Charles Farrell

 Charles Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990)

He was a film actor of the 1920's silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star. Later in life he starred on TV in the 1950s sitcoms My Little Margie and playing himself in The Charles Farrell Show. He was active in business and civic affairs in Palm Springs, California, serving for a time as mayor. For his contributions to both motion pictures and television, Charles Farrell was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Farrell was romantically involved with Janet Gaynor, with whom he starred in twelve films, from about 1926 until her first marriage in 1929. Shaken by the death of his close friend, actor Fred Thomson, Farrell proposed marriage to Gaynor around 1928, but the couple was never married. Farrell married former actress Virginia Valli on February 14, 1931; the couple were married until Valli's death from a stroke on September 24, 1968. Farrell died May 6, 1990, at the age of 89 from heart failure in Palm Springs, California. He is buried at Welwood Murray Cemetery, also in Palm Springs.