Charles Farrell

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. His Charles Farrell Racquet Club in Palm Springs became not only the setting for his own fortune, but for a late 1950s television series that starred Farrell as the club's owner, dealing with the minor travails of family and staff. He then became a developer and one-time mayor of Palm Springs.