Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell

Nacimiento : 1904-06-30, Enid, Oklahoma, USA

Muerte : 1971-05-01

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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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Películas

Tiger by the Tail
Sarah Harvey
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
Caso clínico en la clínica
Dr. Jean Howard
Jerome Littlefield trabaja como celador y chico para todo en una prestigiosa clínica privada, pero siempre consigue enredar lo que hace y acabar con los nervios de la enfermera jefe. Ante la llegada de una chica que ha querido suicidarse, Jerome trabaja noche y día para pagar su habitación y lograr que el consejo de administración no la eche.
Primos queridos
Ma Tatum
Un oficial del ejército de los Estados Unidos trata de convencer a un pariente para que ceda su terreno y así la Armada pueda construir una base de misiles. Una vez allí, descubre que tiene un primo que se le parece muchísimo.
A String of Beads
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
En mitad de la noche
Mrs. Mueller
Jerry Kingsley (March), un hombre viudo y solitario, es el propietario de una fábrica de ropa, en la que trabaja Betty Preisser (Novak), una joven y atractiva divorciada de la que se enamora. Al igual que en "Marty" (1955), su opera prima, Delbert Mann vuelve a tratar el tema de la soledad.
La muchacha del trapecio rojo
Mrs. Nesbit
Nueva York, principios del siglo XX. Biografía sobre Evelyn Nesbit, una joven corista que realiza un número bastante popular en el trapecio. Transcurridos algunos años, es la mujer de un celoso millonario que no puede soportar los romances que tuvo su esposa en esa etapa disoluta de su vida.
Crime in the Streets
Mrs. Dane
Frankie Dane is the leader of a teenage gang, the Hornets. The gang makes trouble for people in the neighborhood, but Frankie carries a darker nature, one so filled with anger that murder is not beyond him. Ben Wagner, a social worker, tries to help the boys see the possibilities of a better life, but the task seems futile. When a neighborhood man turns one of the gang into the police, Frankie decides to kill him. Ben learns of the plot from Frankie's kid brother and hopes to stop it before Frankie ruins his life forever.
Las tres noches de Susana
Maude Snodgrass
Mark Christopher, un guionista de Hollywood, está escribiendo un guión sobre la delincuencia juvenil. El día de Nochebuena la policía le presenta a la joven Susan que va a ingresar en el reformatorio. Como es material de primera mano para su guion, Mark se hace cargo de ella y luego para que la policía no se la lleve al reformatorio, decidirá casarse con ella pero con la idea de anular después el matrimonio ya que él tiene novia.
El secreto de los incas
Mrs. Winston
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) y el oportunista Ed Morgan (Thomas Mitchell) llegan al Perú atraídos por la leyenda del oro de los incas. Según esa leyenda, el imperio de los incas fue destruido por los dioses cuando el fabuloso tesoro sagrado de oro y piedras preciosas fue robado del templo del Sol, hace ya varios siglos, y que se conserva en la tumba de Manco. Harry tiene un fragmento de un antiguo mapa de piedra que indica la situación de la tumba. Queriendo anticiparse a Ed Morgan, se apodera del avión particular del cónsul rumano y se marcha con Elena Antonescu (Nicole Maurey) a Machu-Picchu, en busca del tesoro...
Girls in the Night
Alice Haynes
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Apache War Smoke
Fanny Webson
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 pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
Destinos cruzados
Molly Benson
Lulu Belle canta en un local barato de Natchez, Mississippi, a principios de 1900, donde conoce al joven y prometedor abogado George Davis, quien renuncia a su novia y su carrera para casarse con Lulu Belle. Cuando se acaba el dinero, Lulu se va a trabajar a Nueva Orleans, a un club dirigido por el duro Mark Brady. Para deshacerse de George, finge que se ha enamorado del luchador Butch Cooper, a quien George, en un ataque de celos, lanza un puñado de tenedores a la cara. Lo envían a la cárcel y Lulu se va a Nueva York con el millonario Harry Randolph, que la convierte en la sensación de Broadway y le pide que se case con él, a lo que ella se niega cuando se entera de que George ha sido liberado de la prisión, pues es el único hombre al que realmente ha amado.
Mary Lou
Winnie Winford
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 Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
I Love Trouble
Hazel Bixby
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Heading For Heaven
Nora Elkins
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 long to live.
Ever Since Venus
Babs Cartwright
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 song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
Klondike Kate
Molly
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
A Night for Crime
Susan Cooper
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 solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
City Without Men
Billie LaRue
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 moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
El asunto del día
Regina Bush
Leopold Dilg huye de la cárcel donde cumplía condena por incendio, y se esconde en casa de Nora, una amiga de la infancia. Pero resulta que ésta ha alquilado la casa durante el verano a Michael Lighcap, candidato al Tribunal Supremo. Dilg, que se hace pasar por el jardinero, y Nora logran convencer al magistrado de que Dilg es inocente. Entonces los tres intentan atrapar a los verdaderos delincuentes; pero, al mismo tiempo, los dos descubren que se han enamorado de Nora.
Twin Beds
Sonya Cherupin
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.
Senda prohibida
Mae Blythe Edwarnowsky
Johnny Eager (Taylor) es un gángster que, para no levantar sospechas, lleva una doble vida: finge que vive en una humilde casa con sus parientes, pero en secreto continúa siendo el rey del juego ilegal. Lisbeth (Turner) es una inocente chica que conoce a Johnny y se enamora de él.
Breakdowns of 1939
Herself
Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy Blane
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.
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane
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 death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Torchy Gets Her Man
Torchy Blane
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.
Exposed
'Click' Stewart
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
The Road to Reno
Sylvia Shane
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Prison Break
Jean Fenderson
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 early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
Stolen Heaven
Rita
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the home of an aged concert pianist (Lewis Stone). To cover their tracks and keep the old man from turning them in, the thieves pretend to arrange his comeback concert. The artifice becomes reality, the pianist makes a triumphant return, and the thieves reform. This 1938 film is not a remake of 1932's Stolen Heaven, which wove an entirely different story about a suicide pact.
Breakdowns of 1938
Torchy Blaine (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Blondes at Work
Torchy Blane
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Hollywood Hotel
Miss Jones, 'Jonesy'
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 current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
The Adventurous Blonde
Torchy Blane
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Desayuno para dos
Carol Wallace
Valentine Ransome (Barbara Stanwyck), una rica heredera texana, está decidida a transformar en un hombre de provecho al joven Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall), último descendiente de una larga disnatía dedicada al transporte marítimo y con el negocio al borde de la ruina. Lo que 'Johnny' no sospecha es el precio que deberá pagar...
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Glenda Farrell
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 interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Dance Charlie Dance
Fanny Morgan
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 sued for plagiarism.
Fly Away Baby
Torchy Blane
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Breakdowns of 1937
Herself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Smart Blonde
Torchy Blane
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Breakdowns of 1936
Herself
Time marches on.
Gold Diggers of 1937
Genevieve “Gen” Larkin
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 conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Here Comes Carter
Verna Kennedy
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
High Tension
Edith McNeil
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Nobody's Fool
Ruby Miller
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
The Law in Her Hands
Dorothy Davis
A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Snowed Under
Daisy Lowell
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 Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
Miss Pacific Fleet
Mae O'Brien
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.
Little Big Shot
Jean
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
We're in the Money
Dixie Tilton
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 four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Por unos ojos negros
Clara
En un centro turístico mexicano, el editor de una revista que habla rápidamente se burla del bailarín que está en papel.
Casino de París
Molly Howard
La Leyenda de ”Broadway”, Al Jonson, y su segunda esposa Ruby Keeler, protagonizan este bello musical sobre una historia de bastidores. Recogiendo el mismo estilo que desarrolló en sus primeras películas, nuestro protagonista interpreta a un artista irresponsable, cuyas artimañas no profesionales acaban en una revuelta de sus propios compañeros de trabajo, hasta que la dirección lo despide del espectáculo.
Traveling Saleslady
Claudette
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 crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Gold Diggers of 1935
Betty Hawes
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
The Secret Bride
Hazel Normandie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Kansas City Princess
Marie Callahan
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
The Personality Kid
Joan
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Merry Wives of Reno
Bunny
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Heat Lightning
Mrs. Tifton
Melodrama que entronca con el estilo de cine negro que su director, Mervyn LeRoy, había adoptado en otras cintas como "Soy un fugitivo" (1932). Su argumento proviene de una obra teatral escrita por Leon Abrams y George Abbott, que se estrenó en Broadway en 1933. Considerada un antecedente de otra producción Warner, "El bosque petrificado" (1936), su acción transcurre en una perdida estación de servicio en California. Allí, durante 24 horas, una serie de personajes van a cruzar sus caminos con el nexo en común de Olga, la dueña del local. Ella se va a relacionar con una pareja de criminales, uno de ellos un antiguo amante.
I've Got Your Number
Bonnie aka Madame Francis
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Dark Hazard
Valerie 'Val' Wilson
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 Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
¿Qué hay, Nellie?
Gerry
En esta ocasión, Paul Muni –especializado en papeles de gángster– intentó un cambio de registro al encarnar al editor de un periódico que, firmando con el pseudónimo de Nellie, comienza a investigar por su cuenta el asesinato de un banquero. Sus pesquisas le llevarán hasta los bajos fondos, donde conoce a algunos mafiosos y a la rubia de rigor (Glenda Farrell).
The Big Shakedown
Lily 'Lil' Duran
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Fueros humanos
Fay La Rue
Melodrama ambientado en Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión.
Havana Widows
Sadie Appleby
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Belle Howard Saunders
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Dama por un día
Missouri Martin
Una anciana (May Robson) mantiene correspondencia con su hija, que vive en España, y le hace creer que es una gran dama de la alta sociedad que vive en un lujoso hotel. En realidad, es una alcohólica que vive de la venta ambulante de manzanas. Cuando su hija le anuncia que irá a verla para presentarle a su novio y a su suegro, miembros de una aristocrática familia, la desesperación se apodera de ella.
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Glenda Carroll
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Casino del mar
Jeanne Sands
Ace Corbin, cansado de una vida disoluta y repleta de malas compañías comienza una nueva vida con otro nombre y se aleja de su pasado en tren. Allí conoce a una joven llamada Eleanor que también arrastra un oscuro pasado...
How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
The Golfer's Wife
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
La mundana
Dot
Una mujer es chantajeada por su primer marido, ella planea un viaje al extranjero para librarse de él.
Girl Missing
Kay Curtis
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 decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Grand Slam
Blondie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Los crímenes del museo
Florence Dempsey
Tras una pelea con su socio, un frustrado escultor londinense contempla atónito cómo éste incendia el museo con el fin de cobrar el seguro y poder pagar las deudas. El artista queda inconsciente en medio del fuego, pero sobrevive, aunque con las manos quemadas. Años más tarde reabre el museo en Nueva York.
The Match King
Babe
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Soy un fugitivo
Marie Woods
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Tres vidas de mujer
Vivian's Friend - Mrs. Black (uncredited)
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
Life Begins
Florette Darien
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 situations.
Scandal for Sale
Stella
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Hampa dorada
Olga Stassoff
La película narra la trayectoria criminal de un hombre. Rico comenzó su vida ejecutando pequeños robos y terminó su existencia como jefe de la banda de mafiosos más importante de la ciudad. Película clave del nacimiento del cine negro americano, pues a partir de esta libre adaptación de la historia de Al Capone el género basado en el relato de gánsteres vería un gran auge en Hollywood.