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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-10-11
Place of birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Images
Cast
The Mortal Storm
1940
7.30
Angel and the Badman
1947
6.40
Desperate Trails
1921
4.00
Daughters of Desire
1929
0.00
The Lone Star Ranger
1919
0.00
The Champ
1931
7.12
Fort Apache
1948
7.00
The Poverty of Riches
1921
0.00
The Perfect Crime
1928
0.00
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
0.00
The Girl in His House
1918
0.00
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928
0.00
Snowdrift
1923
0.00
Five and Ten
1931
5.85
New Orleans
1947
6.60
The Lady in Question
1940
6.63
The Blue Bonnet
1919
0.00
A Voice in the Dark
1921
0.00
This Time for Keeps
1942
6.00
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
6.80
Shanghai Rose
1929
0.00
Beau Brummel
1924
6.80
Stop Thief
1920
0.00
Beau Ideal
1931
4.09
Calendar Girl
1947
5.40
The Ropin' Fool
1922
6.00
Her Mad Night
1932
2.70
Manhattan Tower
1932
5.90
Captain January
1924
6.50
Down To Earth
1932
7.00
Queen of the Yukon
1940
5.00
Everybody's Hobby
1939
5.70
They Had to See Paris
1929
5.90
Lucretia Lombard
1923
5.00
Hollywood Handicap
1938
4.50
Craig's Wife
1928
0.00
Strangers May Kiss
1931
5.00
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920
0.00
Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
5.80
Boys Will Be Boys
1921
0.00
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921
5.50
Cytherea
1924
0.00
The Desired Woman
1927
0.00
The Mad Parade
1931
6.00
Defying Destiny
1923
5.50
Silken Shackles
1926
0.00
Keeping Company
1940
6.40
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
5.00
Rosita
1923
6.45
Compromise
1925
0.00
Check and Double Check
1930
5.30
The Trap
1922
5.20
That Certain Age
1938
5.10
On Your Back
1930
0.00
A Law Unto Herself
1918
0.00
The Street Called Straight
1920
0.00
Michael O'Halloran
1923
0.00
Father's Son
1931
0.00
The Honeymoon Express
1926
0.00
Women They Talk About
1928
0.00
Godless Men
1920
1.00
A Man in the Open
1919
0.00
Brass
1923
3.00
Wicked
1931
4.70
My Official Wife
1926
0.00
Brawn of the North
1922
0.00
So This Is London
1930
7.00
The Spite Bride
1919
0.00
Being Respectable
1924
0.00
One Clear Call
1922
0.00
Dangerous Trails
1923
0.00
The Climbers
1927
0.00
Beware of Married Men
1928
1.00
The Right Way
1939
0.00
Boy of Mine
1923
0.00
This Woman
1924
0.00
The Pleasure Buyers
1925
1.00
The Man Without a Conscience
1925
0.00
A Fool There Was
1922
0.00
Pal o' Mine
1924
0.00
The Silver Girl
1919
0.00
My Wife and I
1925
0.00
Joan of Arc
1948
6.10
The Silver Slave
1927
0.00
Eve's Lover
1925
0.00
The Strange Boarder
1920
0.00
Powder My Back
1928
0.00
A Lost Lady
1924
0.00
The Exalted Flapper
1929
0.00
What the Butler Saw
1924
0.00
Wolves of the Night
1919
0.00
The Sneak
1919
0.00
Diane of the Green Van
1919
0.00
Hearts Aflame
1923
0.00
Just Out of College
1920
0.00
Her Purchase Price
1919
0.00
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
0.00
The Call of Home
1922
0.00
One Man in a Million
1921
0.00
Yesterday's Wife
1923
0.00