Charles Farrell

Change of Heart is a 1934 American drama film starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn , Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple. The movie, about a quartet of college chums who all move to 1934 New York City, was written by James...

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...in more than a dozen films throughout the late 1920s and into the talkie era of the early 1930s. Unlike many of his silent screen peers, Farrell had little difficulty with "voice troubles" and remained a publicly popular actor throughout the...

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Delicious (1931 ) is a Gershwin musical romantic comedy film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, directed by David Butler , and featuring music by George and Ira Gershwin, including the introduction of "New York Rhapsody" in an...

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...for concocting kooky schemes to keep him from new romantic entanglements. Her TV father was played by another veteran film actor, Charles Farrell. By the end of each episode, difficulties were resolved in a way that enabled Ms. Storm's...

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...Lucy. It quickly became an audience favorite and moved to its own slot on NBC that fall. The premise was standard sitcom fare: Charles Farrell was a business executive and eligible widower, and Storm was his busybody daughter who protected...

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...replacement for "I Love Lucy," "My Little Margie" ran from 1952 to 1955, with Storm starring as the plucky young Margie Albright and Charles Farrell as her widower father, Vern. Although critics generally panned "My Little Margie" as a...

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..."Seventh Heaven," starring Janet Gaynor (who won the first Academy Award for best actress with this performance) and Charles Farrell. Jim Rigg will provide accompaniment on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Tickets are $12,...

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...of the past 25 years in 1947. Lina Basquette in "The Godless Girl" (1929). Lillian Gish and William Powell in "Romola" (1924). Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in "Seventh Heaven" (1927). Gaynor won an Academy Award for her role.

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...began staying in town when the El Mirador Hotel opened in 1927 and the city became famous as a movie star retreat when Charlie Farrell and Ralph Bellamy opened the Racquet Club seven years later. Bogert and fellow El Mirador...

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...for the 1931 dark drama "The Man Who Came Back." A studio-produced poster for the film shows a smiling Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell taken from one of their romantic comedies. It was a common gambit by studios to honeycoat movies...

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