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Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6804473. Source citation. Actress. Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, she had a successful career as a real estate agent and two failed marriages behind her when she broke into films as an extra in 1918. Her bedroom eyes and mature, patrician beauty made her a natural to play worldly women in scores of silent-era ...
Actress Born Irene Luther on Oct. 13, 1891 in Buffalo, N.Y. Died April 22, 1988 in Santa Barbara, CA. I rene Rich was a glamorous actress who played Will Rogers' nagging wife in 1930s films and read radio's World War II-era "Dear John" letters. She was a San Francisco real estate agent before she got her first movie job as an extra in Mary ...
Following her education, Irene pursued a career as a realtor. She had already married twice by the time she decided to become an actress and, by the "ripe old age" of 27, had begun working as a movie extra. Success came quickly for Irene and her first part of real substance was in The Girl in His House (1918).
Born Irene Luther on October 13, 1891, silent-screen femme Irene Rich came from a once well-to-do family in Buffalo, New York. Her father had a reversal of fortune while she was quite young and the family subsequently had to move to California. Following her education, Irene pursued a career as a realtor. She had already married twice by the ...
Apr 25, 1988 · Irene Rich, a glamorous actress who played Will Rogers’ nagging wife in 1930s films and read radio’s World War II-era “Dear John” letters, has died of natural causes. She was 96.
Reversing the usual procedure, Irene Rich was a successful real estate agent who became an actress. In 1918, she entered films as an extra, and soon was starring opposite the likes of Will Rogers, Wallace Beery, and John Barrymore.
Irene Rich Irene Rich was an American actress who worked in both silent pictures and talkies. Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures including Water Water Everywhere, The Strange Boarder, Jes’ Call Me Jim, Boys Will Be Boys, and The Ropin’ Fool. She commonly played experienced ...
