Irene Rich
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Fuerte Apache
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Dearie
Sylvia Darling/Dearie
Wicked
Mrs. Luther
Rosita
The Queen
Brass
Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
Being Respectable
Suzanne Schuyler
Snowdrift
Kitty (story)
The Climbers
Duchess of Arrogan
Keeping Company
Mrs. Thomas
Captain January
Isabelle Morton
Stop Thief
Madge Carr
Juana de Arco
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Angel and the Badman
Mrs. Worth
Everybody's Hobby
Mrs. Myra Leslie
La tormenta mortal
Mrs. Roth
Hollywood Handicap
Woman at Racetrack
The Trap
The Teacher
Manhattan Tower
Ann Burns
Beau Brummel
Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
That Certain Age
Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
The Champ
Linda Carleton
So This Is London
Mrs. Hiram Draper
Calendar Girl
Lulu Varden
Nueva Orleans
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Carmichael
A Lost Lady
Marian Forrester
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
The Lady in Question
Michele Morestan
Godless Men
'Black Pawl's' Wife
Strangers May Kiss
Celia