Irene Rich

Irene Rich

Born: October 11, 1891
Died: April 22, 1988
in Buffalo, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Irene Rich...

Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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New Orleans
Title: New Orleans
Character: Mrs. Rutledge Smith
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
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Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Mrs. Worth
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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Calendar Girl
Title: Calendar Girl
Character: Lulu Varden
Released: January 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
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This Time for Keeps
Title: This Time for Keeps
Character: Mrs. Bryant
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Margaret Patterson
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: Mrs. Thomas
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Queen of the Yukon
Title: Queen of the Yukon
Character: Sadie Martin
Released: August 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Michele Morestan
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Mrs. Roth
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Everybody's Hobby
Title: Everybody's Hobby
Character: Mrs. Myra Leslie
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
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The Right Way
Title: The Right Way
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by the society, and in a vision her husband warns her to protect their son. She explains to him the danger in the type of patriotic business practiced by the club, and he agrees.
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That Certain Age
Title: That Certain Age
Character: Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
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Hollywood Handicap
Title: Hollywood Handicap
Character: Woman at Racetrack
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
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Manhattan Tower
Title: Manhattan Tower
Character: Ann Burns
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
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Her Mad Night
Title: Her Mad Night
Character: Joan Manners
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.
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Down To Earth
Title: Down To Earth
Character: Idy Peters
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
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The Champ
Title: The Champ
Character: Linda Carleton
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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Wicked
Title: Wicked
Character: Mrs. Luther
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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The Mad Parade
Title: The Mad Parade
Character: Mrs. Schuyler
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
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Five and Ten
Title: Five and Ten
Character: Jenny Rarick
Released: June 13, 1931
Type: Movie
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
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Strangers May Kiss
Title: Strangers May Kiss
Character: Celia
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
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Father's Son
Title: Father's Son
Character: Ruth Emory
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Lady Brandon
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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Check and Double Check
Title: Check and Double Check
Character: Mrs. Blair
Released: October 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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On Your Back
Title: On Your Back
Character: Julianne
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.
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So This Is London
Title: So This Is London
Character: Mrs. Hiram Draper
Released: May 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
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They Had to See Paris
Title: They Had to See Paris
Character: Mrs. Idy Peters
Released: September 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Daughters of Desire
Title: Daughters of Desire
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
When widowed attorney Richard Tucker refuses to defend bootlegger Julius Molnar in court, the latter swears revenge. Tucker pays no heed to Molnar, concentrating instead on his impending marriage to his secretary Irene Rich. After his release from prison, the bootlegger begins his campaign of vengeance by leading Tucker's beloved daughter Janet Vale astray.
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Shanghai Rose
Title: Shanghai Rose
Character: Shanghai Rose
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Shanghai Rose is the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder occurs, and she is put on trial for her life. A series of flashbacks "reconstruct" the crime from several different points of view -- and as the story progresses, it becomes less and less obvious that Rich is the guilty party.
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
Title: Ned McCobb's Daughter
Character: Carol
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his bootlegger brother to use the house as a hiding place for his liquor.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Harriet Craig
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are opened when he is implicated in a double murder...
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Women They Talk About
Title: Women They Talk About
Character: Irene Mervin Hughes
Released: August 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
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The Perfect Crime
Title: The Perfect Crime
Character: Stella
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
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Powder My Back
Title: Powder My Back
Character: Fritzi Foy
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, determines to revenge herself on Hale. Gaining entrance to his home by pretending to be injured in an automobile accident, Fritzi has Claude, her press agent, masquerade as a doctor and advise that she should not be disturbed until she has completely recovered. Hale is enraged, but his son, Jack, falls in love with Fritzi though he is already engaged to Ruth Stevens, an attractive flapper. When she sees that her plan has caused unhappiness for an innocent person, Fritzi dissuades Jack, who returns to his old sweetheart; she ends up with the mayor.
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Beware of Married Men
Title: Beware of Married Men
Character: Myra Martin
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seeing a newly released comedy by Warner Bros., suggestively entitled Beware of Married Men. Since director Archie Mayo (The Petrified Forest) helmed this feature during the dying days of the silent era, the studio sought to enhance its commercial viability by embellishing the shot-silent picture with a synchronized music and effects soundtrack using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Ultimately, these efforts went for naught, as the picture failed at the box office and quickly disappeared from theaters.
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The Silver Slave
Title: The Silver Slave
Character: Bernice Randall
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
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The Desired Woman
Title: The Desired Woman
Character: Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
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The Climbers
Title: The Climbers
Character: Duchess of Arrogan
Released: May 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
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Don't Tell the Wife
Title: Don't Tell the Wife
Character: Mrs. Cartier
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry. While in Paris, Henry begins squiring the coquettish Suzanne, who throws him over in favor of Carter.
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Hélène, Countess Orloff
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
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The Honeymoon Express
Title: The Honeymoon Express
Character: Mary Lambert
Released: September 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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Silken Shackles
Title: Silken Shackles
Character: Denise Lake
Released: May 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan
Character: Mrs. Erlynne
Released: December 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
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The Pleasure Buyers
Title: The Pleasure Buyers
Character: Joan Wiswell
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
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Compromise
Title: Compromise
Character: Joan Trevore
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
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Eve's Lover
Title: Eve's Lover
Character: Eva Burnside
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
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The Man Without a Conscience
Title: The Man Without a Conscience
Character: Shirley Graves
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Ruthlessly determined to succeed at any cost, Amos Mason ( Willard Louis ) comes to New York with his fiancee, Ann Sherman ( June Marlowe ). By unscrupulous dealings and with the use of Ann's savings, Amos meets with considerable success and casts aside Ann, who is forced to take a job as maid in the Graves mansion. Amos begins to court Shirley Graves ( Irene Rich ) and causes Ann's dismissal. Mrs. Graves ( Helen Dunbar ) persuades Shirley to marry Amos, despite her love for the penniless Douglas White ( John Patrick ). Ann marries James Warren ( Robert Agnew ), an architect, whom Amos hires to build a mansion, and Ann tells Shirley of Amos' previous perfidy. Shirley has an affair with Douglas White but becomes disgusted with illicit sex when she believes him to be unfaithful to her. Amos' schemes fall flat, and he is arrested for swindling. In prison he repents, Shirley's attitude toward him softens, and they are reconciled when he is freed.
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My Wife and I
Title: My Wife and I
Character: Mrs. James Borden
Released: May 16, 1925
Type: Movie
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
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This Woman
Title: This Woman
Character: Carol Drayton
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: Isabelle Morton
Released: July 6, 1924
Type: Movie
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
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Being Respectable
Title: Being Respectable
Character: Suzanne Schuyler
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
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Cytherea
Title: Cytherea
Character: Fanny Randon
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Pal o' Mine
Title: Pal o' Mine
Character: Julia Montfort
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
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Boy of Mine
Title: Boy of Mine
Character: Ruth Latimer
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Lucretia Morgan
Released: December 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
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Defying Destiny
Title: Defying Destiny
Character: Beth Alden
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth Alden (Irene Rich), whose grateful father (James Gordon), president of the local bank, offers him a job. Middle-class Jack becomes head teller, joins the country club, and plans to marry Beth, but his upwardly mobile behavior stirs resentment. When he’s falsely accused of embezzlement the town’s upper crust turns its back. Jack endures self-exile until a chance encounter with a plastic surgeon enables him to return home incognito and seek vengeance.
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Rosita
Title: Rosita
Character: The Queen
Released: September 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
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Snowdrift
Title: Snowdrift
Character: Kitty (story)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.
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Brass
Title: Brass
Character: Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
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Dangerous Trails
Title: Dangerous Trails
Character: Grace Alderson
Released: January 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society belle
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Brawn of the North
Title: Brawn of the North
Character: Marion Wells
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Brawn, played by Strongheart, rescues a young woman from a snowstorm and a human killer.
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The Ropin' Fool
Title: The Ropin' Fool
Character: The Girl
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
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A Fool There Was
Title: A Fool There Was
Character: Mrs. Schuyler
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
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One Clear Call
Title: One Clear Call
Character: Maggie Thornton
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: The Teacher
Released: May 8, 1922
Type: Movie
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
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The Poverty of Riches
Title: The Poverty of Riches
Character: Mrs. Holt
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
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Desperate Trails
Title: Desperate Trails
Character: Mrs. Walker
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is her brother but who is really a husband who has deserted his wife and two children.
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A Voice in the Dark
Title: A Voice in the Dark
Character: Blanche Walton
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Lucy
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but Sublette, a crooked attorney, arranges for an eastern belle to show up as Peep's "niece" to steal his fortune.
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A Tale of Two Worlds
Title: A Tale of Two Worlds
Character: Mrs. Carmichael
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
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Godless Men
Title: Godless Men
Character: 'Black Pawl's' Wife
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
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Stop Thief
Title: Stop Thief
Character: Madge Carr
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. Soon after, articles begin to disappear and Madge's father, a kleptomaniac, begins to feel guilty, while the groom almost suspects himself.
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Jes' Call Me Jim
Title: Jes' Call Me Jim
Character: Miss Butterworth
Released: May 23, 1920
Type: Movie
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum. Miss Butterworth convinces Jim that Belcher, one of the town's prominent citizens, has incarcerated Paul to steal the patents from his inventions. Jim breaks into the asylum and spirits away the enfeebled inventor......
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The Strange Boarder
Title: The Strange Boarder
Character: Jane Ingraham
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Honest Arizona rancher Sam Gardner, goes with his motherless son Billy to the city, where he is cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a band of crooks. Taking up residence in a boardinghouse where he meets Jane Ingraham, Sam decides that the only way to regain his losses is by gambling. To achieve this, he makes friends with gambler Kittie Hinch who takes him to Jack Bloom's gambling house. When Bloom begins flirting with Hinch's wife Florry, the injured husband kills his rival and the evidence points to Sam as the killer. Jane tries to provide him with an alibi, but fails. Just as things look grim for the rancher, a wire arrives from Hinch, now in Mexico, confessing to the crime. His faith in mankind thus rewarded, Sam is free to marry Jane
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Title: Water, Water, Everywhere
Character: Hope Beecher
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
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The Street Called Straight
Title: The Street Called Straight
Character: Drusilla Fane
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The Spite Bride
Title: The Spite Bride
Character: Eileen Moore
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence.
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The Blue Bonnet
Title: The Blue Bonnet
Character: Martha Drake
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Mrs. Laramie
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
In this western, William Farnum plays yet another Zane Grey character. Duane Steele (Farnum) is a Texas Ranger who is determined to get the outlaws out of his part of the Lone Star state for good.
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The Silver Girl
Title: The Silver Girl
Character: Julia Raymond
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of gratitude Anne marries him, even though she is half his age.
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A Man in the Open
Title: A Man in the Open
Character: Kate
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
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A Law Unto Herself
Title: A Law Unto Herself
Character: Stephanie
Released: August 19, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Bertrand Duroc, the humble overseer of her father's estate. His pride wounded, Von Klassner murders Duroc and shifts the blame to marauding poachers.
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The Girl in His House
Title: The Girl in His House
Character: Betty Burlingham
Released: June 24, 1918
Type: Movie
When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years later, Armitage discovers that his former girlfriend has just become a widow, thus he sails back to America in hopes of rekindling the romance.