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Irene Rich
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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 p…
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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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Joan of Arc
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
New Orleans
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
Angel and the Badman
as Mrs. Worth
Calendar Girl
as Lulu Varden
This Time for Keeps
as Mrs. Bryant
Three Sons o' Guns
as Margaret Patterson
Keeping Company
as Mrs. Thomas
Queen of the Yukon
as Sadie Martin
The Lady in Question
as Michele Morestan
The Mortal Storm
as Mrs. Roth
Everybody's Hobby
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
No Poster
The Right Way
as Mrs. Martin
That Certain Age
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
Hollywood Handicap
as Woman at Racetrack
Manhattan Tower
as Ann Burns
Her Mad Night
as Joan Manners
Down To Earth
as Idy Peters
The Champ
as Linda Carleton
Wicked
as Mrs. Luther
The Mad Parade
as Mrs. Schuyler
Five and Ten
as Jenny Rarick
Strangers May Kiss
as Celia
Father's Son
as Ruth Emory
Beau Ideal
as Lady Brandon
Check and Double Check
as Mrs. Blair
On Your Back
as Julianne
So This Is London
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
They Had to See Paris
as Idy Peters
The Exalted Flapper
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
Daughters of Desire
Shanghai Rose
as Shanghai Rose
Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Carol
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
Women They Talk About
as Irene Mervin Hughes
The Perfect Crime
as Stella
No Poster
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
Powder My Back
as Fritzi Foy
Beware of Married Men
as Myra Martin
The Silver Slave
as Bernice Randall
The Desired Woman
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
Dearie
as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
The Climbers
as Duchess of Arrogan
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mrs. Cartier
My Official Wife
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
The Honeymoon Express
as Mary Lambert
No Poster
Silken Shackles
as Denise Lake
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs. Erlynne
The Pleasure Buyers
as Joan Wiswell
Compromise
as Joan Trevore
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
as Mrs. John Mannering
Eve's Lover
as Eva Burnside
The Man Without a Conscience
as Shirley Graves
My Wife and I
as Mrs. James Borden
A Lost Lady
as Marian Forrester
This Woman
as Carol Drayton
No Poster
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs. Barrington
No Poster
A Woman Who Sinned
as Mrs. Ransdell
Captain January
as Isabelle Morton
Being Respectable
as Suzanne Schuyler
Cytherea
as Fanny Randon
Beau Brummel
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
Pal o' Mine
as Julia Montfort
Boy of Mine
as Ruth Latimer
Lucretia Lombard
as Lucretia Morgan
No Poster
Defying Destiny
as Beth Alden
Rosita
as The Queen
Yesterday's Wife
as Megan Daye
Michael O'Halloran
as Nellie Minturn
Snowdrift
as Kitty (story)
Brass
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
No Poster
Dangerous Trails
as Grace Alderson
Hearts Aflame
Brawn of the North
as Marion Wells
The Ropin' Fool
as The Girl
A Fool There Was
as Mrs. Schuyler
One Clear Call
as Maggie Thornton
The Trap
as The Teacher
The Call of Home
as Alix Lansing
The Poverty of Riches
as Mrs. Holt
Desperate Trails
as Mrs. Walker
A Voice in the Dark
as Blanche Walton
Boys Will Be Boys
as Lucy
A Tale of Two Worlds
as Mrs. Carmichael
One Man in a Million
as Madame Maureveau
Just Out of College
as Miss Jones
Godless Men
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
Stop Thief
as Madge Carr
Jes' Call Me Jim
as Miss Butterworth
The Strange Boarder
as Jane Ingraham
Water, Water, Everywhere
as Hope Beecher
The Street Called Straight
as Drusilla Fane
The Spite Bride
as Eileen Moore
Her Purchase Price
as Marda
Wolves of the Night
as Juanita
No Poster
The Sneak
as Enid Granley
The Blue Bonnet
as Martha Drake
The Lone Star Ranger
as Mrs. Laramie
Castles in the Air
as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
The Silver Girl
as Julia Raymond
A Man in the Open
as Kate
Diane of the Green Van
as Keela
A Law Unto Herself
as Stephanie
The Girl in His House
as Betty Burlingham
The Yosemite Trail
as Eve Marsham