Charles Farrell(1900-1990)

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"Rough Riders, The" Charles Farrell 1927 Paramount **I.V.

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Vern's Butterflies (1955)

Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

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Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Sunny Side Up (1929)

Charles Farrell and June Lang in The Deadly Game (1941)

Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Merely Mary Ann (1931)

Paul Cavanagh, Madge Evans, and Charles Farrell in Heartbreak (1931)

Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell in The River (1928)

Charles Farrell and Greta Nissen in Fazil (1928)

Marguerite Churchill, Charles Farrell, and Walter Woolf King in Girl Without a Room (1933)

El Brendel, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, and Crauford Kent in Delicious (1931)

Charles Farrell and Dorothy Revier in The Red Dance (1928)

Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Lucky Star (1929)

Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Known for

7th Heaven

7.6

Chico

1927

After Tomorrow

6.7

Peter Piper

1932

Liliom

6.5

Liliom

1930

Street Angel

7.3

Gino

1928

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The Charles Farrell Show
- Charlie Farrell
- TV Series
- 1956
My Little Margie
- Vern Albright
- Vern
- TV Series
- 1952–1955
The Deadly Game
- Barry Scott
- 1941
Tail Spin
- Bud
- 1939
Just Around the Corner
- Jeff Hale
- 1938
Flight to Fame
- Captain Robert Lawrence
- 1938
Bombs Over London
- Briant Gaunt
- 1937
Moonlight Sonata
- Eric Molander
- 1937
The Flying Doctor
- Sandy Nelson
- 1936
Fighting Youth
- Larry Davis
- 1935
Forbidden Heaven
- Mr. Archer
- Nibs
- 1935
Trouble Ahead
- Howard Elliott
- 1934
Change of Heart
- Chris Thring
- 1934
The Big Shakedown
- Jimmy Morrell
- 1934
Girl Without a Room
- Tom Duncan
- 1933

Soundtrack

Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals
- performer: "If I Had a Talking Picture of You"
- TV Movie
- 1974
My Little Margie
- performer: "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 1952
High Society Blues
- performer: "I'm in the Market For You", "Just Like in a Storybook"
- 1930
Sunny Side Up
- performer: "IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU"
- 1929
Happy Days
- performer: "We'll Build a Little World of Our Own" (uncredited)
- 1929

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Height
- 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Born
- August 9, 1900
- Onset Bay, Massachusetts, USA
Died
- May 6, 1990
- Palm Springs, California, USA(cardiac arrest)
Spouse
- Virginia ValliFebruary 14, 1931 - September 24, 1968 (her death)
Other works
He acted in Pat Wallace and Guy Bolton's play, "The Sun Never Sets", at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, England with Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Todd Duncan, Adelaide Hall, Stewart Granger, Henry Oscar, Mackenzie Ward, Frank Cochrane, Shelagh Furley and Wally Patch in the cast. Basil Dean was the director.
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Trivia
An explosion on the set of the film that made him a star, Old Ironsides (1926), left a technician dead, several bystanders injured and blew out Farrell's eardrums, leaving him partially deaf for the rest of his life, something he was fairly careful not to let on.

Quotes
"Janet Gaynor and I were always receiving wedding-anniversary presents in the mail, care of the studio. The fans didn't even know what date our anniversary fell on, which is logical, since we were never married".

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