Irene Rich
Acting
- Born:
- 1891-10-11
- Died:
- 1988-04-22
- Place of birth:
- Buffalo, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Joan of Arc
Fort Apache
New Orleans
Angel and the Badman
Calendar Girl
This Time for Keeps
Three Sons o' Guns
Keeping Company
Queen of the Yukon
The Lady in Question
The Mortal Storm
Everybody's Hobby
The Right Way
That Certain Age
Hollywood Handicap
Manhattan Tower
Her Mad Night
Down To Earth
The Champ
Wicked
The Mad Parade
Five and Ten
Strangers May Kiss
Father's Son
Beau Ideal
Check and Double Check
On Your Back
So This Is London
They Had to See Paris
The Exalted Flapper
Daughters of Desire
Shanghai Rose
Ned McCobb's Daughter
Craig's Wife
Women They Talk About
The Perfect Crime
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
Powder My Back
Beware of Married Men
The Beast
The Silver Slave
The Desired Woman
Dearie
The Climbers
Don't Tell the Wife
My Official Wife
The Honeymoon Express
Silken Shackles
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Pleasure Buyers
Compromise
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Eve's Lover
The Man Without a Conscience
My Wife and I
A Lost Lady
This Woman
What the Butler Saw
A Woman Who Sinned
Captain January
Being Respectable
Cytherea
Beau Brummel
Pal o' Mine
Boy of Mine
Lucretia Lombard
Defying Destiny
Rosita
Yesterday's Wife
Michael O'Halloran
Snowdrift
Brass
Dangerous Trails
Hearts Aflame
Brawn of the North
The Ropin' Fool
A Fool There Was
One Clear Call
The Trap
The Call of Home
The Poverty of Riches
Desperate Trails
A Voice in the Dark
Boys Will Be Boys
A Tale of Two Worlds
One Man in a Million
Just Out of College
Godless Men
Stop Thief
Jes' Call Me Jim
The Strange Boarder
Water, Water, Everywhere
The Street Called Straight
The Spite Bride
Her Purchase Price
Wolves of the Night
The Sneak
The Blue Bonnet
The Lone Star Ranger
Castles in the Air
The Silver Girl
A Man in the Open
Diane of the Green Van
A Law Unto Herself
The Girl in His House
The Yosemite Trail