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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.
Filmography Tiger by the Tail
1970
Sarah Harvey
Details The Disorderly Orderly
1964
Dr. Jean Howard
Details Kissin' Cousins
1964
Ma Tatum
Details A String of Beads
1961
Character TBA
Details Middle of the Night
1959
Mrs. Mueller
Details The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955
Mrs. Nesbit
Details Susan Slept Here
1954
Maude Snodgrass
Details Secret of the Incas
1954
Mrs. Winston
Details Girls in the Night
1953
Alice Haynes
Details Apache War Smoke
1952
Fanny Webson
Details I Love Trouble
1948
Hazel Bixby
Details Heading for Heaven
1947
Nora Elkins
Details Ever Since Venus
1944
Babs Cartwright
Details A Night for Crime
1943
Susan Cooper
Details City Without Men
1943
Billie LaRue
Details The Talk of the Town
1942
Regina Bush
Details Twin Beds
1942
Sonya Cherupin
Details Johnny Eager
1941
Mae Blythe Edwarnowsky
Details Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
Torchy Blane
Details Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
Torchy Blane
Details Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Torchy Blaine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Details Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
Torchy Blane
Details The Road to Reno
1938
Sylvia Shane
Details Prison Break
1938
Jean Fenderson
Details Blondes at Work
1938
Torchy Blane
Details Hollywood Hotel
1938
Miss Jones, 'Jonesy'
Details The Adventurous Blonde
1937
Torchy Blane
Details Breakfast for Two
1937
Carol Wallace
Details Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937
Glenda Farrell
Details You Live and Learn
1937
Mamie Wallis
Details Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Fanny Morgan
Details Fly Away Baby
1937
Torchy Blane
Details Smart Blonde
1937
Torchy Blane
Details Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Genevieve Larkin
Details Here Comes Carter
1936
Verna Kennedy
Details High Tension
1936
Edith McNeil
Details Nobody's Fool
1936
Ruby Miller
Details The Law in Her Hands
1936
Dorothy Davis
Details Snowed Under
1936
Daisy Lowell
Details Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
Mae O'Brien
Details Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
Self
Details We're in the Money
1935
Dixie Tilton
Details Go Into Your Dance
1935
Molly Howard
Details Traveling Saleslady
1935
Claudette
Details Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
Betty Hawes
Details The Secret Bride
1934
Hazel Normandie
Details Kansas City Princess
1934
Marie Callahan
Details The Personality Kid
1934
Joan
Details Merry Wives of Reno
1934
Bunny
Details Heat Lightning
1934
Mrs. Tifton
Details I've Got Your Number
1934
Bonnie aka Madame Francis
Details Dark Hazard
1934
Valerie 'Val' Wilson
Details The Big Shakedown
1934
Lily 'Lil' Duran
Details Havana Widows
1933
Sadie Appleby
Details Bureau of Missing Persons
1933
Belle Howard Saunders
Details Lady for a Day
1933
Missouri Martin
Details Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
Glenda Carroll
Details Gambling Ship
1933
Jeanne Sands
Details How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
1933
The Golfer's Wife
Details Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
Florence Dempsey
Details I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932
Marie Woods
Details Three on a Match
1932
Vivian's Friend (uncredited)
Details Little Caesar
1931
Olga Stassoff
Details Lucky Boy
1929
Secretary at theater (Unbilled)
Details