[1] In 1919, she married a young Canadian fighter pilot named Lionel Edward "Leo" Nicholson, and accompanied him back to his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[2] Rich's new father-in-law decided that she had a future in Hollywood, and he gave her $1000 of his own savings to fund her acting career.

[2] In 1923, Rich lost her financial support when her father-in-law became ill and died, and she did not produce any films until the following year.

Her career declined in the early 1930s, possibly because Rich's voice was not well suited to the new "talkie" films that took hold as sound technology became normalized.

According to her death certificate, she died of pharyngeal cancer, after an eight month battle, shortly after her 54th birthday at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.