Irene Rich
106 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 11, 1891
- Died
- Apr 22, 1988 (age 96)
- Place of birth
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Irene Luther · Irene Frances Luther
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.
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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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Known for
Irene Rich: movies and TV shows
Acting (106)
- Upcoming The Yosemite Trail
as Eve Marsham
- 1948 Joan of Arc
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
- 1948 Fort Apache
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
- 1947 New Orleans
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
- 1947 Angel and the Badman
as Mrs. Worth
- 1947 Calendar Girl
as Lulu Varden
- 1942 This Time for Keeps
as Mrs. Bryant
- 1941 Three Sons o' Guns
as Margaret Patterson
- 1940 Keeping Company
as Mrs. Thomas
- 1940 Queen of the Yukon
as Sadie Martin
- 1940 The Lady in Question
as Michele Morestan
- 1940 The Mortal Storm
as Mrs. Roth
- 1939 Everybody's Hobby
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
- 1939 The Right Way
as Mrs. Martin
- 1938 That Certain Age
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
- 1938 Hollywood Handicap
as Woman at Racetrack
- 1932 Manhattan Tower
as Ann Burns
- 1932 Her Mad Night
as Joan Manners
- 1932 Down To Earth
as Idy Peters
- 1931 The Champ
as Linda Carleton
- 1931 Wicked
as Mrs. Luther
- 1931 The Mad Parade
as Mrs. Schuyler
- 1931 Five and Ten
as Jenny Rarick
- 1931 Strangers May Kiss
as Celia
- 1931 Father's Son
as Ruth Emory
- 1931 Beau Ideal
as Lady Brandon
- 1930 Check and Double Check
as Mrs. Blair
- 1930 On Your Back
as Julianne
- 1930 So This Is London
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
- 1929 They Had to See Paris
as Idy Peters
- 1929 The Exalted Flapper
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
- 1929
- 1929 Shanghai Rose
as Shanghai Rose
- 1928 Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Carol
- 1928 Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
- 1928 Women They Talk About
as Irene Mervin Hughes
- 1928 The Perfect Crime
as Stella
- 1928
- 1928 Powder My Back
as Fritzi Foy
- 1928 Beware of Married Men
as Myra Martin
- 1928
- 1927 The Silver Slave
as Bernice Randall
- 1927 The Desired Woman
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
- 1927 Dearie
as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
- 1927 The Climbers
as Duchess of Arrogan
- 1927 Don't Tell the Wife
as Mrs. Cartier
- 1926 My Official Wife
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
- 1926 The Honeymoon Express
as Mary Lambert
- 1926 Silken Shackles
as Denise Lake
- 1925 Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs. Erlynne
- 1925 The Pleasure Buyers
as Joan Wiswell
- 1925 Compromise
as Joan Trevore
- 1925 The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
as Mrs. John Mannering
- 1925 Eve's Lover
as Eva Burnside
- 1925 The Man Without a Conscience
as Shirley Graves
- 1925 My Wife and I
as Mrs. James Borden
- 1924 A Lost Lady
as Marian Forrester
- 1924 This Woman
as Carol Drayton
- 1924 What the Butler Saw
as Mrs. Barrington
- 1924 A Woman Who Sinned
as Mrs. Ransdell
- 1924 Captain January
as Isabelle Morton
- 1924 Being Respectable
as Suzanne Schuyler
- 1924 Cytherea
as Fanny Randon
- 1924 Beau Brummel
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
- 1924 Pal o' Mine
as Julia Montfort
- 1923 Boy of Mine
as Ruth Latimer
- 1923 Lucretia Lombard
as Lucretia Morgan
- 1923 Defying Destiny
as Beth Alden
- 1923 Rosita
as The Queen
- 1923 Yesterday's Wife
as Megan Daye
- 1923 Michael O'Halloran
as Nellie Minturn
- 1923 Snowdrift
as Kitty (story)
- 1923 Brass
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
- 1923 Dangerous Trails
as Grace Alderson
- 1923
- 1922 Brawn of the North
as Marion Wells
- 1922 The Ropin' Fool
as The Girl
- 1922 A Fool There Was
as Mrs. Schuyler
- 1922 One Clear Call
as Maggie Thornton
- 1922 The Trap
as The Teacher
- 1922 The Call of Home
as Alix Lansing
- 1921 The Poverty of Riches
as Mrs. Holt
- 1921 Desperate Trails
as Mrs. Walker
- 1921 A Voice in the Dark
as Blanche Walton
- 1921 Boys Will Be Boys
as Lucy
- 1921 A Tale of Two Worlds
as Mrs. Carmichael
- 1921 One Man in a Million
as Madame Maureveau
- 1920 Just Out of College
as Miss Jones
- 1920 Godless Men
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
- 1920 Stop Thief
as Madge Carr
- 1920 Jes' Call Me Jim
as Miss Butterworth
- 1920 The Strange Boarder
as Jane Ingraham
- 1920 Water, Water, Everywhere
as Hope Beecher
- 1920 The Street Called Straight
as Drusilla Fane
- 1919 The Spite Bride
as Eileen Moore
- 1919 Her Purchase Price
as Marda
- 1919 Wolves of the Night
as Juanita
- 1919 The Sneak
as Enid Granley
- 1919 The Blue Bonnet
as Martha Drake
- 1919 The Lone Star Ranger
as Mrs. Laramie
- 1919 Castles in the Air
as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
- 1919 The Silver Girl
as Julia Raymond
- 1919 A Man in the Open
as Kate
- 1919 Diane of the Green Van
as Keela
- 1918 A Law Unto Herself
as Stephanie
- 1918 The Girl in His House
as Betty Burlingham