Glenda Farrell

Birthday: 30 June 1904, Enid, Oklahoma, USA

Height: 160 cm

Glenda Farrell began acting in the theater as a child. Her first major film role was in the gangster movie Little Caesar (1931) with Edward G. Robinson. In 1932, she became a Warner Bros. contract actor. She is perhaps best known for her role as Torchy Blane in the 1930s Warner Bros. film series, in which she appeared in seven Torchy Blane films. After leaving Warner Bros. in 1939, she continued to appear in numerous film, television and Broadway plays throughout the rest of her acting career. She won an Emmy Award in 1963 for best supporting actress for the television series Ben Casey. Show less «

[on the arrival of talkies] Not many actors could talk. So they shoved the ones that came from Broad...Show more »

[on the arrival of talkies] Not many actors could talk. So they shoved the ones that came from Broadway into everything. It all went so fast. I used to ask myself, 'What set am I on today? What script am I supposed to be doing - this one or that one? All I shouted for was a day off. We got it Sunday. But I had to stay in bed that one day to get ready for the next six days of shooting. I wonder if Jack Warner appreciated his movie-acting family? Show less «

Glenda Farrell

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