Colleen Dewhurst

Scott, and is the mother of actor Campbell Scott. Glenda Farrell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard. Dewhurst was married to James Vickery and to George C. She died from lung cancer and was interred in the West Point US Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York. She died of cervical cancer at age sixty-seven. She remained with the show until ill health forced her departure in November 1970. Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, but in the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with a summer home on Prince Edward Island. She was appearing on Broadway in a production of Forty Carats in 1969 when she was diagnosed with cancer.

Over the course of her 45 year career, she won a total of four Emmys, two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini Awards. Farrell went out of vogue in the 1940s but made a comeback later in life, winning an Emmy Award in 1963, for her work in the television series Ben Casey. Dewhurst also had a recurring role on the CBS TV series Murphy Brown, for which she won two Emmys. In this role Farrell was promoted as being able to speak 400 words in 40 seconds. Colleen Dewhurst (3 June 1924 - 22 August 1991) was a Canadian actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. She became one of Warner Brothers most prolific actresses of the 1930s, solidifying her success with her own film series, as Torchy Blane "Girl Reporter". Her brassy persona was used to great effect in Little Caesar (1930) opposite James Cagney, in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) opposite Paul Muni, in Havana Widows (1933) with Blondell, and in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) opposite Fay Wray.

Signed to Warner Brothers, she came to personify the wise-cracking, hard-boiled, and somewhat dizzy blonde of the early talkies, along with fellow Warner Brothers contractee Joan Blondell, with whom she would be frequently paired. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era, after establishing herself on Broadway. Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American film actress.