Glenda Farrell

 Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971)

Farrell was an actress of film, television, and theater. She is best known for her role as Torchy Blane in the Warner Bros. Torchy Blane film series and the Academy Award-nominated films Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), and Lady for a Day (1933). With a career spanning more than 50 years, Farrell appeared in over 100 films and television series, as well as numerous Broadway plays. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, and won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress for her performance in the television series Ben Casey in 1963. Farrell briefly retired in 1968, but soon decided to return to acting. Farrell's final work in her long career was the Broadway play Forty Carats. She was appearing in Forty Carats at the Morosco Theatre until ill health forced her to leave the play a few months later. Farrell was eventually diagnosed with lung cancer. In 1971, Farrell died from lung cancer, aged 66, at her home in New York City and is buried at West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York. She was married three times, her last husband (Dr. Henry Ross), was a staff surgeon at New York's Polyclinic Hospital and West Point graduate, who served as chief of the public health section on General Eisenhower's staff.