Charles Farrel

Charles Farrel (August 9th 1901 – May 6th 1990) is an American actor of the era of the silent film then of television. Farrel is particularly known for its lovesongs with the screen with the actress Janet Gaynor. They divided the poster of a dozen films of which the supreme Hour ( Seventh Heaven ), Street Angel , and Lucky Star .

Career

Born with Walpole Massachusetts, Farrel begins with Hollywood by small roles in the Années 1920. Its first appearance, not credited, date of 1923 in the film Fading ( The Cheat ) with the Vamp of the screen of Polish origin Pola Negri and the actor Jack Holt. Its second film is the very popular adaptation of the novel of Victor Hugo Notre-Dame de Paris ( The Hunchback off Notre Dame ) with Lon Chaney carried out in 1923 by Wallace Worsley.

Farrel plays of small roles during the following years without much success until the melodrama the supreme Hour ( Seventh Heaven ) of Frank Borzage where it is associated with Janet Gaynor. The film, rented by criticism, was such a triumph that the two actors will find themselves again in more than twelve films until the beginning of the talking films. Contrary to many pars, Farrel passed without difficulty to speaking and remained a very popular actor.

Television

The beginning of the year 1950, after the decline of its career to the cinema, Farrel plays in the popular series of television My Little Margie . The series will last of 1952 to 1955. In 1956 Farrel receives in its own emission, The Charles Farrel Show .

Personal life

Farrel married the ex-actress Virginia Valli the February 4th 1931. They remained plain until the death of this one the September 24th 1968.

Reprocess

After its retirement of actor, Farrel became resident with life of Palm Springs in California where it creates the Palm Springs Racquet Club with his friend actor Ralph Bellamy.

Decisive asset of the prosperity of Palm Springs in the Fifties, Farrel was elected mayor of the community in 1953, a station which it occupied 7 years. Farrel dies of a Myocardial infarction in 1990 to 88 years. It is buried with the Welwood Murray Cemetery at Palm Springs.

Rewards

For his contribution to the cinema and on television, Charles Farrel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk off Famed to the 7021 Hollywood Blvd. (cinema), and at the 1617 Street (television) Fortifies.

Selective catalog of films

• Clash off the Wolves (1925) with Rin Tin Chock
• has Trip to Chinatown (1926) with Margaret Livingston and Anna May Wong
• Old Ironsides (1926) with George Bancroft and Wallace Beery
• the supreme Hour ( Seventh Heaven ) (1927) first film with Janet Gaynor
• The Rough Riders (1927) with Noah Beery, George Bancroft, and Mary Astor
• Street Angel (1928) with Janet Gaynor
• Lucky Star (1929) with Janet Gaynor
• the Woman with the corbel ( The River ) (1929) with Mary Duncan
• Sunny Side Up (1929) with Janet Gaynor
• Liliom (1930) with Pink Hobart (envisaged for Janet Gaynor, which declined)
• High Society Blues (1930) with Janet Gaynor
• The Man Who Came Back (1931) with Janet Gaynor
• Drunk Body and (1931) with Humphrey Bogart and Myrna Loy
• Merely Mary Ann (1931) with Janet Gaynor
• Delicious (1931) with Janet Gaynor
• Wild Girl (1932) with Joan Bennett and Eugene Pallets
• The First Year (1932) with Janet Gaynor
• Tess off the Storm Country (1932) with Janet Gaynor
• Girl Without has Room (1933) with Charles Ruggles and Marguerite Churchill
• Change off Heart (1934) with Janet Gaynor, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple (last film with Gaynor)
• Moonlight Sonata (1937) with Paderewski
• Just Around the Corner (1938) with Shirley Temple, Bill " Bojangles" Robinson, and Bert Lahr
• The Deadly Range (1941)
• My Little Margie (1952-1955; series TV)

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