Glenda Farrell
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.487 |
| Birthday | 1904-06-30 |
| Place of Birth | Enid, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As |
1970
Tiger by the Tail
5.2/5
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
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Tiger by the Tail
1942
The Talk of the Town
7.3/99
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-princ...
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The Talk of the Town
1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.5/129
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1931
Little Caesar
6.869/259
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Little Caesar
1954
Secret of the Incas
5.745/49
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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Secret of the Incas
1964
The Disorderly Orderly
6.3/76
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles fo...
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The Disorderly Orderly
1941
Johnny Eager
6.063/40
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Johnny Eager
1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
7.814/202
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s false...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1964
Kissin' Cousins
4.7/37
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets...
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Kissin' Cousins
1933
Lady for a Day
7.105/76
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...
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Lady for a Day
1948
I Love Trouble
6.306/18
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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I Love Trouble
1938
Hollywood Hotel
5.2/9
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her curre...
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Hollywood Hotel
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
6.4/46
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
1954
Susan Slept Here
6.14/25
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Ma...
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Susan Slept Here
1933
Gambling Ship
5.2/8
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new n...
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Gambling Ship
1933
Bureau of Missing Persons
5.6/16
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1937
Breakfast for Two
5.9/18
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and set...
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Breakfast for Two
1936
Gold Diggers of 1937
5.714/14
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conn...
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Gold Diggers of 1937
1934
The Big Shakedown
5.6/14
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical prod...
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The Big Shakedown
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
4.8/5
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Merry Wives of Reno
1937
Smart Blonde
6.2/9
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Smart Blonde
1935
Little Big Shot
6/2
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Little Big Shot
1934
Dark Hazard
5.4/6
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri...
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Dark Hazard
1933
Man's Castle
7/29
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
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Man's Castle
1959
Middle of the Night
7/29
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...
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Middle of the Night
1937
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
4.2/5
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more i...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1952
Apache War Smoke
3/1
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulle...
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Apache War Smoke
1932
The Match King
6.6/5
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipula...
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The Match King
1934
The Personality Kid
4.2/5
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Personality Kid
1953
Girls in the Night
6.4/4
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
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Girls in the Night
1932
Life Begins
6/7
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati...
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Life Begins
1935
We're in the Money
5.5/5
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve fou...
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We're in the Money
1933
Grand Slam
3.7/3
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Grand Slam
1934
The Secret Bride
6.3/12
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of b...
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The Secret Bride
1938
Blondes at Work
6.1/8
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...
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Blondes at Work
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet
4/1
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Miss Pacific Fleet
1936
High Tension
5.4/5
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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High Tension
1937
Dance Charlie Dance
6/1
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is s...
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Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Fly Away Baby
6.1/6
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
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Fly Away Baby
1937
The Adventurous Blonde
5.4/11
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...
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The Adventurous Blonde
1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
5.9/5
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...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
6/2
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
Torchy Runs for Mayor
5.8/5
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
1938
Stolen Heaven
0/0
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the home...
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Stolen Heaven
1935
Traveling Saleslady
5.9/6
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a...
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Traveling Saleslady
1933
Girl Missing
5/6
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June de...
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Girl Missing
1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.
6/11
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
The Keyhole
4.9/13
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The Keyhole
1936
Here Comes Carter
5/3
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Here Comes Carter
1947
Heading for Heaven
5.1/4
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't...
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Heading for Heaven
1943
A Night for Crime
3.9/8
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth...
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A Night for Crime
1935
Go Into Your Dance
7.5/2
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Go Into Your Dance
1934
Hi, Nellie!
6.5/9
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a s...
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Hi, Nellie!
1934
Kansas City Princess
4.5/5
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynami...
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Kansas City Princess
1936
Snowed Under
7/3
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...
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Snowed Under
1935
In Caliente
6.3/6
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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In Caliente
1933
Havana Widows
5.8/4
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Havana Widows
1938
Prison Break
5.1/7
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for...
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Prison Break
1938
Exposed
5/2
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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Exposed
1934
I've Got Your Number
6/5
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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I've Got Your Number
1936
The Law in Her Hands
5/3
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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The Law in Her Hands
1937
You Live and Learn
0/0
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as...
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You Live and Learn
1932
Scandal for Sale
7/1
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Scandal for Sale
1943
City Without Men
5/2
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she...
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City Without Men
1961
A String of Beads
0/0
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
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A String of Beads
1934
Heat Lightning
6.769/13
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Heat Lightning
1955
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.1/26
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but u...
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1938
The Road to Reno
2/2
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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The Road to Reno
1943
Klondike Kate
5.7/3
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
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Klondike Kate
1936
Nobody's Fool
0/0
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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Nobody's Fool
1936
Breakdowns of 1936
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Breakdowns of 1936
1932
Three on a Match
6.224/67
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...
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Three on a Match
1933
How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
0/0
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
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How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
1948
Lulu Belle
4.6/5
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his f...
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Lulu Belle
1944
Ever Since Venus
0/0
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a so...
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Ever Since Venus
1942
Twin Beds
2.7/3
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Twin Beds
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938
1948
Mary Lou
0/0
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie...
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Mary Lou
1937
Breakdowns of 1937
6/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Breakdowns of 1937
1939
Breakdowns of 1939
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Breakdowns of 1939
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
5/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
1929
Lucky Boy
4.667/3
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his f...
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