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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.
Movie | Joan of Arc | Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend | 1948-12-22 |
Movie | Fort Apache | Mrs. Mary O'Rourke | 1948-06-14 |
Movie | Angel and the Badman | Mrs. Worth | 1947-02-15 |
Movie | Calendar Girl | Lulu Varden | 1947-01-31 |
Movie | New Orleans | Mrs. Rutledge Smith | 1947-04-18 |
Movie | This Time for Keeps | Mrs. Bryant | 1942-03-01 |
Movie | Three Sons o' Guns | Margaret Patterson | 1941-08-02 |
Movie | The Mortal Storm | Mrs. Roth | 1940-06-20 |
Movie | The Lady in Question | Michele Morestan | 1940-08-07 |
Movie | Queen of the Yukon | Sadie Martin | 1940-08-26 |
Movie | Keeping Company | Mrs. Thomas | 1940-12-27 |
Movie | The Right Way | Mrs. Martin | 1939-07-01 |
Movie | Everybody's Hobby | Mrs. Myra Leslie | 1939-08-26 |
Movie | Hollywood Handicap | Woman at Racetrack | 1938-05-28 |
Movie | That Certain Age | Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton | 1938-10-06 |
Movie | Of Human Bondage | Baby (uncredited) | 1934-07-20 |
Movie | Her Mad Night | Joan Manners | 1932-10-12 |
Movie | Down To Earth | Idy Peters | 1932-09-01 |
Movie | Manhattan Tower | Ann Burns | 1932-12-01 |
Movie | Father's Son | Ruth Emory | 1931-03-07 |
Movie | Beau Ideal | Lady Brandon | 1931-01-25 |
Movie | Strangers May Kiss | Celia | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | Five and Ten | Jenny Rarick | 1931-06-13 |
Movie | The Champ | Linda Carleton | 1931-11-21 |
Movie | Wicked | Mrs. Luther | 1931-10-04 |
Movie | The Mad Parade | Mrs. Schuyler | 1931-09-18 |
Movie | So This Is London | Mrs. Hiram Draper | 1930-06-06 |
Movie | On Your Back | Julianne | 1930-09-14 |
Movie | Check and Double Check | Mrs. Blair | 1930-10-02 |
Movie | They Had to See Paris | Mrs. Idy Peters | 1929-09-18 |
Movie | Beware of Married Men | Myra Martin | 1928-01-14 |
Movie | Women They Talk About | Irene Mervin Hughes | 1928-08-10 |
Movie | Fashion News | Self (1929) | 1928-11-06 |
Movie | Craig's Wife | Harriet Craig | 1928-09-16 |
Movie | The Climbers | Duchess of Arrogan | 1927-05-03 |
Movie | The Desired Woman | Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney | 1927-08-27 |
Movie | Silken Shackles | Denise Lake | 1926-05-13 |
Movie | My Official Wife | Hélène, Countess Orloff | 1926-10-16 |
Movie | The Honeymoon Express | Mary Lambert | 1926-09-02 |
Movie | The Man Without a Conscience | 1925-06-07 | |
Movie | Eve's Lover | Eva Burnside | 1925-07-06 |
Movie | The Pleasure Buyers | Joan Wiswell | 1925-12-19 |
Movie | Lady Windermere's Fan | Mrs. Erlynne | 1925-12-26 |
Movie | Beau Brummel | Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York | 1924-03-30 |
Movie | Pal o' Mine | Julia Montfort | 1924-03-15 |
Movie | Cytherea | Fanny Randon | 1924-05-04 |
Movie | Captain January | Isabelle Morton | 1924-07-06 |
Movie | Being Respectable | Suzanne Schuyler | 1924-07-01 |
Movie | This Woman | Carol Drayton | 1924-11-02 |
Movie | Snowdrift | Kitty (story) | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | Brass | Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G. | 1923-03-04 |
Movie | Rosita | The Queen | 1923-09-03 |
Movie | Dangerous Trails | Grace Alderson | 1923-01-10 |
Movie | Defying Destiny | Beth Alden | 1923-09-29 |
Movie | Boy of Mine | Ruth Latimer | 1923-12-30 |
Movie | Lucretia Lombard | Lucretia Morgan | 1923-12-08 |
Movie | The Trap | The Teacher | 1922-05-08 |
Movie | One Clear Call | Maggie Thornton | 1922-05-20 |
Movie | The Ropin' Fool | The Girl | 1922-10-29 |
Movie | A Fool There Was | Mrs. Schuyler | 1922-06-18 |
Movie | Brawn of the North | Marion Wells | 1922-11-12 |
Movie | Boys Will Be Boys | Lucy | 1921-05-05 |
Movie | A Tale of Two Worlds | Mrs. Carmichael | 1921-03-13 |
Movie | The Poverty of Riches | Mrs. Holt | 1921-11-01 |
Movie | Water, Water, Everywhere | Hope Beecher | 1920-02-08 |
Movie | Jes' Call Me Jim | Miss Butterworth | 1920-05-23 |
Movie | The Street Called Straight | Drusilla Fane | 1920-02-01 |
Movie | Stop Thief | Madge Carr | 1920-08-01 |
Movie | Godless Men | 'Black Pawl's' Wife | 1920-11-06 |
Movie | The Silver Girl | Julia Raymond | 1919-04-06 |
Movie | A Man in the Open | Kate | 1919-02-23 |
Movie | The Blue Bonnet | Martha Drake | 1919-07-01 |
Movie | The Spite Bride | Eileen Moore | 1919-09-21 |
Movie | A Law Unto Herself | Stephanie | 1918-08-19 |