Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard. Her autobiography "How to Grow Old Disgracefully" was published in 1988. She died from lung cancer and was interred in the West Point US Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York. She is quoted as saying, "Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue." She died of heart problems and pneumonia in 1987. She remained with the show until ill health forced her departure in November 1970. She was a regular guest on television talk shows, especially Jack Paar's, where audiences loved her stories. She was appearing on Broadway in a production of Forty Carats in 1969 when she was diagnosed with cancer. In 1977, with conductor Karl Bohm, she won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals.

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. Armfeldt, which she reprised on film. In this role Farrell was promoted as being able to speak 400 words in 40 seconds. Gingold played the mayor's snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man (1962), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of Mme. 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". She also performed in the Broadway show "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" in 1963. 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. She sang "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier.

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. She won a Golden Globe Award in the 1958 movie Gigi for her role as Madame Alvarez, a retired Paris courtesan, who was Gigi's grandmother and mentor. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era, after establishing herself on Broadway. Gingold was introduced to US servicemen during World War II through the London revue "Sweet and Low." After moving to the United States in 1951, Gingold became a great success there as well. Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American film actress. They were to divorce in the 1940s. After her divorce in 1926, she married writer and lyricist Eric Maschwitz.

She married British publisher Michael Joseph in 1918, with whom she had two sons, Stephen and Leslie. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues. First appearing on stage in 1909, she was originally a coloratura soprano and performed in Shakespearean dramas such as "The Merchant of Venice" and "Troilus and Cressida" and worked with Charles Hawtrey as an understudy. Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, she was the daughter of an high-class Austrian financier and an English housewife.

She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897-May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove.