Glenda Farrell
18 titles
Filmography
18 results

Middle of the Night
(1959)A May-December romance blooms between a 53-year old widowed clothing manufacturer and an employee 30 years his junior, much to his family’s chagrin.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
(1932)James Allen is wrongly convicted for a holdup and is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life, but his landlady learns the truth.

The Disorderly Orderly
(1964)Poor Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis). He wants to be a doctor МИ but thatМ s not exactly the perfect career choice when youМ re hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move thatМ s guaranteed to keep the patients МИ and viewers МИ in stitches!

Prison Break
(1938)A fisherman is wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison, where a fellow inmate troubles his numerous attempts for parole.

Heading for Heaven
(1947)Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown.

Little Caesar
(1931)Edward G. Robinson stars in this classic gangster drama about man who ruthlessly murders his way to the top, controlling the mob as Little Caesar.
Gold Diggers of 1937
(1936)What's a chorine to do after her show flops? Become a gold digger! The cuties do so en masse as the Gold Diggers of 1937, kicking Depression Era blues in the keester. Dick Powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, Joan Blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer's pad and … well, who watches any Diggers for its plot? Instead, watch as dance creator Busby Berkeley turns a garden party into a tap-happy romp. Blondell leads leggy soldiers in a banner-waving, precision-formation "All's Fair in Love and War" spectacle that's Berkeley at his showy best as Powell croons a lullaby, "With Plenty of Money and You." In short, there are plenty of reasons to watch again and again.

Kissin' Cousins
(1964)Elvis Presley stars in a dual role as two cousins--an army lieutenantand a hillbilly whose land the military wants for a missile base.
Lady for a Day
(1933)May Robson plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra’s wonderful and enduring comedy/drama, based on a short story by Damon Runyon, with a hilarious and heartwarming script by Robert Riskin. When Louise (Jean Parker) announces that she plans to visit her mother to introduce her aristocratic fiancé, Apple Annie’s friends, including gangster Dave the Dude (Warren William), Judge Henry D. Blake (Guy Kibbee) and Missouri Martin (Glenda Farrell), rally around to transform her from a poor street peddler into the society matron her daughter is expecting to see.

The Talk of the Town
(1942)Escaping jail after being pinned for a deadly factory fire, Grant hides out in a house unknowingly being rented by a future supreme court judge.

I Love Trouble
(1948)Blackmail letters sent to the missing wife of a hotshot politician usher in a call to a private detective to track her down and dig up her past.

Susan Slept Here
(1954)During the Christmas holiday, a screenwriter takes in a runaway girl to help in his research on juvenile delinquents. But his subject turns out to be more woman than he bargained for!

Secret of the Incas
(1954)Charlton Heston stars as Harry Steele, an American treasure hunter moonlighting as a tour guide in the jungles of Peru. He is on a quest to discover the Sunburst, an ancient Incan treasure, that has the power to build and destroy civilizations.
Heat Lightning
(1934)The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive – two bejeweled divorcees and Olga's old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that also includes Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly, FrankMcHugh and Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) ramps up pre-Code wisecracking and vise-like tension into an emotional wallop of an ending.

City Without Men
(1943)On the brink of Pearl Harbor, a woman living with convicts’ wives in a boarding house fights to free her wrongly accused fiancé from death row.

Lulu Belle
(1948)A Mississippi torch singer attracts the enduring devotion of her attorney husband despite her penchant for rapidly moving through lovers.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
(1955)The true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a pretty showgirl caught in a love triangle.

Hollywood Hotel
(1938)If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola's look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction – and music, music, music. The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown's unofficial anthem Hooray for Hollywood. The jaunty Let That Be a Lesson to You shows off Berkeley's snazzy-jazzy mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – including Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums – swing, swing, swing into Sing, Sing, Sing. Hooray for Hollywood Hotel!