

My Official Wife

My Wife and I

Cytherea

Snowdrift

Brawn of the North

The Call of Home

A Voice in the Dark

Boys Will Be Boys