Irene RichFilmography

Joan of Arc

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Ward Bond, Robert H. Barrat, Jimmy Lydon, Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Kellaway, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the English, she Read More

New Orleans

Actors: John Alexander, Louis Armstrong, Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis: New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four decades, the story is a fanciful recreation of the "birth" of American jazz music. Arturo de Cordova plays Nick Duquesne, owner of a posh gambling house in Read More

Calendar Girl

Actors: Charles Arnt, Jane Frazee, James Ellison, William Marshall, Gail Patrick, Kenny Baker, Janet Martin, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving artist who lives next door. The story takes place at the turn of the 19th century and is set in Miss Rich's boardinghouse, the temporary home of many young artists and Read More

Angel and the Badman

Actors: Joan Barton, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Stephen Grant, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon

Synopsis: One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced. The star plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family. Attracted to the family's angelic daughter Gail Russell, the hard-bitten Wayne undergoes a slow and subtle Read More

Over the Waves

Synopsis: In this drama, a young groom finds his marriage in trouble when he begins working for his bride's demanding father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

This Time for Keeps

Actors: Ann Rutherford, Robert Sterling, Guy Kibbee, Irene Rich, Virginia Weidler

Synopsis: This Time for Keeps is a followup to 1940's Keeping Company, with Ann Rutherford repeating her role from the earlier film. Rutherford is cast as newlywed Katherine White, at present undergoing a rocky "period of adjustment" with her husband Lee (Robert Sterling, replacing the original film's John Read More

Three Sons O'Guns

Actors: Wayne Morris, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Tom Brown, William Orr

Synopsis: This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom Brown) and Kenneth (William T. Orr). Pampered by their pacifistic mother Margaret (Irene Rich), the Patterson boys do everything they can to avoid being drafted into the Army. Read More

Keeping Company

Actors: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Irene Rich, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's B-picture product. In Keeping Company, Morgan plays real estate broker Harry C. Thomas, blessed (or saddled) with three growing daughters. Mary (Ann Rutherford), oldest of the Read More

Queen of the Yukon

Actors: Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, George Cleveland, Guy Usher

Synopsis: This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to boarding school and then discovers that she cannot afford to be reunited with her. In desperation, she sells the boat to a wealthy mine owner. This results in the independent miners Read More

The Mortal Storm

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack

Synopsis: The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a college professor teaching in Germany in 1933 who leads a peaceful and contented life with his wife Emelie (Irene Rich), son Rudi (Gene Reynolds), daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan Read More

The Lady in Question

Actors: Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Brian Aherne, Irene Rich, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian family. Summoned for jury duty, Morestan at first believes that accused murderess Natalie Rougin (Rita Hayworth Read More

Everybody's Hobby

Actors: Irene Rich, Henry O'Neill, Jackie Moran, Aldrich Bowker

Synopsis: In this family-style comedy, the trouble begins when a good father loses his job at the local newspaper when the publication is taken over by a major syndicate. To support his brood, he becomes a photographer. Meanwhile his son pursues his own hobby as a ham radio operator. When an enormous forest Read More

That Certain Age

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Nancy Carroll

Synopsis: In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone to developing crushes against her best judgment. Her parents have taken in an intriguing house guest, Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas), a successful international news Read More

Held for Murder

Actors: Irene Rich, Conway Tearle, Mary Carlisle, Ken Thomson, William B. Davidson

Synopsis: Mayfair Productions had an absolute genius for coming up with titles that would drive away audiences. Wisely, Mayfair's 1932 epic Her Mad Night was retitled Held for Murder when it was reissued, resulting in far better business than the film had enjoyed upon its first release. Irene Rich stars as Read More

Down to Earth

Actors: Will Rogers, Dorothy Jordan, Irene Rich, Matty Kemp, Mary Carlisle

Synopsis: This sequel to the highly successful Will Rogers vehicles They Had to See Paris and So This is London details the further adventures of the nouveau riche Peters family of Claremore, Oklahoma. Oil millionaire Pike Peters (Will Rogers) remains his old "down to earth" self, but his family -- wife Idy Read More

Manhattan Tower

Actors: Mary Brian, Irene Rich, James Hall, Hale Hamilton, Noel Francis

Synopsis: This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank failures, love scenes and odd clerks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Strangers May Kiss

Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich

Synopsis: Norma Shearer stars in this pre-Code melodrama as Lisbeth Corbin, who is in love with Alan (Neil Hamilton), a globe-trotting newspaper reporter, but also strings along Steve (Robert Montgomery), a well-mannered local boy who is good friends with Lisbeth, even though she doesn't love him. When Alan Read More

Father's Son

Actors: Leon Janney, Irene Rich, John Halliday

Synopsis: Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Father's Son stars juvenile actor Leon Janney in the title role. Thanks to his predilection for stretching the truth, Billy Emory (Janney) manages to drive a wedge between his disciplinarian father William (Lewis Stone) and his sympathetic mother Ruth (Irene Rich Read More

The Mad Parade

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Marceline Day

Synopsis: This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The story focuses on nine Red Cross nurses, each from a different social background, who converge on No Man's Land to tend to the wounded and dying. Though their wartime Read More

Five and Ten

Actors: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Irene Rich, Richard Bennett

Synopsis: Based on a story by Fannie Hurst, Five and Ten stars Marion Davies as Jennifer, the spoiled daughter of department-store magnate John Rarick (Richard Bennett). Because Rarick neglects his family, they all manage to get themselves into hot water. Jennifer's mother, Jenny (Irene Rich), nearly runs Read More

The Champ

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from one tank-town bout to another in the company of his faithful son Jackie Cooper and his stuttering manager Roscoe Ates. Hoping for a comeback in Tijuana, Beery is approached by Read More

Wicked

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Theodore Von Eltz, Una Merkel, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband Tony (Theodore Von Eltz). When Tony is cornered by the police, Margot tries to protect him, shooting a policeman in the process. Sentenced to a 20-year prison term, the Read More

Beau Ideal

Actors: Frank McCormack, Ralph Forbes, Otto Matieson, Don Alvarado

Synopsis: Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier film's star Ralph Forbes and director Herbert Brenon for 1931's Beau Ideal, again adapted from a Wren novel. Something of a sequel to Beau Geste, the story concerns the Read More

On Your Back

Actors: Marion Shilling, H.B. Warner, Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: In this drama, a New York dressmaker struggles to make it big so she can provide a good life for her beloved son. As her son enters college, she opens a Fifth Avenue boutique. When her son falls in love with a chorus girl, the mother is appalled. Later, the girl finds herself a wealthy benefactor Read More

Check and Double Check

Actors: Freeman Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Charles Morton, Ralf Harolde

Synopsis: Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as A&A, partners in the Harlem-based Fresh Air Read More

So This Is London

Actors: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lumsden Hare

Synopsis: Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a significant change of locale. Although newly rich Texas mill owner Hiram Draper (Rogers) intensely despises all things British (dismissing the country as the land of "marmalade Read More

Ned McCobb's Daughter

Actors: Irene Rich, Theodore Roberts, Robert Armstrong, George Barraud, Carole Lombard

Synopsis: This very early talkie stars Irene Rich as the daughter of gruff old ferryboat captain Theodore Roberts. Rich runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George Barraud collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Rich, Barraud is allowing his bootlegger brother Robert Armstrong to use the Read More

The Exalted Flapper

Actors: Barry Norton, Irene Rich, Albert Conti, Sylvia Field

Synopsis: In this romantic fantasy, a delightful flapper princess refuses to marry her intended, a prince she has never met. Later she meets a young man, the prince in disguise, and falls in love. The queen is also fooled by the young man's disguise. She disapproves of the match and kidnaps the lad. He is Read More

They Had to See Paris

Actors: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill

Synopsis: Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore, OK (Rogers' real-life home town). Living in genteel but contented poverty, Pike and his family suddenly find themselves millionaires when an oil well in which he is Read More

Shanghai Rose

Actors: Irene Rich, William Conklin, Richard Walling, Ruth Hiatt, Sid Saylor

Synopsis: Ostensibly based on an "original story" by Arthur Hoerl, Shanghai Rose would seem to have been derived from the then-popular courtroom drama The Trial of Mary Dugan. Dignified Irene Rich is sorely miscast as the title character, the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder Read More

Daughters

Actors: Richard Tucker, Julius Molnar, Irene Rich

Women They Talk About

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Advertised as a talking picture, the 6-reel Women They Talk About contains only 2 reels of sound. Widowed Irene Mervin Hughes (Irene Rich) has a daughter named Audrey (Audrey Ferris), of marriageable age. The same is true of widower John Harrison (Anders Randolph), whose son Steve (William Read More

Beware of Married Men

Actors: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Irene Rich plays the secretary to divorce lawyer Rush Hughes. Though in love with her boss, Rich resists marriage, having been soured on matrimony by Hughes' cheating clients. Meanwhile, Rich's kid-sister Myrna Loy is being squired by a married man, whose wife has dispatched detective Clyde Cook Read More

The Perfect Crime

Actors: Clive Brook, Irene Rich, Ethel Wales, Carroll Nye, Gladys McConnell

Craig's Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these was filmed in 1928, with Cecil B. DeMille's talented brother William in the director's chair. Irene Rich stars as Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and Read More

Powder My Back

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, André Beranger, Anders Randolph, Carroll Nye

Don't Tell the Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, William Demarest, Otis Harlan

Synopsis: The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry (William Demarest). While in Paris, Henry begins squiring the coquettish Suzanne (Lilyan Tashman), who throws him over in Read More

Dearie

Actors: Anders Randolph, Irene Rich, William Collier, Jr., Edna Murphy, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub entertainer who willingly sacrifices her own health, wealth and happiness for the sake of her son Stephen (William Collier Jr.) Alas, the ungrateful boy grows up despising his Read More

Climbers

Actors: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Forrest Stanley, Flobelle Fairbanks, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in contemporary America, the 1927 movie version was transplanted to the Spanish Empire, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII (Max Barwyn). In her efforts to enrich herself and Read More

The Silver Slave

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: The Silver Slave is Bernice Randall (Irene Rich), who marries for money rather than love. This she has done for the sake of her daughter Janet (Audrey Ferris), who nonetheless grows up despising her mother. As an act of defiance, Janet becomes engaged to Philip Caldwell (John Miljan), a no-good Read More

Desired Woman

Actors: Irene Rich, William Russell, William Collier, Jr., John Miljan, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Even in the early stages of his Warner Bros. career, director Michael Curtiz was eager and willing to tackle any sort of story tossed his way. Based on an original by Mark Canfield (a pseudonym for Darryl F. Zanuck), The Desired Woman is a standard stiff-upper-lip military drama set at a remote Read More

Silken Shackles

Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, Bertram Marburgh, Victor Varconi, Evelyn Selbie

Synopsis: Flighty Denise Lake (Irene Rich) tries to be faithful to her husband Howard (Huntley Gordon), but while vacationing in Hungary she falls for a shabby violinist named Tade Adrian (Victor Varconi), who claims to be of noble birth. Her understanding hubby allows Denise to have her fling but arranges Read More

Honeymoon Express

Actors: Irene Rich, Willard Louis, Holmes Herbert, Virginia Lee Corbin, Helene Costello, Harold Goodwin

Synopsis: Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife Irene Rich busies herself with her grown children. Following the example set by Louis, the kids indulge in their own hedonistic pleasures, leaving Rich all alone. Finally Read More

Compromise

Actors: Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Louise Fazenda, Pauline Garon, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome Clive Brook while Garon is off galavanting in Europe. When sis returns, she does her darnedest to steal Brook away from Rich. This time, however, true love wins out over Read More

Pleasure Buyers

Actors: Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Gayne Whitman, June Marlowe

Synopsis: The Pleasure Buyers was based on a novel by Arthur Somers Roche. Heroine Joan Wiswell (Irene Rich) finds her life at stake when she is implicated in a murder. Her original intention was to shield her brother Tommy (Don Alvarado), who may or may not have committed the crime. Now it develops that Read More

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, John Harron, Gayne Whitman, June Marlowe

Synopsis: Young Bob Mannering (John Harron) is out for a ride with his fast-living pals when they're involved in a car accident which kills a woman. Even though Diane Graham (Elinor Faire) was driving the car, she accuses Bob of being behind the wheel. Bob's father, John (Huntley Gordon), is the district Read More

Eve's Lover

Actors: Irene Rich, Bert Lytell, Willard Louis

Synopsis: After cutting his teeth on Mack Sennett comedies, this drama became Roy Del Ruth's first serious film. Eve Burnside (Irene Rich) owns a successful steel factory and has no interest in love -- that is, until she meets Baron Maddox (Bert Lytell). What she doesn't realize is that Maddox has been sent Read More

Lady Windermere's Fan

Actors: Ronald Colman, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director Ernst Lubitsch substitutes verbal wit for the visual variety in his 1925 filmization of Lady Windermere's Fan. Ronald Colman has one of his first important screen roles as Read More

Man without a Conscience

Synopsis: Willard Lewis, who had made an impression while supporting John Barrymore in Beau Brummel, plays the highly unsympathetic title character in this undistinguished society drama. The ruthlessly ambitious Amos Mason (Lewis) comes to Manhattan with his fiancée, Ann Sherman (June Marlowe). He uses Read More

My Wife and I

Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, John Harron, John Roche, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: As their 25th anniversary approaches, Stuart Borden (Huntley Gordon) and his wife (Irene Rich) are not exactly happily married. In addition to the boredom they feel, there is also the issue of their grown son, Stuart Jr. (John Harron). Young Stuart is in love with Betty Allen (Constance Bennett) Read More

Captain January

Actors: Baby Peggy, Hobart Bosworth, Irene Rich, Lincoln Stedman

Synopsis: Lighthouse keeper Jeremiah Judkins (Hobart Bosworth) rescues a little girl (Baby Peggy) from a storm. The girl, called Captain January, unabashedly adores her adopted father and loves her life at the lighthouse. Judkins prevents the villagers from taking her away from him, but he can't stop her Read More

Being Respectable

Actors: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Louise Fazenda, Irene Rich, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles (Monte Blue), falls for flapper Valerie Winship (Marie Prevost). When he finds an opportunity to trick Charles into becoming engaged to Suzanne Schuyler (Irene Rich), the two have no Read More

Beau Brummell

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Irene Rich, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial splendor and quick wit, Brummel is a favorite of the Prince of Wales (Willard Louis)--and with several ladies, though his heart belongs to the beautiful, unobtainable Lady Read More

Cytherea

Actors: Alma Rubens, Norman Kerry, Irene Rich, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than it really was. Based on a novel by Joseph Hergesheimer, the film stars Lewis Stone as a socialite who grows bored with his lifestyle and his loving family. Stone runs off Read More

This Woman

Actors: Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts suicide, but she is saved by Rose (Louise Fazenda), a woman of the streets. They go to eat at a disreputable cafe where they are joined by the wealthy Gordon Duane (Frank Elliot Read More

A Woman Who Sinned

Actors: Morgan Wallace, Irene Rich, Lucien Littlefield, Mae Busch, Dick Brandon

Synopsis: In spite of the depressing, often tragic, circumstances in this drama, director Finis Fox somehow managed to add in comic relief featuring the likes of Hank Mann, Snitz Edwards, Cissy Fitzgerald, and Hugh Fay. Wall Street operator and all-around bad guy Morgan Wallace has his wife (Irene Rich) Read More

A Lost Lady

Actors: Irene Rich, Matt Moore, June Marlowe, John Roche, Victor Potel

Synopsis: Irene Rich plays a selfish and tragic figure in this drama based on a best-selling novel by Willa Cather. Marian (Rich) is married to Captain Forrester (George Fawcett), an elderly railroad magnate, but she longs for the romance that is lacking in her May-December relationship. She finds it in Read More

Pal O'mine

Actors: Irene Rich, Pauline Garon, Josef Swickard, Willard Louis, Al Roscoe

Synopsis: This standard but solid programmer was put out by a company called C.B.C., a Poverty Row studio derisively called "Corned Beef and Cabbage." Later in the decade, the company would change its name to Columbia, and, under the leadership of tough, plain-spoken mogul Harry Cohn, it would become a real Read More

Brass

Actors: Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Harry Myers, Irene Rich, Frank Keenan

Synopsis: Although Moving Picture World claimed that director Sidney A. Franklin's work on this drama earned him a long-term contract with Warner Bros., it wasn't long before he was back directing Constance Talmadge pictures, and beginning a prestigious career at MGM. The story, based on a very popular Read More

Lucretia Lombard

Actors: Irene Rich, Monte Blue, Marc MacDermott, Norma Shearer, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was particularly exciting, Warner Brothers offered the alternative title, "Flaming Passion," to this Jack Conway melodrama. In the belief that his noble title will lead her to a Read More

Yesterday's Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Eileen Percy, Lewis Dayton, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: This drama -- slightly sensational and moralistic -- was typical of the feature fare put out by low-budget film company C.B.C., which became better known (and a better company) a few years later as Columbia. Irene Rich stars as Megan Daye, who, after divorcing her husband, Gilbert Ames (Lewis Dayton Read More

Defying Destiny

Actors: Monte Blue, Irene Rich

Synopsis: When Beth Alden (Irene Rich), the daughter of the prominent local banker, goes on a hayride with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue), a terrible storm forces the couple to take shelter at the home of Jack's parents. Lightning strikes the house, and Jack rescues Beth from the blazing building. Jack escapes Read More

Michael O'Halloran

Actors: Virginia True Boardman, Irene Rich, Charles Clary, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: This sentimental drama was based on the novel by Gene Stratton Porter, and Porter herself supervised the filming. Michael O'Halloran (True Boardman) is an orphaned newsboy who lives in a run-down tenement. He finds a crippled little girl whom he calls Lily Peaches (Ethelyn Irving), and takes her Read More

Boy of Mine

Actors: Ben Alexander, Rockliffe Fellowes, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Rich, Dot Farley

Synopsis: Before he became the king of bottom-barrel B pictures, director William Beaudine turned out several silent films of sensitivity and accomplishment. In Boy of Mine, Ben Alexander, a popular juvenile star who also appeared in Beaudine's Penrod and Sam, plays the son of wealthy, unfeeling banker Henry B. Walthall Read More

Rosita

Actors: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated German director Ernst Lubitsch (it was also Lubitsch's first American-made film). But at least the story, adapted from the novel Don Cesar de Bazon, came closer to Read More

Dangerous Trails

Actors: Tully Marshall, Irene Rich, Noah Beery, Sr., Jack Curtis

Synopsis: This obscure silent Western was a typical example of the pioneer spirit still alive in the 1920s. Producer Morris R. Schlank, director-writer Alvin J. Neitz, and a cast of fine, if unaffiliated, supporting actors travelled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to "shoot" this Northwest Mounted Police melodrama. Read More

A Fool There Was

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Lewis Stone, Irene Rich, Muriel Frances Dana, Marjorie Daw

Synopsis: With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder why the Fox studios decided to go ahead with the remake of this steamy melodrama which shot Theda Bara to stardom in 1915. But they revamped it (so to speak) and toned down Read More

Yosemite Trail

Actors: Dustin Farnum, Irene Rich, Walter McGrail, Frank Campeau, W.J. Ferguson

Synopsis: In this creaky, old-fashioned melodrama, Dustin Farnum plays a man who is too heroic to be believed. Two cousins, good guy Jim Thorpe (Farnum) and bad guy Ned Henderson (Walter McGrail) are in love with the same girl, Eve Marsham (Irene Rich). Even though Henderson comes out the loser when they Read More

One Clear Call

Actors: Milton Sills, Claire Windsor, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Rich, Stanley Goethals

Synopsis: Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the complaints from his sister, Maggie Thornton (Irene Rich), Dr. Alan Hamilton (Milton Sills) insists on befriending Henry Garnett (Warner), who runs a gambling hall. A young woman Read More

Brawn of the North

Actors: Irene Rich, Lee Shumway, Phillip Hubbard

Synopsis: After the success of The Silent Call, producer/director Larry Trimble and his wife Jane Murfin made another adventure film featuring their canine star, Strongheart. Strongheart is the title character, Brawn, a police dog who travels to the north woods with his owner, Marion Wells (Irene Rich). Her Read More

Marriage Chance

Actors: Alta Allen, Milton Sills, Henry B. Walthall, Tully Marshall, Irene Rich

Synopsis: This Hampton Del Ruth production is a very odd comedy-drama. Two sisters, Eleanor and Mary Douglas (Alta Allen and Irene Rich respectively), are both engaged to be married. Eleanor, who is about to wed district attorney William Bradley (Milton Sills), convinces Mary to break up with her fiancé Read More

The Trap

Actors: Lon Chaney, Alan Hale, Dagmar Godowsky, Stanley Goethals, Irene Rich

Synopsis: When he made this film, Lon Chaney's fame was already established, but he was only inches away from superstardom -- a few months later he would portray the title character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Trapper Gaspard (Chaney) is a French-Canadian innocent; all this changes, however, when he Read More

Boys Will Be Boys

Actors: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Sydney Ainsworth, Edward M. Kimball

Synopsis: Peep O'Day (Will Rogers) is the illiterate pauper of a small Southern town. When he gets the news from Judge Priest (Edward Kimball) that he has inherited a fortune from a relative back in Ireland, Peep's life changes overnight. He decides to use his money to experience the childhood he never got Read More

Godless Men

Actors: Russell Simpson, James Mason, John Bowers, Helene Chadwick, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: The crusty Russell Simpson and villainous James Mason portray a particularly evil father and son team in this intense sea tale, based on the novel, Black Pawl, by Ben Ames Williams. Black Pawl (Simpson) is an atheistic pirate who is headed to the States. In a foreign port, his son, Red -- who Read More

The Ropin' Fool

Actors: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, John Ince, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Russell Powell

Synopsis: Because he was unable to give voice to his earthy wit, Will Rogers' on-film appeal was a bit limited during the silent era. Producers often didn't know what to do with him and, in fact, when Rogers began producing his own films, he didn't know what to do with himself, either. That's about Read More

Man In Million

Actors: George Beban, Helen Jerome Eddy, Irene Rich, Lloyd Whitlock, George B. Williams

Desperate Trails

Synopsis: Based on a serialized novel by Courtney Riley Cooper, Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte, this sentimental silent Western was one of 26 collaborations between director John Ford (still known as "Jack Ford") and veteran stage actor Harry Carey. Drifter Bart Carson (Carey) becomes so infatuated with the Read More

The Invisible Power

Actors: House Peters, Irene Rich, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is harassed by a detective who is looking for one of the ex-con's former gang mates. When the con refuses to cooperate, the detective frames him and gets him sent back to the Read More

The Poverty of Riches

Actors: Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Louise Lovely, Irene Rich

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson (John Bowers and Louise Lovely), decide to start a family right away. While John Read More

Bill Fields and Will Rogers

Synopsis: This video double feature consists of early silent short subjects starring those two old Ziegfeld Follies colleagues, W. C. Fields and Will Rogers. Made in 1915, Fields' Pool Sharks is a crude knockabout farce, making very little sense until the climactic pool game. Most of W.C.'s more remarkable Read More

Just out of College

Actors: Jack Pickford, Molly Malone, George Hernandez, Edythe Chapman, Otto Hoffman

Synopsis: This light comedy was based on the George Ade play, and Ade in turn seems to have been inspired by It Pays to Advertise, because it's basically the same plot. Ed Swinger (Jack Pickford) has a college degree but no apparent skills. He wants to marry Caroline Pickering (Molly Malone), the daughter Read More

Stop Thief

Synopsis: Stop Thief was adapted from the popular Broadway comedy of the same name, with Mary Ryan repeating her original stage role. The story revolves around a pair of thieves, Nell Jones (Ryan) and Jack Doogan (Harry Mestayer), and their efforts to go straight. But before they can do so, Nell and Jack Read More

A Man in the Open

Synopsis: Dauntless Dustin Farnum stars in the rugged western Man in the Open. A retired sailor, Farnum heads to the wide open spaces, where he becomes a federal ranger. When not busy battling the villains, Our Hero dallies with such saloon-hall lovelies as Claire DuBrey and such sweetness 'n' light types Read More

Old Wives for New

Synopsis: The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by David Graham. Elliot Dexter stars as David Murdock, who after several years of marriage has grown as tired of his wife Sophy as she has of him. Casting about for new female Read More