Joel McCrea Westerns Collection
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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.
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.
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CAST: (feature film)
1.
Tiger by the Tail (1970) Sarah Harvey
2.
Kissin' Cousins (1964) Ma Tatum
3.
The Disorderly Orderly (1964) Dr. Jean Howard
4.
Middle of the Night (1959) Her mother [Mrs. Mueller]
5.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) Mrs. Nesbit
6.
Susan Slept Here (1954) Maude Snodgrass
7.
Secret of the Incas (1954) Mrs. Winston
8.
Girls in the Night (1953) Alice Haynes
9.
Apache War Smoke (1952) Fanny Webson
10.
I Love Trouble (1948) Hazel Bixby
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Made acting debut at age seven as Little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Joined stock company after leaving school; member of Brissac Stock Company in San Diego, the Morosco in Los Angeles and Alcazar in San Francisco
1928:
Made Broadway debut, replacing the leading lady in "Skidding"
1929:
Film acting debut (bit) in "Lucky Boy"
1930:
First major film role in "Little Caesar"
1969:
Starred on Broadway as the mother in "Forty Carats"
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husband:
Thomas Richards. Married in 1920; divorced in 1929.
husband:
Henry Ross. Doctor. Second husband; married from 1941 until her death.
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father:
Charles Farrell. Irish.
mother:
Wilhelmina Farrell. Of French-German ancestry.
son:
Tommy Farrell. Actor. Born in October 7, 1921; father, Thomas Richards; officially changed surname to Farrell in 1932; survived her.
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