the Hearst Ranch for wild weekends with Marion Davies, he got around to the parties – he was a big, brawny, outdoors type... I was not a party girl... Charlie pressed me to marry him, but we had too many differences. In my era, you didn't live together. It just wasn't done. So I married a San Francisco businessman, Lydell Peck, just to get away from Charlie." Farrell married former actress Virginia Valli on February 14, 1931; the couple was married until Valli's death from a stroke on September 24, 1968. In the 1930s, Farrell became a resident of the desert city of Palm Springs, California. In 1934, he opened the popular Palm Springs Racquet Club in the city with his business partner, fellow actor Ralph Bellamy. A major player in the developing prosperity of Palm Springs in the 1930s through the 1960s, Farrell was elected to the city council in 1946 and served as mayor from 1947 to 1955. The Jack Benny Program regularly featured Farrell when they broadcast from Palm Springs, always reminding the audience he had starred in "7th Heaven". Farrell died May 6, 1990, at the age of 89 from heart failure in Palm Springs where he was interred at the Welwood Murray Cemetery. Awards For his contributions to both motion pictures and television, Charles Farrell was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard for motion pictures and 1617 Vine Street for television. In 1992, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Filmography Features: Short Subjects: The Gosh-Darn Mortgage (1926) – Joe Hoskins Hollywood Hobbies (1935) – Himself Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 7 (1936) – Himself See also List of Mayors of Palm Springs, California References Further reading External links Charles Farrell at Golden Silents Photographs of Charles Farrell 1900 births 1990 deaths American actor-politicians American male film actors American male silent film actors American male television actors Burials at Welwood Murray Cemetery California city council members Male actors from Massachusetts Male actors from Palm Springs, California Mayors of Palm Springs, California People from Walpole, Massachusetts 20th-century American male actors 20th Century Studios contract players 20th-century American politicians