Actor: Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell played Torchy Blane, a wisecracking newspaper reporter, across nine films, and the character is credited as an influence on Lois Lane.

Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang gave her pre-Code work, and she was reportedly the fastest talker in Hollywood, once delivering four hundred words in forty seconds. She won an Emmy in 1963.