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| Charles
Farrell
1901 - 1990 |
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. The actor Charles Farrell belonged together with the actress Janet Gaynor to the dream couples of the 20's and 30's. They played togehter in twelve movies. Charles Farrell began at the theater and made his film debut with "The Cheat" (23), it followed the movies "The Golden Bed" (25) and "Wings of Youth" (25). After that one could see Charles Farrell in the movies "The Freshman" (25), "Clash of the Wolves" (25), "A Trip to Chinatown" and "Old Ironsides" (26), before he played at Janet Gaynor's side in 1927 for the first time. They enchanted the audience with other movies like "Street Angel" (28), "Lucky Star" (29), "Sunny Side Up" (29), "The Man Who Came Back" (31), "Merely Mary Ann" (31), "Delicious" (31), "The First Year" (32) and "Change of Heart" (34). Besides Charles Farrell acted in many other movies in the 30's before he retired from the film business in 1941 because his gentle voice didn't fit very well to his hard-boiled parts. To his well-known talkies belong "Princess and the Plumber" (30), "Heartbreak" (31), "Body and Soul" (31), "After Tomorrow" (32), "Fighting Youth" (35), "Forbidden Heaven" (35), "Night Journey" (38) and "The Deadly Game" (41). He returned to the profession of an actor in 1952 for the TV serial "My Little Margie". In later years he founded together with actor Ralph Bellamy the "Palm
Springs Racquet Club" and he carried on the function of a mayor of Palm
Springs.
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