Nationality: American
Birthdate: 06/30/1904
Birthplace: Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Death Date: 05/01/1971
Vivacious, immensely likable character player, memorable as dizzy blondes, wisecracking gold-diggers and hard-boiled gangster's molls in a string of 1930s melodramas and musicals. Starting with "Smart Blonde" (1936), Farrell starred as Torchy Blane, enterprising woman reporter, in a series of seven B pictures.
Made acting debut at age seven as Little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Joined stock company after leaving school; member of Brissac Stock Company in San Diego, the Morosco in Los Angeles and Alcazar in San Francisco
1928
Made Broadway debut, replacing the leading lady in "Skidding"
1929
Film acting debut (bit) in "Lucky Boy"
1930
First major film role in "Little Caesar"
