Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: June 30, 1904

Death Date: May 1, 1971

Birth Place: Enid, Oklahoma

Vivacious, immensely likable character player, memorable as dizzy blondes, wisecracking gold-diggers and hard-boiled gangster's molls in a string of 1930s melodramas and musicals. Starting with "Smart Blonde" (1936), Farrell starred as Torchy Blane, enterprising woman reporter, in a series of seven B pictures.

Credits

The Felony Squad

Guest Star
Jeanette Anderson
Show
1966

BewitchedStream

Guest Star
Hortense Rockeford
Series
1964

Kissin' CousinsStream

Actor
Ma Tatum
Movie
1964

The Disorderly Orderly

Actor
Dr. Jean Howard
Movie
1964

The FugitiveStream

Guest Star
Mrs. Maggie Lambert
Series
1963

Ben Casey

Guest Star
Martha Morrison
Series
1961

Dr. Kildare

Guest Star
Series
1961

Route 66Stream

Guest Star
Laverne
Series
1960

Islanders

Guest Star
Show
1960

Buick-Electra Playhouse

Actor
Show
1959

BonanzaStream

Guest Star
Series
1959

RawhideStream

Guest Star
Series
1959

Middle of the Night

Actor
Mrs. Mueller
Movie
1959

Wagon TrainStream

Guest Star
Belle MacAbee
Series
1957

The Alcoa Hour

Actor
Eloise Schroeder
Show
1955

Hour of Stars

Actor
Show
1955

El Escándalo del Siglo

Actor
Movie
1955

Djevojka na Crvenoj Baršunastoj ljuljačci

Actor
Movie
1955

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Actor
Mrs. Nesbit
Movie
1955

The Elgin Hour

Actor
Show
1954

Susan Slept HereStream

Actor
Maude Snodgrass
Movie
1954
43%

Secret of the Incas

Actor
Mrs. Winston
Movie
1954

Girls in the Night

Actor
Alice Haynes
Movie
1953

Apache War Smoke

Actor
Fanny Webson
Movie
1952

Tales of TomorrowStream

Actor
Series
1951

Faith Baldwin's Theater of Romance

Actor
Show
1951

Studio One

Actor
Series
1948

Lulu Belle

Actor
Molly Benson
Movie
1948

Mary Lou

Actor
Winnie Winford
Movie
1948

Heading for Heaven

Actor
Nora Elkins
Movie
1947

I Love TroubleStream

Actor
Hazel Bixby
Movie
1947

Ever Since Venus

Actor
Babs Cartwright
Movie
1944

Ciudad Sin Hombres

Actor
Movie
1943

A Night for Crime

Actor
Susan Cooper
Movie
1943

Klondike Kate

Actor
Molly
Movie
1943

Johnny Eager

Actor
Mae Blythe Agridowski
Movie
1942

The Talk of the Town

Actor
Regina Bush
Movie
1942

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1939

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1939

The Road to Reno

Actor
Sylvia Shane
Movie
1938

Blondes at Work

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1938

Torchy Gets Her Man

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1938

Exposed

Actor
"Click" Stewart
Movie
1938

Prison Break

Actor
Jean Fenderson
Movie
1938

You Live and Learn

Actor
Mamie Wallis
Movie
1937

Hollywood Hotel

Actor
Miss Jones aka Jonesy
Movie
1937

Adventurous Blonde

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1937

Fly-Away Baby

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1937

Breakfast for Two

Actor
Carol Wallace
Movie
1937

Dance, Charlie, Dance

Actor
Fanny Morgan
Movie
1937

Smart Blonde

Actor
Torchy Blane
Movie
1936

Nobody's Fool

Actor
Ruby Miller
Movie
1936

Snowed Under

Actor
Daisy Lowell
Movie
1936

High Tension

Actor
Edith McNeil
Movie
1936

Gold Diggers of 1937

Actor
Genevieve "Gen" Larkin
Movie
1936

The Law in Her Hands

Actor
Dorothy 'Dot' Davis
Movie
1936

Here Comes Carter

Actor
Verna Kennedy
Movie
1936

The Secret Bride

Actor
Hazel Normandie
Movie
1935

We're in the Money

Actor
Dixie Tilton
Movie
1935

Miss Pacific Fleet

Actor
Mae O'Brien
Movie
1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

Actor
Betty Hawes
Movie
1935

Go Into Your Dance

Actor
Molly Howard
Movie
1935

In Caliente

Actor
Clara
Movie
1935

Little Big Shot

Actor
Jean
Movie
1935

Traveling Saleslady

Actor
Claudette Ruggles
Movie
1935

I've Got Your Number

Actor
Bonnie
Movie
1934

The Big Shakedown

Actor
Lily "Lil" Duran
Movie
1934

Dark Hazard

Actor
Valerie "Va'l' Wilson
Movie
1934

Kansas City Princess

Actor
Marie Callahan
Movie
1934

Heat Lightning

Actor
Mrs. Tifton
Movie
1934

The Personality Kid

Actor
Joan
Movie
1934

Merry Wives of Reno

Actor
Bunny
Movie
1934

Hi, Nellie

Actor
Gerry Krale
Movie
1934

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Actor
Glenda Carroll
Movie
1933

Lady for a Day

Actor
Missouri Martin
Movie
1933

Havana Widows

Actor
Sadie Appleby
Movie
1933

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Actor
Florence Dempsey
Movie
1933
92%

Gambling Ship

Actor
Jeanne Sands
Movie
1933

A Man's Castle

Actor
Fay La Rue
Movie
1933
71%

Grand Slam

Actor
Blondie
Movie
1933

Girl Missing

Actor
Kay Curtis
Movie
1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

Actor
Belle Howard Saunders
Movie
1933

The Keyhole

Actor
Dot
Movie
1933

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain GangStream

Actor
Marie Woods
Movie
1932
96%

Life Begins

Actor
Florette Darien
Movie
1932

Three on a Match

Actor
Mrs. Black
Movie
1932
83%

The Match King

Actor
Babe
Movie
1932

Little CaesarStream

Actor
Olga Stassoff
Movie
1930
92%

Lucky Boy

Actor
Movie
1929