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Aug 29, 2013 · Scene-stealer Glenda Farrell is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 29. A reliable – and very busy – Warner Bros. contract player in the ’30s, the sharp, energetic, fast-talking blonde actress was featured in more than fifty films at the studio from 1931 to 1939.
Torchy Gets Her Man: Directed by William Beaudine. With Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Willard Robertson. A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Glenda Farrell was an American film actress. Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era. Farrell began her career with a theatrical company at the age of 7. She played Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin. She paused at times to continue her education but appeared with a number of theatrical companies and in several Broadway ...
Two thoughts about Glenda Farrell “ Glenda Farrell was my Grandfather Cecil Rider's niece. ” — denise murphy, August 19, 2011 at 8:01 p.m. “ Glenda Ferrel deserves two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dynamic Actress. One of a kind. Once discovered she will always be remembered as a unique talent. In a league of her own.
Fly Away Baby: Directed by Frank McDonald. With Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver, Hugh O'Connell. Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Dec 3, 2014 · Whether playing a gangster’s moll, a hash-slinging waitress, or a fast-talking reporter, Glenda Farrell charmed her way into the hearts of America in the 1930s and 1940s and became a friendly well-known face on the new medium of television, winning an Emmy for an episode of Ben Casey, “A Cardinal Act of Mercy.”.
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Always wry, Glenda Farrell rarely had the same warmth as her fellow leading ladies, but few others could wrangle a putdown with as much flair. Her first role was in Little Caesar, the gangster movie that put Edward G. Robinson on the map, and success soon followed with pictures like I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Capra’s Lady for a Day.
