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  Glenda Farrell biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American film actress.
Farrell went out of vogue in the 1940s but made a comeback later in life, winning an Emmy Award in 1963, for her work in the television series Ben Casey.
Glenda Farrell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard.
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 Glenda Farrell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In this role Farrell was promoted as being able to speak 400 words in 40 seconds.
She died from (Carcinoma of the lungs; one of the commonest forms of cancer) lung cancer and was interred in the West Point US Military Academy Post Cemetery, (Click link for more info and facts about West Point, New York) West Point, New York.
Glenda Farrell has a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Walk of Fame) Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard.
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 Classic Images: Glenda Farrell
Glenda was second billed as Marie Woods, the slatternly, spiteful landlady who rents to Muni after his initial escape, discovers his fugitive status, and flmails him into marrying her.
Glenda's role as Missouri Martin, a hard boiled night club owner with a heart of gold, who assists the distraught Robson in her time of need, was classic Farrell.
Glenda and I do the same type of role which means that she must share her honors with me. With most girls such a state of affairs just wouldn't work, they would want their honors all to themselves.
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 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Glenda Farrell (1904-1971) was the movies’ archetypal 1930s tough gal, an attractive blonde with a machine-gun dialogue delivery that made her perfect as a gold digger, tart-tongued best friend or, as in her series of Torchy Blane movies, a reporter who always got her story.
Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell was on the stage from her early teens and reached Broadway in 1928.
Farrell stayed with Warners until 1937, working non-stop there and on loan-out to other studios in films with the likes of Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis.
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 Acting with a Fake Moustache - Summer Stock with Glenda Farrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She went to Hollywood in the thirties as talkies were coming in and the studios were raiding New York for actors with voices, where she became a star as a wisecracking comedienne.
Glenda and I had a scene on a sofa in which I take her in my arms.
Glenda not only took it with good grace, but we had a big laugh about it later.
www.scrapbooksofmymind.com /acting_with_a_fake_moustache.htm   (580 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Glenda Farrell is also excellent as the wise cracking reporter who wont "stay in the car" so to speak and is determined to solve the riddle of what actually is going on in the museum.
Farrell had been in "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" and would go on to appear in a whole bunch of films as Torchy Blane, in which I assume she plays the same sort of tough broad she plays here as she steals the movie from the two stars.
Atwill is appropriately creepy, Wray screams with the best of them, and Glenda Farrell, as the wisecracking, adventurous reporter out to expose it all, steals the show with her lively, energetic performance.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301971779?v=glance   (2297 words)

  
 Wisecrackin' Dames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Glenda Farrell was the ultimate tough-as-nails wisecrackin' dame.
Farrell started on the stage as a child and worked steadily practically to the end of her life.
Farrell's work hasn't received much attention in recent years and the Torchy Blane series isn't available on video, but hopefully her sharp performances will someday be revived.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : A Night for Crime : Main
Glenda Farrell reprises her fast-talking girl reporter persona in PRC's Night for Crime.
Farrell is cast as Susan, a big-city sob sister who investigates the murder o...
Farrell is cast as Susan, a big-city sob sister who investigates the murder of movie extra Ellen Smith (Marjorie Manners).
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 Still in Love with Lucy
Farrell, who died of natural causes, was 82.
The son of actress Glenda Farrell, Tommy appeared in dozens of B-westerns and countless television programs.
Farrell is remembered by Lucy fans for his many appearances on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
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 Glenda Farrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After some stage experience, Glenda Farrell became a Warner contract actor...
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Find where Glenda Farrell is credited alongside another name
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 Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933 b 72')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mary tells Glenda she misses Don, and Glenda sends her on a vacation.
After six weeks Mary tells Glenda she is going to have a baby.
Mary and Glenda go to France, where Mary has her baby and adopts it.
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 Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 May 1 in History
Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 May 1 in History
Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
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 Mystery of the Wax Museum Review (1933)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One night, sculptor Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) is showing two gentlemen around his wax museum, which depicts various figures of historical importance such as Marie Antoinette, Joan of Arc and Voltaire.
As a viewer, you tend to be one step ahead - of course Igor, in Atwill's committed performance, has something to do with the missing body, as does his new wax museum, but as he shuns the more gruesome happenings from history, nobody suspects him of foul play.
Nobody except Florence, of course, and Farrell is a lot of fun to watch (and listen to) as she trades gags with the others, jumps at a toad while investigating the museum, or appropriates a few bottles of bootlegged whisky as compensation for her jitters.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=861   (640 words)

  
 Big Lou: Woman Across The Hall
In one of his earliest TV roles, in 1960, Louis Edmonds took a comedic turn as a hard-drinking playboy, acting with a star from Hollywood's Golden Age: Glenda Farrell.
As the TV movie begins, Edna (played by Farrell) pays a visit to her new neighbor, Stella, shortly after Stella moves in.
A couple of decades before starring in Woman Across the Hall, Glenda Farrell enjoyed a successful movie career, playing wisecracking dames in a slew of 1930s films including Little Cesar (starring Edward G. Robinson, 1930), and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932).
www.darkshadowsonline.com /biglou-woman.html   (446 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Mystery Of The Wax Museum -- Michael Curtiz - VHS
Flash-forward to 1933: New York City is plagued by several disappearances -- not only of live people, but of recently deceased corpses from the morgue.
Hard-boiled girl reporter Florence Dempsey (Glenda Farrell) browbeats her long-suffering editor Jim(Frank McHugh) into investigating these disappearances.
Florence rooms with Charlotte Duncan (Fay Wray), the girlfriend of Ralph Burton (Allen Vincent), who works as a technician at a new midtown wax museum.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=27616116031&itm=39   (376 words)

  
 slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Little Caesar
The gangland violence is kept to a discreet minimum, drawing its momentum from observing Robinson munching on cigars, bossing around his wooden co-stars, and gloating in corpulent joy as he moves up the mob ladder.
The subplot involving would-be thug turned professional dancer Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is so entirely lacking in heat that he and love interest Olga (Glenda Farrell) only succeed in blending in with the wallpaper.
The rest of the company includes stock characters like the tough Irish cop and the medium-level mob boss with no backbone—and if they innovated the clichés that defined a genre, they never succeed in pushing the envelope like the thinly veiled incest of Scarface, or the smash-your-face bullying and brutality of The Public Enemy.
www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=549   (597 words)

  
 Glenda Jackson Movies @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Movies on DVD with or related to Glenda Jackson.
With Jackson, Crutchley, Ellis, Hardy and Glenda Jackson
Click here for region 2 encoded Glenda Jackson DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
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 Glenda Farrell Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Wini Shaw, Grant Mitchell, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn.
Starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Ted Healy, Alan Mowbray, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, Edgar Kennedy, Ronald Reagan.
Starring Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Ellen Corby, Glenda Farrell, Alvy Moore, Mara Lane, Herb Vigran, Les Tremayne, Rita Johnson.
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 Variety.com - Reviews - Havana Widows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell are out on the loose as gold diggers again in the spicy surroundings of Havana, and Allen Jenkins is a low comedy character.
Completing the welcome package there are lively tunes, an abundance of undressed girls and just the right amount of slapstick fun to give it climactic vigor.
Blondell and Farrell are a couple of hardworking, underpaid gals in a honkey-tonk chorus, discouraged when they're suspended for small infractions of the rules.
www.variety.com /article/VE1117791531   (320 words)

  
 Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore, et al.
There are two perfunctory love affairs: the first, between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell (the two were husband and wife 1936-1944); the second, between Victor Moore and Glenda Farrell.
The latter gives rise to the only funny line in the flick: "double-crossed, by a fan-dancer!" Otherwise the movie leads to the traditional "the show must go on!" ending.
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 Glenda Farrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an Americann film actress.
She became one of Warner Brothers most prolific actresses of the 1930s, solidying her success with her own film series, as Torchy Blane "Girl Reporter".
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 Glenda Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters (2003) (V) (as Glenda Jackson MP)....
The Very Best of Have I Got News for You (2002) (V) (as Glenda Jackson MP)....
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 Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To those who don’t understand this, the major two-thirds of the film which center around girl reporter Glenda Farrell (who is the real star of the show rather than Fay Wray) prove rather dull.
In themselves these newspaper scenes are not at all unenjoyable with Farrell giving a wonderfully boisterous performance and the dialogue in these scenes being wonderfully snappily tuned.
And when the film finally emerges as horror at the end it does with suitably entertaining regard, building to a classic Grand Guignol climax.
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 Personality Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An odd, little fight film about a flashy middleweight, Ritzy McCarty (O'Brien), who seems to be more colorful than he is talented.
Ritzy ends up getting in trouble in not only the boxing world but also with his wife/manager (Farrell).
Early boxing scenes are a very unusual combination of boxing and dancing.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Park/1568/PersonalityKid.htm   (96 words)

  
 Apache
The passengers include Major Dekker (Douglas Dumbrille), now reunited with his daughter, Nancy (Barbara Ruick), who has been awaiting his arrival at the station and has fallen in love with Tom.
Fanny Webson (Glenda Farrell); Cyril Snowden (Gene Lockhart), officious executive of the stage company; and his companion, Lorraine Seyburn (Patricia Tiernan), who only a year ago had spurned Tom.
The last we see of Peso, he is riding along a trail that just happens to parallel the stage road.
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 Little Caesar movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
A small-time hood rises to become a gangland czar, but his downfall is as rapid as his rise.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; DIRECTED BY: Mervyn LeRoy; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Gaetano Antonio "Tony" Gaudio.
Review: A small-time hood rises to become a gangland czar, but his downfall is as rapid as his rise.
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 Torchy Blane
As played by Glenda Farrell, Torchy more or less embodied everyone's notion of what a female reporter looked and sounded like for that era -- fast-talking and feisty, self-confident and even cocky.
Farrell co-starred with Barton MacLane as MacBride in all but two of the films.
Lola Lane and Paul Kelly took over in Torchy Blane in Panama (1938) and Jane Wyman and Allen Jenkins paired in the final film of the series, Torchy Plays with Dynamite (1939).
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 dOc DVD Review: The Talk of the Town (1942)
All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not”.
Every self-proclaimed movie expert has a weak link and in the case of this reviewer, it's a lack of exposure to the works of director George Stevens.
Still, there's a lot to admire in the film: Good supporting performances including the likes of Edgar Buchannan, the always underrated Glenda Farrell and a very young, energetic Lloyd Bridges; Otto Meyer's slick editing; and of course, Stevens' tight direction, which would flourish in much better films in years to come.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4501   (911 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: House of Wax
Here she's the girl who gets placed on the slab to receive the boiling wax.
Glenda Farrell is a fast-talking reporter dame with the brass and spunk to crack the case of murders and body-snatching.
This was one of eight films released that year directed by Michael Curtiz, which may explain why he doesn't display the exuberant craft that distinguishes his later greats such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, or Casablanca.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/h/houseofwax.q.shtml   (869 words)

  
 Amazon.com: I Am a Fugitive from A Chain Gang (1932) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He seems to have a fresh start and slowly works his way up in consruction to become a prominent and respected member of the community, helping Chicago become a great city.
But fate forms a dark cloud once more in the form of Marie (Glenda Farrel), a self absorbed girl who flmails him into marriage when she accidently learns his secret.
Her hard drinking and free spending lifestyle and her free loving ways are only made bearable when he meets the wonderful Helen, played nicely by the lovely Helen Vinson.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302308305?v=glance   (2833 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Lady For A Day (1933)
Enter Dave the Dude (Warren William), a local gangster boss with a superstitious streak who believes the root of his success comes from buying apples from Annie.
When he hears of the situation Annie has gotten herself into, he feels compelled to help out by putting Annie up in a hotel room and having his associates, led by nightclub owner, Missouri Martin (Glenda Farrell), make her over to pose as a lady.
Can Annie keep up the front and secure her daughter's happiness through marriage, or will the entire deception be uncovered?
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1799   (1299 words)

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