Cast
Irene Rich
Acting
Cast
Irene Rich
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-10-11
From
Buffalo, New York, USA
Died
1988-04-22
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. 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.
★6.8
MOVIE1925
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs. Erlynne
★6.1
MOVIE1931
Five and Ten
as Jenny Rarick
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
★7.0
MOVIE1930
So This Is London
as Mrs. Hiram Draper
★10.0
MOVIE1924
A Lost Lady
as Marian Forrester
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Joan of Arc
as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
★5.7
MOVIE1930
Check and Double Check
as Mrs. Blair
★6.4
MOVIE1947
Angel and the Badman
as Mrs. Worth
★5.8
MOVIE1922
The Trap
as The Teacher
★6.7
MOVIE1923
Defying Destiny
as Beth Alden
★8.0
MOVIE1926
The Honeymoon Express
as Mary Lambert
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Dearie
as Sylvia Darling/Dearie
★3.7
MOVIE1928
Beware of Married Men
as Myra Martin
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
★8.0
MOVIE1942
This Time for Keeps
as Mrs. Bryant
★9.0
MOVIE1924
This Woman
as Carol Drayton
★8.0
MOVIE1929
Daughters of Desire
★9.0
MOVIE1919
Diane of the Green Van
as Keela
★9.0
MOVIE1923
Boy of Mine
as Ruth Latimer
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Everybody's Hobby
as Mrs. Myra Leslie
★9.0
MOVIE1939
The Right Way
as Mrs. Martin
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Michael O'Halloran
as Nellie Minturn
★9.0
MOVIE1918
A Law Unto Herself
as Stephanie
★7.1
MOVIE1931
The Champ
as Linda Carleton
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Compromise
as Joan Trevore
★8.0
MOVIE1926
My Official Wife
as Hélène, Countess Orloff
★5.2
MOVIE1931
Strangers May Kiss
as Celia
★7.0
MOVIE1924
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs. Barrington
★7.3
MOVIE1940
The Mortal Storm
as Mrs. Roth
★6.7
MOVIE1940
The Lady in Question
as Michele Morestan
★6.7
MOVIE1947
New Orleans
as Mrs. Rutledge Smith
★7.0
MOVIE1922
One Clear Call
as Maggie Thornton
★7.0
MOVIE1924
Beau Brummel
as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Eve's Lover
as Eva Burnside
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Father's Son
as Ruth Emory
★5.5
MOVIE1938
That Certain Age
as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
★7.5
MOVIE1932
Down To Earth
as Idy Peters
★4.8
MOVIE1938
Hollywood Handicap
as Woman at Racetrack
★9.0
MOVIE1924
A Woman Who Sinned
as Mrs. Ransdell
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Yesterday's Wife
as Megan Daye
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Ropin' Fool
as The Girl
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Carol
★10.0
MOVIETBA
The Yosemite Trail
as Eve Marsham
★8.0
MOVIE1922
The Call of Home
as Alix Lansing
★3.8
MOVIE1932
Her Mad Night
as Joan Manners
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Queen of the Yukon
as Sadie Martin
★9.0
MOVIE1927
The Silver Slave
as Bernice Randall
★6.8
MOVIE1924
Captain January
as Isabelle Morton
★6.4
MOVIE1929
They Had to See Paris
as Idy Peters
★8.0
MOVIE1930
On Your Back
as Julianne
★5.5
MOVIE1931
Wicked
as Mrs. Luther
★6.0
MOVIE1932
Manhattan Tower
as Ann Burns
★8.0
MOVIE1921
A Voice in the Dark
as Blanche Walton
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Pal o' Mine
as Julia Montfort
★10.0
MOVIE1920
Just Out of College
as Miss Jones
★7.0
MOVIE1919
Wolves of the Night
as Juanita
★4.0
MOVIE1920
Godless Men
as 'Black Pawl's' Wife
★10.0
MOVIE1919
The Silver Girl
as Julia Raymond
MOVIE1919
Castles in the Air
as Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
★8.0
MOVIE1929
The Exalted Flapper
as Queen Charlotte of Capra
★6.0
MOVIE1920
Jes' Call Me Jim
as Miss Butterworth
★7.0
MOVIE1925
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
as Mrs. John Mannering
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Calendar Girl
as Lulu Varden
★9.0
MOVIE1927
The Climbers
as Duchess of Arrogan
★9.0
MOVIE1919
Her Purchase Price
as Marda
★10.0
MOVIE1918
The Girl in His House
as Betty Burlingham
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Desired Woman
as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Cytherea
as Fanny Randon
★6.6
MOVIE1923
Rosita
as The Queen
★8.0
MOVIE1921
One Man in a Million
as Madame Maureveau
★10.0
MOVIE1922
A Fool There Was
as Mrs. Schuyler
★9.0
MOVIE1920
The Street Called Straight
as Drusilla Fane
★8.0
MOVIE1925
My Wife and I
as Mrs. James Borden
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Keeping Company
as Mrs. Thomas
★10.0
MOVIE1920
The Strange Boarder
as Jane Ingraham
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Three Sons o' Guns
as Margaret Patterson
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Lucretia Lombard
as Lucretia Morgan
★7.0
MOVIE1921
The Poverty of Riches
as Mrs. Holt
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Women They Talk About
as Irene Mervin Hughes
★6.3
MOVIE1921
A Tale of Two Worlds
as Mrs. Carmichael
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Brawn of the North
as Marion Wells
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Boys Will Be Boys
as Lucy
★7.0
MOVIE1920
Water, Water, Everywhere
as Hope Beecher
★5.0
MOVIE1923
Brass
as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
★10.0
MOVIE1925
The Man Without a Conscience
as Shirley Graves
★9.0
MOVIE1923
Hearts Aflame
★4.5
MOVIE1931
Beau Ideal
as Lady Brandon
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Desperate Trails
as Mrs. Walker
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Silken Shackles
as Denise Lake
★9.0
MOVIE1919
The Lone Star Ranger
as Mrs. Laramie
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Perfect Crime
as Stella
MOVIE1919
The Blue Bonnet
as Martha Drake
★7.0
MOVIE1920
Stop Thief
as Madge Carr
★7.0
MOVIE1919
The Sneak
as Enid Granley
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Dangerous Trails
as Grace Alderson
MOVIE1928
Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Snowdrift
as Kitty (story)
★10.0
MOVIE1919
A Man in the Open
as Kate
★9.0
MOVIE1919
The Spite Bride
as Eileen Moore
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Being Respectable
as Suzanne Schuyler
★3.7
MOVIE1925
The Pleasure Buyers
as Joan Wiswell
★10.0
MOVIE1929
Shanghai Rose
as Shanghai Rose
★7.0
MOVIE1931
The Mad Parade
as Mrs. Schuyler
★10.0
MOVIE1928
Powder My Back
as Fritzi Foy
★9.0
MOVIE1927
Don't Tell the Wife
as Mrs. Cartier