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