Irene Rich
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.
105 acting credits
Acting · 105
Fort Apache
1948
Joan of Arc
1948
Angel and the Badman
1947
The Mortal Storm
1940
The Champ
1931
That Certain Age
1938
Captain January
1924
So This Is London
1930
My Official Wife
1926
Beau Brummel
1924
The Lady in Question
1940
This Time for Keeps
1942
Beau Ideal
1931
Five and Ten
1931
The Trap
1922
Stop Thief
1920
Godless Men
1920
Wicked
1931
Desperate Trails
1921
Father's Son
1931
New Orleans
1947
Rosita
1923
Hollywood Handicap
1938
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
Brass
1923
Being Respectable
1924
Strangers May Kiss
1931
They Had to See Paris
1929
Daughters of Desire
1929
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
The Strange Boarder
1920
The Pleasure Buyers
1925
Cytherea
1924
Down To Earth
1932
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921
The Desired Woman
1927
Snowdrift
1923
Calendar Girl
1947
Beware of Married Men
1928
The Honeymoon Express
1926
The Silver Slave
1927
Manhattan Tower
1932
Eve's Lover
1925
This Woman
1924
Keeping Company
1940
Lucretia Lombard
1923
On Your Back
1930
Her Mad Night
1932
The Climbers
1927
A Woman Who Sinned
1924
The Spite Bride
1919
Craig's Wife
1928
The Mad Parade
1931
The Poverty of Riches
1921
Dearie
1927
Check and Double Check
1930
Shanghai Rose
1929
Everybody's Hobby
1939
The Ropin' Fool
1922
One Clear Call
1922
The Exalted Flapper
1929
Michael O'Halloran
1923
The Perfect Crime
1928
The Lone Star Ranger
1919
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
Boys Will Be Boys
1921
A Lost Lady
1924
Women They Talk About
1928
Brawn of the North
1922
The Call of Home
1922
Boy of Mine
1923
Hearts Aflame
1923
Queen of the Yukon
1940
A Law Unto Herself
1918
My Wife and I
1925
The Yosemite Trail
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The Blue Bonnet
1919
Defying Destiny
1923
The Man Without a Conscience
1925
Compromise
1925
The Street Called Straight
1920
A Voice in the Dark
1921
Diane of the Green Van
1919
Her Purchase Price
1919
A Fool There Was
1922
Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
Wolves of the Night
1919
Pal o' Mine
1924
The Sneak
1919
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920
Silken Shackles
1926
Castles in the Air
1919
The Right Way
1939
Powder My Back
1928
Dangerous Trails
1923
The Silver Girl
1919
A Man in the Open
1919
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
What the Butler Saw
1924
One Man in a Million
1921
The Girl in His House
1918
Just Out of College
1920
Yesterday's Wife
1923
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
1928