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Glenda Farrell
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Actor Born: June 30, 1904 in Enid, OK Death: May 1, 1971 in New York City, NY Biography:American actress "Glenda Farrell", like so many other performers born around the turn of the century, made her stage debut in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her first adult professional job was with Virginia Brissac's stock company in San Diego, after which she worked up and down the California coast until leaving for Broadway in the late 1920s. Farrell's performance in the stage play Skidding established her reputation, and in 1929 she was wooed to Hollywood along with many other stage actors in the wake of the "talkie" revolution. Uncharacteristically cast as the ingenue in "Little Caesar" (1930), Farrell would thereafter be cast in the fast-talking, "hard-boiled dame" roles that suited her best.
Though her characters had a tough veneer, Farrell was sensitive enough to insist upon script changes if the lines and bits of business became too rough and unsympathetic; still, she seemed to... Full Biography
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