Irene Rich
Known for: Acting
Born: October 11, 1891
Died: April 22, 1988
Place of birth: Buffalo, 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.
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Filmography
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6.2
Joan of Arc
1948
7.0
Fort Apache
1948
6.6
New Orleans
1947
6.4
Angel and the Badman
1947
5.6
Calendar Girl
1947
8.0
This Time for Keeps
1942
7.0
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
6.7
Keeping Company
1940
6.0
Queen of the Yukon
1940
6.7
The Lady in Question
1940
7.3
The Mortal Storm
1940
6.3
Everybody's Hobby
19399.0
The Right Way
1939
5.5
That Certain Age
1938
4.8
Hollywood Handicap
1938
6.0
Manhattan Tower
1932
3.8
Her Mad Night
1932
7.5
Down To Earth
1932
7.1
The Champ
1931
5.5
Wicked
1931
7.0
The Mad Parade
1931
6.1
Five and Ten
1931
5.2
Strangers May Kiss
1931
9.0
Father's Son
1931
4.5
Beau Ideal
1931
5.7
Check and Double Check
1930
8.0
On Your Back
1930
7.0
So This Is London
1930
6.4
They Had to See Paris
1929
8.0
The Exalted Flapper
1929
8.0
Daughters of Desire
1929
10.0
Shanghai Rose
1929
9.0
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928
7.0
Craig's Wife
1928
7.0
Women They Talk About
1928
9.0
The Perfect Crime
1928NR
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
1928
10.0
Powder My Back
1928
3.7
Beware of Married Men
1928
9.0
The Silver Slave
1927
10.0
The Desired Woman
1927
8.0
Dearie
1927
9.0
The Climbers
1927
9.0
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
8.0
My Official Wife
1926
8.0
The Honeymoon Express
19268.0
Silken Shackles
1926
6.9
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
3.7
The Pleasure Buyers
1925
7.0
Compromise
1925
7.0
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
7.0
Eve's Lover
1925
10.0
The Man Without a Conscience
1925
8.0
My Wife and I
1925
10.0
A Lost Lady
1924
9.0
This Woman
19247.0
What the Butler Saw
19245.0
A Woman Who Sinned
1924
6.8
Captain January
1924
9.0
Being Respectable
1924
8.0
Cytherea
1924
7.0
Beau Brummel
1924
9.0
Pal o' Mine
1924
9.0
Boy of Mine
1923
7.0
Lucretia Lombard
19236.7
Defying Destiny
1923
6.6
Rosita
1923
10.0
Yesterday's Wife
1923
10.0
Michael O'Halloran
1923
8.0
Snowdrift
1923
5.0
Brass
192310.0
Dangerous Trails
1923
9.0
Hearts Aflame
1923
8.0
Brawn of the North
1922
7.0
The Ropin' Fool
1922
10.0
A Fool There Was
1922
7.0
One Clear Call
1922
5.8
The Trap
1922
8.0
The Call of Home
1922
7.0
The Poverty of Riches
1921
7.0
Desperate Trails
1921
8.0
A Voice in the Dark
1921
8.0
Boys Will Be Boys
1921
6.3
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921
8.0
One Man in a Million
1921
10.0
Just Out of College
1920
4.0
Godless Men
1920
7.0
Stop Thief
1920
6.0
Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
10.0
The Strange Boarder
1920
7.0
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920
9.0
The Street Called Straight
1920
9.0
The Spite Bride
1919
9.0
Her Purchase Price
1919
7.0
Wolves of the Night
19197.0
The Sneak
1919
NR
The Blue Bonnet
1919
9.0
The Lone Star Ranger
1919
NR
Castles in the Air
1919
10.0
The Silver Girl
1919
10.0
A Man in the Open
1919
9.0
Diane of the Green Van
1919
9.0
A Law Unto Herself
1918
10.0
The Girl in His House
1918
10.0
The Yosemite Trail
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