Little Caesar
1931
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Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) [ 4][ 5][ 6][ Note 1] was an American actress. Farrell personified the smart and sassy, wisecracking blonde of the Classic Hollywood films. Her career spanned more than 50 years, and she appeared in numerous Broadway plays, films and television series.
Actress: Girl Missing. Glenda Farrell began as the archetypal wisecracking blonde in 1930s gangland films like Little Caesar (1931) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
May 2, 1971 · Glenda Farrell, who appeared in 122 movies, as well as in many plays on stage and tele vision, died yesterday in her home at 480 Park Avenue. She was 66 years old and was the wife of Dr. Henry...
Sep 10, 2013 · Character actor Tom Kennedy actually appears in all nine Torchy Blane movies as dimwitted Gahagan, McBride’s poetry spouting underling. Tom Kennedy in the foreground with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane likely listening to some poetry from behind.
Jan 29, 2015 · Eleven questions for film historian Scott Allen Nollen about his latest book, Glenda Farrell: Hollywood's Hardboiled Dame. She's much more than Torchy Blane.
Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American actress. Farrell personified the smart and sassy, wisecracking blonde of the Classic Hollywood films. Her career spanned more than 50 years, and she appeared in numerous Broadway plays, films and television series.
Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. She is best known for her role as Torchy Blane in the Warner Bros. Torchy Blane film series and the Academy Award-nominated films Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), and Lady for a Day (1933).
Buoyant, witty, blonde American actress with lived-in charm and long, pencilled eyebrows. Many cinemagoers' favorite wisecracking woman-of-the-world from Hollywood films of the 1930s, she is perhaps most fondly recalled as the intrepid girl reporter Torchy Blane.
May 16, 1971 · THIS morning, under a still ‐soft mound of earth overlooking the stately Hudson at West Point, there rests the body of Glenda Farrell, American actress.
Farrell portrayed Torchy in seven of the nine Torchy Blane films, including Smart Blonde (1937), Fly Away Baby (1937), The Adventurous Blonde (1937), Blondes at Work (1938), Torchy Gets Her Man (1938), Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939), and Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939).
