Glenda Farrell

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Glenda Farrell (born June 30, 1904 in Enid , Oklahoma , † May 1, 1971 in New York City , New York ) was an American actress whose career spanned from the early 1930s to the early 1970s.

Career

Glenda Farrell has been on stage regularly since she was a child. She made her Broadway debut in 1928 . A short time later she went to Hollywood , where she started her first major role in the gangster film Little Caesar as a die-hard dancer alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr. caught the attention of critics. She signed a long-term contract with Warner Brothers and subsequently played in up to eight films a year, mostly sharp-tongued, often cynical women who fight for their place in society with a mixture of harshness and sarcasm. In the film I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , she was seen as a prostitute. In the next few years, the studio often used her as the heroine's best friend, who always warned the usually more attractive heroine in vain of wrong men and other wrong decisions. Examples were Three on a Match alongside Bette Davis , The Keyhole and Mary Stevens, MD each as an advisor to Kay Francis and Grand Slam , who showed her as a close confidante of Loretta Young .

She was often used as a reporter, for example in the elaborately shot in two-color Technicolor horror film The Mystery of the Wax Museum , in which she played the friend of the victim Fay Wray . In many films she shot alongside her friend Joan Blondell . In the middle of the decade she appeared as a reporter Torchy Blane in a whole series of mostly cheaply made program films. Her best-known roles included the portrayal of a hardened showgirl in the musical Die Goldgräber from 1935 . One of the few meaningful roles in later years was his engagement in witnessing the prosecution of George Stevens in 1942.

She appeared regularly on television from the mid-1950s and won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in 1963 for her portrayal in an episode of Ben Casey . One of the few film roles she played at the time was the role of Elvis Presley's mother in the comedy Kissin 'Cousins . In 1964 she worked on the side of Jerry Lewis in the comedy The booby on duty with. In 1969 Farrell made an appearance in the successful Broadway production of 40 Carats before she withdrew more and more into private life due to lung cancer .

Private life

From 1921 to 1929 Glenda Farrell was married to the film editor Thomas Richards . Their son was the actor Tommy Farrell (1921-2004). In 1941 she married the surgeon Henry Ross, with whom she remained married until her death. She died of lung cancer at the age of 66 and was buried in West Point Cemetery in New York.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Glenda Farrell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tommy Farrell at the Internet Movie Database
personal data
SURNAME Farrell, Glenda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Enid, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1971
Place of death New York City , New York , USA