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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 11, 1891
Died
April 22, 1988
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Irene Luther
- Irene Frances Luther
Irene Rich
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.1
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Joan of Arc
1948
7.0
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Fort Apache
1948
6.6
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
New Orleans
1947
6.4
Mrs. Worth
Angel and the Badman
1947
5.4
Lulu Varden
Calendar Girl
1947
6.0
Mrs. Bryant
This Time for Keeps
1942
5.0
Margaret Patterson
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
6.4
Mrs. Thomas
Keeping Company
1940
5.0
Sadie Martin
Queen of the Yukon
1940
6.6
Michele Morestan
The Lady in Question
1940
Credits
Joan of Arc
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
1948
6.1
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
1948
7.0
New Orleans
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
1947
6.6
Angel and the Badman
as Mrs. Worth
1947
6.4
Calendar Girl
as Lulu Varden
1947
5.4
This Time for Keeps
as Mrs. Bryant
1942
6.0
Three Sons o' Guns
as Margaret Patterson
1941
5.0
Keeping Company
as Mrs. Thomas
1940
6.4
Queen of the Yukon
as Sadie Martin
1940
5.0
The Lady in Question
as Michele Morestan
1940
6.6
The Mortal Storm
as Mrs. Roth
1940
7.2
Everybody's Hobby
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
1939
5.7
🎬
The Right Way
as Mrs. Martin
1939
0.0
That Certain Age
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
1938
5.1
Hollywood Handicap
as Woman at Racetrack
1938
4.5
Manhattan Tower
as Ann Burns
1932
5.9
Her Mad Night
as Joan Manners
1932
1.0
Down To Earth
as Idy Peters
1932
7.0
The Champ
as Linda Carleton
1931
7.1
Wicked
as Mrs. Luther
1931
4.7
The Mad Parade
as Mrs. Schuyler
1931
6.0
Five and Ten
as Jenny Rarick
1931
6.2
Strangers May Kiss
as Celia
1931
5.1
Father's Son
as Ruth Emory
1931
0.0
Beau Ideal
as Lady Brandon
1931
4.0
Check and Double Check
as Mrs. Blair
1930
5.3
On Your Back
as Julianne
1930
0.0
So This Is London
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
1930
7.0
They Had to See Paris
as Idy Peters
1929
5.7
The Exalted Flapper
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
1929
0.0
Daughters of Desire
1929
0.0
Shanghai Rose
as Shanghai Rose
1929
0.0
Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Carol
1928
0.0
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
1928
0.0
Women They Talk About
as Irene Mervin Hughes
1928
0.0
The Perfect Crime
as Stella
1928
0.0
Powder My Back
as Fritzi Foy
1928
0.0
Beware of Married Men
as Myra Martin
1928
1.0
The Silver Slave
as Bernice Randall
1927
0.0
The Desired Woman
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
1927
0.0
The Climbers
as Duchess of Arrogan
1927
0.0
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mrs. Cartier
1927
0.0
My Official Wife
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
1926
0.0
The Honeymoon Express
as Mary Lambert
1926
0.0
🎬
Silken Shackles
as Denise Lake
1926
0.0
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs. Erlynne
1925
6.8
The Pleasure Buyers
as Joan Wiswell
1925
1.0
Compromise
as Joan Trevore
1925
0.0
Eve's Lover
as Eva Burnside
1925
0.0
The Man Without a Conscience
as Shirley Graves
1925
0.0
My Wife and I
as Mrs. James Borden
1925
0.0
A Lost Lady
as Marian Forrester
1924
0.0
This Woman
as Carol Drayton
1924
0.0
🎬
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs. Barrington
1924
0.0
Captain January
as Isabelle Morton
1924
6.5
Being Respectable
as Suzanne Schuyler
1924
0.0
Cytherea
as Fanny Randon
1924
0.0
Beau Brummel
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
1924
6.8
Pal o' Mine
as Julia Montfort
1924
0.0
Boy of Mine
as Ruth Latimer
1923
0.0
Lucretia Lombard
as Lucretia Morgan
1923
5.0
🎬
Defying Destiny
as Beth Alden
1923
5.5
Rosita
as The Queen
1923
6.5
Michael O'Halloran
as Nellie Minturn
1923
0.0
Snowdrift
as Kitty (story)
1923
0.0
Brass
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
1923
3.0
🎬
Dangerous Trails
as Grace Alderson
1923
0.0
Brawn of the North
as Marion Wells
1922
0.0
The Ropin' Fool
as The Girl
1922
6.0
A Fool There Was
as Mrs. Schuyler
1922
0.0
One Clear Call
as Maggie Thornton
1922
0.0
The Trap
as The Teacher
1922
5.2
The Poverty of Riches
as Mrs. Holt
1921
0.0
Desperate Trails
as Mrs. Walker
1921
4.0
A Voice in the Dark
as Blanche Walton
1921
0.0
Boys Will Be Boys
as Lucy
1921
0.0
A Tale of Two Worlds
as Mrs. Carmichael
1921
5.5
Godless Men
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
1920
1.0
Stop Thief
as Madge Carr
1920
0.0
Jes' Call Me Jim
as Miss Butterworth
1920
5.8
The Strange Boarder
as Jane Ingraham
1920
0.0
Water, Water, Everywhere
as Hope Beecher
1920
0.0
The Street Called Straight
as Drusilla Fane
1920
0.0
The Spite Bride
as Eileen Moore
1919
0.0
The Blue Bonnet
as Martha Drake
1919
0.0
The Lone Star Ranger
as Mrs. Laramie
1919
0.0
The Silver Girl
as Julia Raymond
1919
0.0
A Man in the Open
as Kate
1919
0.0
A Law Unto Herself
as Stephanie
1918
0.0
The Girl in His House
as Betty Burlingham
1918
0.0