"It's the same script, we just changed clothes" was a line attributed to the 8-time co-stars Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. Thanks to your recommendations, I've recently been enjoying the twosome in Havana Widows (1933). This little-known movie is now available on DVD for the first tim...

Hi Scott! I've noticed and read that many actresses had to reinvent their screen personas when the motion picture production code became more rigorously enforced in 1934, did Glenda have to change her screen persona in any way or was she pretty much established early on? Thank you very much for tak...

In fact, her final television episode was on “Bewitched,” before she headed back to Broadway for the final production of her career and life. That was a good fifth season episode, " The Battle of Burning Oak ." Miss Farrell played Hortense Rockford, and had one scene with Agnes Moorehead....

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/bewildered60/aaa%20guests/glenda%20leroy%20films.jpg Above: Glenda Farrell in Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and Heat Lightning. In the '30s, Farrell worked with Paul Muni twice (I Am a Prisoner from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie!) and director...

Thanks, Scott. I find it interesting that Farrell did not really think she was suited to film initially. Could you please touch on her life before acting? Do you think that Glenda valued her stage career more than film? I think Glenda didn't think she was "conventionally pretty" enough to...

I have answered those "thread" questions! I'd forgotten they were there, as I sit here battling severe acid reflux and writing yet another book! Thanks for reminding me.

What distinguished Glenda Farrell from her fellow tough-talking gals in movies of the '30s? I believe that Glenda was just a BETTER actress than her fellow tough-talking gals. She was one of the first, really, beginning with LITTLE CAESAR in the very early sound era, when the Hollywood studios were...

Thanks for joining us here, Scott. To get things the discussion rolling, could you please describe what compelled you to write about Glenda Farrell? Why does she deserve more recognition among classic film fans? Thirty years ago, when I first saw her in “I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (1932), s...

Good morning, Moira, and anyone else who might be out there. I'm not feeling too well today, but that's par for the course. Like my hero, Robert Louis Stevenson, I do all my writing while lounging on lots of pillows in bed. Just the usual stomach trouble today, but that doesn't affect my hands, so I...

The night owl that I am, I'm already here, and will have this on my laptop constantly until the close of the weekend. I plan to continue writing my new book, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, alternately with answering your questions about GLENDA FARRELL: HOLLYWOOD'S HARDBOILED DAME who wasn't real...

Hi, everyone. I'm sorry Mike is feeling under the weather, but I will make sure to remind him that he will always be welcome to schedule another visit. He loves to share his endless memories of his life in film and television, and is such a gracious man. Thanks, Moira, for inviting him--Scott

Mike, here's a question you probably weren't expecting. When I was a kid, I loved Teresa Graves, first seeing her on LAUGH IN and then on GET CHRISTIE LOVE, which I never missed. Many years later, I discovered that Teresa left acting after just one season of the show due to religious reasons. For th...

Mike, as a writer, is there a particular production with which you are most satisfied, both in its fidelity to your script and the overall quality of the finished product?

Hi, Mike! I'll be checking in all weekend, but I wanted to make sure and let you know that I was here early on during the proceedings. I'm so pleased that Moira was able to schedule your visit so soon. Since you and I have spent lots of time discussing films, I'll throw in a "light" questi...

Mike Hoey details his experiences working on SERGEANT RUTLEDGE in his Foreword to my book, THREE BAD MEN: JOHN FORD, JOHN WAYNE, WARD BOND.