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 | 1948-06-14 |
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Joan of Arc | Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend | 1948-12-22 |
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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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New Orleans | Mrs. Rutledge Smith | 1947-04-18 |
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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 Mortal Storm | Mrs. Roth | 1940-06-20 |
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Queen of the Yukon | Sadie Martin | 1940-08-26 |
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The Lady in Question | Michele Morestan | 1940-08-07 |
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Keeping Company | Mrs. Thomas | 1940-12-27 |
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The Right Way | Mrs. Martin | 1939-07-01 |
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Everybody's Hobby | Mrs. Myra Leslie | 1939-08-26 |
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That Certain Age | Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton | 1938-10-06 |
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Hollywood Handicap | Woman at Racetrack | 1938-05-28 |
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Manhattan Tower | Ann Burns | 1932-12-01 |
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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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Father's Son | Ruth Emory | 1931-03-07 |
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The Mad Parade | Mrs. Schuyler | 1931-09-18 |
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The Champ | Linda Carleton | 1931-11-21 |
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Beau Ideal | Lady Brandon | 1931-01-25 |
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Five and Ten | Jenny Rarick | 1931-06-13 |
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Wicked | Mrs. Luther | 1931-10-04 |
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Strangers May Kiss | Celia | 1931-04-04 |
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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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They Had to See Paris | Mrs. Idy Peters | 1929-09-18 |
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Daughters of Desire | 1929-03-01 | |
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Shanghai Rose | Shanghai Rose | 1929-01-01 |
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Powder My Back | Fritzi Foy | 1928-03-10 |
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The Perfect Crime | Stella | 1928-08-04 |
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Fashion News | Self (1929) | 1928-11-06 |
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Ned McCobb's Daughter | Carol | 1928-12-02 |
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Beware of Married Men | Myra Martin | 1928-01-14 |
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Women They Talk About | Irene Mervin Hughes | 1928-08-10 |
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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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Don't Tell the Wife | Mrs. Cartier | 1927-01-22 |
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The Desired Woman | Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney | 1927-08-27 |
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My Official Wife | Hélène, Countess Orloff | 1926-10-16 |
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Silken Shackles | Denise Lake | 1926-05-13 |
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The Honeymoon Express | Mary Lambert | 1926-09-02 |
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My Wife and I | Mrs. James Borden | 1925-05-16 |
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The Man Without a Conscience | Shirley Graves | 1925-06-07 |
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Compromise | Joan Trevore | 1925-10-24 |
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Lady Windermere's Fan | Mrs. Erlynne | 1925-12-26 |
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Eve's Lover | Eva Burnside | 1925-07-06 |
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The Pleasure Buyers | Joan Wiswell | 1925-12-19 |
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Pal o' Mine | Julia Montfort | 1924-03-15 |
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Captain January | Isabelle Morton | 1924-07-06 |
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Beau Brummel | Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York | 1924-03-30 |
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This Woman | Carol Drayton | 1924-11-02 |
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Cytherea | Fanny Randon | 1924-05-04 |
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Being Respectable | Suzanne Schuyler | 1924-07-01 |
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Brass | Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G. | 1923-03-04 |
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Defying Destiny | Beth Alden | 1923-09-29 |
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Snowdrift | Kitty (story) | 1923-04-22 |
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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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Rosita | The Queen | 1923-09-03 |
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The Trap | The Teacher | 1922-05-08 |
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The Ropin' Fool | The Girl | 1922-10-29 |
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Brawn of the North | Marion Wells | 1922-11-12 |
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A Fool There Was | Mrs. Schuyler | 1922-06-18 |
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One Clear Call | Maggie Thornton | 1922-05-20 |
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A Tale of Two Worlds | Mrs. Carmichael | 1921-03-13 |
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Desperate Trails | Mrs. Walker | 1921-06-11 |
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The Poverty of Riches | Mrs. Holt | 1921-11-01 |
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Boys Will Be Boys | Lucy | 1921-05-05 |
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A Voice in the Dark | Blanche Walton | 1921-06-05 |
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Water, Water, Everywhere | Hope Beecher | 1920-02-08 |
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Stop Thief | Madge Carr | 1920-08-01 |
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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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Godless Men | 'Black Pawl's' Wife | 1920-11-06 |
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The Strange Boarder | Jane Ingraham | 1920-04-01 |
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The Blue Bonnet | Martha Drake | 1919-07-01 |
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The Lone Star Ranger | Mrs. Laramie | 1919-06-29 |
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The Spite Bride | Eileen Moore | 1919-09-21 |
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The Silver Girl | Julia Raymond | 1919-04-06 |
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A Man in the Open | Kate | 1919-02-23 |
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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 |
