- The fast-talking reporter Torchy Blane, who Farrell played in a series of movies, was the inspiration for Lois Lane.
- She was considered for the role of Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind (1939), which eventually went to Ona Munson.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- One of the reasons Farrell was cast in Lady for a Day (1933) was because of her relationship with writer Robert Riskin.
- Had her cat "Frankie" fitted for glasses by a Hollywood optician after noticing the animal was continually bumping into furniture all over the house.
- Following her death, she was interred at West Point Cemetery, on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
- She appeared in eight films with Joan Blondell: Three on a Match (1932), Blue Steel (1934), I've Got Your Number (1934), Kansas City Princess (1934), Traveling Saleslady (1935), We're in the Money (1935), Miss Pacific Fleet (1935) and Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936).
- Her son Tommy Farrell was born October 7, 1921 at her parents' house.
- In 1938 she was elected honorary Mayor of Hollywood, beating out Bing Crosby and Lewis Stone.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": Little Caesar (1931) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
- In November 2018, she was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.
- Grandmother of Mark Farrell.
- She appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award winners: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Lady for a Day (1933) and The Talk of the Town (1942).
- She was a lifelong conservative Republican.
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