1891-10-11 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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Fort Apache | Mrs. Mary O'Rourke | 1948-05-21 |
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Joan of Arc | Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend | 1948-12-22 |
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New Orleans | Mrs. Rutledge Smith | 1947-04-18 |
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Calendar Girl | Lulu Varden | 1947-01-31 |
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Angel and the Badman | Mrs. Worth | 1947-02-15 |
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This Time for Keeps | Mrs. Bryant | 1942-03-01 |
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Three Sons o' Guns | Margaret Patterson | 1941-08-02 |
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The Lady in Question | Michele Morestan | 1940-08-07 |
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Queen of the Yukon | Sadie Martin | 1940-08-26 |
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The Mortal Storm | Mrs. Roth | 1940-06-20 |
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Keeping Company | Mrs. Thomas | 1940-12-27 |
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Everybody's Hobby | Mrs. Myra Leslie | 1939-08-26 |
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The Right Way | Mrs. Martin | 1939-07-01 |
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Hollywood Handicap | Woman at Racetrack | 1938-05-28 |
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That Certain Age | Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton | 1938-10-06 |
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Down To Earth | Idy Peters | 1932-09-01 |
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Her Mad Night | Joan Manners | 1932-10-12 |
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Manhattan Tower | Ann Burns | 1932-12-01 |
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Wicked | Mrs. Luther | 1931-10-04 |
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Beau Ideal | Lady Brandon | 1931-01-25 |
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Father's Son | Ruth Emory | 1931-03-07 |
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Strangers May Kiss | Celia | 1931-04-04 |
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The Champ | Linda Carleton | 1931-11-21 |
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The Mad Parade | Mrs. Schuyler | 1931-09-18 |
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Five and Ten | Jenny Rarick | 1931-06-13 |
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So This Is London | Mrs. Hiram Draper | 1930-05-23 |
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On Your Back | Julianne | 1930-09-14 |
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Check and Double Check | Mrs. Blair | 1930-10-02 |
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Shanghai Rose | Shanghai Rose | 1929-01-01 |
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The Exalted Flapper | Queen Charlotte of Capra | 1929-06-09 |
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They Had to See Paris | Idy Peters | 1929-09-18 |
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Daughters of Desire | 1929-03-01 | |
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Powder My Back | Fritzi Foy | 1928-03-10 |
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Women They Talk About | Irene Mervin Hughes | 1928-08-10 |
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Beware of Married Men | Myra Martin | 1928-01-14 |
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Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light' | 1928-07-23 | |
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The Perfect Crime | Stella | 1928-08-04 |
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Ned McCobb's Daughter | Carol | 1928-12-02 |
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Craig's Wife | Harriet Craig | 1928-09-16 |
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The Climbers | Duchess of Arrogan | 1927-05-03 |
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The Silver Slave | Bernice Randall | 1927-11-12 |
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The Desired Woman | Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney | 1927-08-27 |
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Don't Tell the Wife | Mrs. Cartier | 1927-01-22 |
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My Official Wife | Hélène, Countess Orloff | 1926-10-16 |
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The Honeymoon Express | Mary Lambert | 1926-09-02 |
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Silken Shackles | Denise Lake | 1926-05-13 |
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Compromise | Joan Trevore | 1925-10-24 |
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The Pleasure Buyers | Joan Wiswell | 1925-12-19 |
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The Man Without a Conscience | Shirley Graves | 1925-06-07 |
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Eve's Lover | Eva Burnside | 1925-07-06 |
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My Wife and I | Mrs. James Borden | 1925-05-16 |
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Lady Windermere's Fan | Mrs. Erlynne | 1925-12-26 |
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Beau Brummel | Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York | 1924-03-30 |
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Being Respectable | Suzanne Schuyler | 1924-07-01 |
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Captain January | Isabelle Morton | 1924-07-06 |
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A Lost Lady | Marian Forrester | 1924-12-18 |
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What the Butler Saw | Mrs. Barrington | 1924-10-01 |
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Cytherea | Fanny Randon | 1924-05-04 |
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This Woman | Carol Drayton | 1924-11-02 |
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Pal o' Mine | Julia Montfort | 1924-03-15 |
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Boy of Mine | Ruth Latimer | 1923-12-30 |
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Lucretia Lombard | Lucretia Morgan | 1923-12-08 |
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Dangerous Trails | Grace Alderson | 1923-01-10 |
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Brass | Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G. | 1923-03-04 |
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Snowdrift | Kitty (story) | 1923-04-22 |
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Rosita | The Queen | 1923-09-03 |
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Defying Destiny | Beth Alden | 1923-09-29 |
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Michael O'Halloran | Nellie Minturn | 1923-06-10 |
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Hearts Aflame | 1923-01-01 | |
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One Clear Call | Maggie Thornton | 1922-05-20 |
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Brawn of the North | Marion Wells | 1922-11-12 |
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The Ropin' Fool | The Girl | 1922-10-29 |
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The Trap | The Teacher | 1922-05-08 |
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A Fool There Was | Mrs. Schuyler | 1922-06-18 |
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A Tale of Two Worlds | Mrs. Carmichael | 1921-03-13 |
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Boys Will Be Boys | Lucy | 1921-05-05 |
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Desperate Trails | Mrs. Walker | 1921-06-11 |
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A Voice in the Dark | Blanche Walton | 1921-06-05 |
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The Poverty of Riches | Mrs. Holt | 1921-11-01 |
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Stop Thief | Madge Carr | 1920-08-01 |
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The Strange Boarder | Jane Ingraham | 1920-04-01 |
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Godless Men | 'Black Pawl's' Wife | 1920-11-06 |
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Jes' Call Me Jim | Miss Butterworth | 1920-05-23 |
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The Street Called Straight | Drusilla Fane | 1920-02-01 |
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Water, Water, Everywhere | Hope Beecher | 1920-02-08 |
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The Sneak | Enid Granley | 1919-07-20 |
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Wolves of the Night | Juanita | 1919-08-10 |
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Diane of the Green Van | Keela | 1919-02-09 |
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A Man in the Open | Kate | 1919-02-23 |
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The Lone Star Ranger | Mrs. Laramie | 1919-06-29 |
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The Silver Girl | Julia Raymond | 1919-04-06 |
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The Spite Bride | Eileen Moore | 1919-09-21 |
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The Blue Bonnet | Martha Drake | 1919-07-01 |
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The Girl in His House | Betty Burlingham | 1918-06-24 |
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A Law Unto Herself | Stephanie | 1918-08-19 |
