Irene Rich
Birthday: 1891-10-11
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.
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The Mortal Storm
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Angel and the Badman
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Desperate Trails
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Daughters of Desire
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The Lone Star Ranger
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The Champ
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Fort Apache
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The Poverty of Riches
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The Perfect Crime
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Don't Tell the Wife
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The Girl in His House
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
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Snowdrift
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Five and Ten
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New Orleans
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The Lady in Question
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The Blue Bonnet
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A Voice in the Dark
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This Time for Keeps
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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Beau Brummel
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Stop Thief
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Beau Ideal
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Calendar Girl
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The Ropin' Fool
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Manhattan Tower
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Captain January
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Down To Earth
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Queen of the Yukon
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Lucretia Lombard
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Cytherea
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The Mad Parade
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Defying Destiny
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Silken Shackles
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Keeping Company
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Three Sons o' Guns
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Rosita
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Compromise
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Check and Double Check
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The Trap
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On Your Back
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A Law Unto Herself
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Brass
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My Official Wife
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Brawn of the North
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One Clear Call
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Dangerous Trails
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Beware of Married Men
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The Climbers
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The Right Way
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The Pleasure Buyers
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The Man Without a Conscience
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A Fool There Was
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Pal o' Mine
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The Silver Girl
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My Wife and I
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Joan of Arc
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The Silver Slave
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Eve's Lover
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The Strange Boarder
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Powder My Back
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A Lost Lady
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The Exalted Flapper
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Diane of the Green Van
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Hearts Aflame
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Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
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Just Out of College
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Her Purchase Price
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The Yosemite Trail
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The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted is a lost 1925 American drama film directed by James Flood and written by...
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The Call of Home
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