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Fort Apache

as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke

1948
Angel and the Badman

as Mrs. Worth

1947
New Orleans

as Mrs. Rutledge Smith

1947
Calendar Girl

as Lulu Varden

1947
This Time for Keeps

as Mrs. Bryant

1942
Three Sons o' Guns

as Margaret Patterson

1941
The Mortal Storm

as Mrs. Roth

1940
The Lady in Question

as Michele Morestan

1940
Keeping Company

as Mrs. Thomas

1940
Five and Ten

as Jenny Rarick

1931
Strangers May Kiss

as Celia

1931
Beau Ideal

as Lady Brandon

1931
The Mad Parade

as Mrs. Schuyler

1931
The Desired Woman

as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney

1927
Beau Brummel

as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York

1924
Rosita

as The Queen

1923
Water, Water, Everywhere

as Hope Beecher

1920
Irene Rich Irene Rich

Birthday

1891-10-13

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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