Glenda Farrell

Actor

Female

Born Jun 30, 1904

Hometown Enid, Oklahoma

Died May 1, 1971

Death Place New York City

Glenda Farrell was an American film actress.

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Henry Ross
Married 1941 - 1971
Craig Reynolds
Fling 1936
Tom Lewis
Dated 1935
Gene Raymond
Dated 1933
Jack La Rue
Dated 1933
Humphrey Bogart
Dated 1930
Robert Riskin
Dated 1930 - 1933
Thomas Richards
Married 1921 - 1929
Addison Randall
Dated
Mervyn LeRoy
Fling
Thomas Richards
Married

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Op Ed Columnist; Profits Before Environment
NYTimes - Aug 31, 2011

I wasn't surprised when the administration of George W. Bush sacrificed the environment for corporate profits. But when the same thing happens under a Democratic administration, it's depressing. With little or no public input, policies that benefit corporations regardless of the consequences continue to be enacted. No wonder an April 2010 poll from
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Sybil Jason Dead At 83: Warner Bros.' Answer To Shirley Temple In The '30s Alt Film Guide (Blog)
Google News - Aug 26, 2011

Among those were co-star Glenda Farrell in Michael Curtiz's Little Big Shot (1935), a crime comedy-drama co-written by future producer Jerry Wald (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda) and future Casablanca co-screenwriter Julius J. Epstein; Mervyn LeRoy's
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Joan Blondell On Tcm: Dames, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Alt Film Guide (Blog)
Google News - Aug 24, 2011

Joan Blondell has always been a favorite of mine, much like fellow wisecracking 1930s Warner Bros. players Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The fact that Blondell never became a top star says more about audiences — who preferred, say, Shirley Temple
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Film Series To Screen Warner Bros. Films Arizona Daily Sun
Google News - Aug 19, 2011

30: "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" directed by Mervyn LeRoy; starring Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell; 1932, 93 min., NR. This vehement social protest film, based on a true story, is a searing study of injustice that created a public uproar upon its
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1904 Birth Born on June 30, 1904.

TWENTIES

1925 21 Years Old She was in the cast of Cobra and The Best People with actress Charlotte Treadway, at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles, California, in 1925.

1930 26 Years Old Farrell was first signed to a long-term contract by First National Pictures in July 1930. … Read More

1931 27 Years Old … She dated Hollywood film writer Robert Riskin in the early 1930s and married Jack Durant of the Mitchell and Durant vaudeville team in June 1931. … Read More

THIRTIES

1937 33 Years Old 1 More Event

… Farrell would portray the character Torchy Blane in seven films, from 1937 to 1939 when the role was taken over by Jane Wyman.

1939 35 Years Old When her Warner Brothers contact expired in 1939 she opted to focus on her stage career once again. … Read More

FIFTIES

1963 59 Years Old Farrell went out of vogue in the 1940s but made a comeback later in life, appearing in Secret of the Incas (1954), the Charlton Heston adventure epic upon which Raiders of the Lost Ark was based a quarter century later, and winning an Emmy Award in 1963, for her work in the television series Ben Casey.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1969 65 Years Old She was appearing on Broadway in Forty Carats in 1969 when she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

1970 66 Years Old She remained with the show until ill health forced her departure in November 1970.

1971 67 Years Old In 1971, she died from lung cancer, aged 66, at her home in New York City and was interred in the West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York. … Read More

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