Glenda Farrell
Birthday: 1904-06-30
Place of Birth: Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). With a career spanning more than 50 years, Farrell appeared in over 100 films and television series, as well as numerous Broadway plays. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, and won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress for her performance in the television series Ben Casey in 1963.
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Tiger by the Tail
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for th...
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The Talk of the Town
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood fri...
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi...
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Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?...
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Secret of the Incas
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunb...
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The Disorderly Orderly
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice ...
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Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
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Kissin' Cousins
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army t...
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Lady for a Day
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanis...
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I Love Trouble
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past....
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Hollywood Hotel
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola...
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a ...
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Susan Slept Here
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gof...
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Gambling Ship
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross...
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor...
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Breakfast for Two
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted hi...
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Gold Diggers of 1937
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go...
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The Big Shakedown
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate kn...
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Merry Wives of Reno
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces....
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Smart Blonde
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma...
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Little Big Shot
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter....
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Dark Hazard
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...
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Middle of the Night
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite ...
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Man's Castle
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will sup...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe...
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Apache War Smoke
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursui...
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The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden....
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The Personality Kid
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success....
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Girls in the Night
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in N...
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Life Begins
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward...
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We're in the Money
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, b...
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Grand Slam
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winn...
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The Secret Bride
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann...
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Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
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Miss Pacific Fleet
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss ...
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High Tension
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h...
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Dance Charlie Dance
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unin...
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Fly Away Baby
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight....
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The Adventurous Blonde
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
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Stolen Heaven
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together af...
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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Girl Missing
Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow ...
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office t...
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The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame....
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Here Comes Carter
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals...
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Heading for Heaven
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airp...
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A Night for Crime
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fas...
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Go Into Your Dance
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters....
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Hi, Nellie!
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield wit...
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Snowed Under
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated t...
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Kansas City Princess
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie...
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In Caliente
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print....
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Prison Break
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemp...
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Exposed
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue...
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I've Got Your Number
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes....
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The Law in Her Hands
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob....
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You Live and Learn
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revu...
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Scandal for Sale
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million....
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City Without Men
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to...
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A String of Beads
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls....
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Heat Lightning
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discon...
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford Wh...
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Klondike Kate
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name....
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Nobody's Fool
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers....
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Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....
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Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...
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How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing...
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Lulu Belle
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets ris...
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Ever Since Venus
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwrit...
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Twin Beds
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr...
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Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....
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Mary Lou
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers durin...
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Breakdowns of 1937
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937....
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Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Lucky Boy
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants t...
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