Cast: Glenda Farrell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Glenda Farrell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1932 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Paul Muni · Glenda Farrell · Helen Vinson · Preston Foster
Plot James Allen (Paul Muni), just back from World War I, is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to 10 years of bruisingly unfair treatment on a chain gang. He...
8.0
2K votes
8.0
2K votes
High Tension
1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood
Plot Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
7.3
25 votes
7.3
25 votes
Lady for a Day
1933 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell
Plot Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society lady. This treatment of a...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Little Caesar
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Glenda Farrell · Stanley Fields
Plot The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Ronald Colman · Edgar Buchanan
Plot When accused arsonist Leopold Dilg escapes jail, he hides out in the home of old friend (and sweetheart) Nora. Nora happens to be renting a farmhouse to Supreme Court candidate...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Man's Castle
1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Spencer Tracy · Loretta Young · Marjorie Rambeau · Glenda Farrell
Plot Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
7.0
332 votes
7.0
332 votes
Johnny Eager
1941 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Robert Taylor · Lana Turner · Edward Arnold · Van Heflin
Plot Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. In fact he's as deep in as...
7.0
554 votes
7.0
554 votes
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Ray Milland · Farley Granger · Joan Collins · Glenda Farrell
Plot Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for...
6.7
282 votes
6.7
282 votes
Middle of the Night
1959 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Kim Novak · Fredric March · Martin Balsam · Albert Dekker
Plot Jerry Kingsley (March) is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer who falls in love with Betty Preisser (Novak), one of his employees. The employee-boss relationship is one hurdle...
6.4
111 votes
6.4
111 votes
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Lionel Atwill · Fay Wray · Glenda Farrell · Frank McHugh
Plot In London, a sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his employer proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As...
6.3
543 votes
6.3
543 votes
The Disorderly Orderly
1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Jerry Lewis · Glenda Farrell · Everett Sloane · Karen Sharpe
Plot When he flunks out of med school, Jerome Littlefield goes to work as an orderly in a private rest home where he wreaks havoc for everyone concerned. Dr. Jean Howard...
6.2
436 votes
6.2
436 votes
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Stuart · Alice Brady
Plot In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to...
6.1
62 votes
6.1
62 votes
The Secret Bride
1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Warren William · Glenda Farrell · Grant Mitchell
Plot Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of conflict...
6.0
29 votes
6.0
29 votes
Breakfast for Two
1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Glenda Farrell · Eric Blore
Plot Texas socialite Valentine Ransome sets out to reform playboy Jonathan Blair and also to break up his engagement with actress Carol Wallace. Happy-go-lucky Blair has inherited a big steamship company...
5.9
98 votes
5.9
98 votes
Susan Slept Here
1954 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Dick Powell · Debbie Reynolds · Anne Francis · Alvy Moore
Plot Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter (Dick Powell) who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquant Debbie Reynolds.
5.9
91 votes
5.9
91 votes
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon · Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Victor Moore
Plot Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Insurance salesman Rosmer Peck...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
The Secret of the Incas
1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Charlton Heston · Robert Young · Nicole Maurey · Thomas Mitchell
Plot An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the...
5.6
561 votes
5.6
561 votes
Lulu Belle
1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Dorothy Lamour · George Montgomery · Albert Dekker · Otto Kruger
Plot Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career...
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Bette Davis · Lewis Stone · Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell
Plot Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him...
5.2
42 votes
5.2
42 votes
Kissin' Cousins
1964 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Gene Nelson
Cast Elvis Presley · Arthur O'Connell · Glenda Farrell · Jack Albertson
Plot An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he...
4.9
25 votes
4.9
25 votes