Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a Pre-code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Blondell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 30, 1906 In New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 127
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Broadway's Like That 1930-03-04
- Latest Project:
- Movie Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 2012-02-04
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Movie | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History | 2008-10-14 | |
| Movie | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Self | 2008-05-15 |
| Movie | Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | Self (archive footage) | 2008-10-21 |
| Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 |
| Movie | The Woman Inside | Aunt Coll | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | The Rebels | Mrs. Brumple | 1979-05-14 |
| Movie | The Champ | Dolly Kenyon | 1979-07-10 |
| Movie | The Glove | Mrs. Fitzgerald | 1979-12-01 |
| Movie | Grease | Vi | 1978-07-07 |
| Movie | The Baron | Mama Lou | 1977-01-01 |
| Series | The Love Boat | Unknown | 1977-09-24 |
| Movie | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Landlady | 1976-07-26 |
| Movie | Death at Love House | Marcella Geffenhart | 1976-09-02 |
| Movie | The Dead Don't Die | Levenia | 1975-01-14 |
| Movie | Winner Take All | Beverly Craig | 1975-03-03 |
| Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
| Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
| Series | Banyon | Peggy Revere | 1972-09-15 |
| Movie | Support Your Local Gunfighter | Jenny | 1971-05-26 |
| Movie | The Phynx | Ruby | 1970-03-06 |
| Series | Medical Center | Unknown | 1969-09-24 |
| Series | The Outsider | Unknown | 1968-09-18 |
| Movie | Stay Away, Joe | Glenda Callahan | 1968-03-08 |
| Movie | Kona Coast | Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | The Spy in the Green Hat | Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto | 1967-02-03 |
| Movie | Waterhole #3 | Lavinia | 1967-10-10 |
| Movie | Winchester '73 | Larouge | 1967-03-14 |
| Movie | Ride Beyond Vengeance | Mrs. Lavender | 1966-01-01 |
| Series | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1966-09-13 |
| Movie | The Cincinnati Kid | Lady Fingers | 1965-10-15 |
| Movie | Advance to the Rear | Easy Jenny | 1964-06-10 |
| Series | The Greatest Show on Earth | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
| Series | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
| Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
| Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
| Movie | Angel Baby | Mollie Hays | 1961-05-14 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
| Series | My Three Sons | Unknown | 1960-09-29 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1959-10-02 |
| Series | Adventures in Paradise | Unknown | 1959-10-05 |
| Movie | This Could Be the Night | Crystal St. Clair | 1957-05-14 |
| Movie | Lizzie | Aunt Morgan | 1957-04-04 |
| Movie | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Violet | 1957-07-29 |
| Movie | Desk Set | Peg Costello | 1957-08-02 |
| Movie | The Opposite Sex | Edith Potter | 1956-11-15 |
| Series | Playwrights '56 | Unknown | 1955-10-04 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | The Blue Veil | Annie Rawlins | 1951-10-26 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
| Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
| Movie | For Heaven's Sake | Daphne Peters | 1950-12-15 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Rosemary Durant | 1947-06-02 |
| Movie | Nightmare Alley | Zeena Krumbein | 1947-10-09 |
| Movie | Christmas Eve | Ann Nelson | 1947-10-31 |
| Movie | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Aunt Sissy | 1945-02-28 |
| Movie | Adventure | Helen Melohn | 1945-12-28 |
| Movie | Don Juan Quilligan | Marjorie Mossrock | 1945-06-01 |
| Movie | Cry 'Havoc' | Grace | 1943-11-23 |
| Movie | Lady for a Night | Jenny Blake | 1942-01-05 |
| Movie | Model Wife | Joan Keating Chambers | 1941-04-17 |
| Movie | Topper Returns | Gail Richards | 1941-03-21 |
| Movie | Three Girls About Town | Hope Banner | 1941-10-23 |
| Movie | Two Girls on Broadway | Molly Mahoney | 1940-04-19 |
| Movie | I Want a Divorce | Geraldine Brokaw | 1940-09-20 |
| Movie | Off the Record | Jane Morgan | 1939-01-21 |
| Movie | East Side of Heaven | Mary Wilson | 1939-04-07 |
| Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Maxine Carroll | 1939-11-22 |
| Movie | Good Girls Go to Paris | Jenny Swanson | 1939-06-20 |
| Movie | The Kid from Kokomo | Doris Harvey | 1939-05-23 |
| Movie | There's Always a Woman | Sally Reardon | 1938-04-20 |
| Movie | Talent Scout | Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1937-07-24 |
| Movie | The King and the Chorus Girl | Miss Dorothy Ellis | 1937-03-27 |
| Movie | Back in Circulation | 'Timmy' Blake | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | The Perfect Specimen | Mona Carter | 1937-10-23 |
| Movie | Stand-In | Lester Plum | 1937-10-29 |
| Movie | Sons o' Guns | Yvonne | 1936-05-13 |
| Movie | Bullets or Ballots | Lee Morgan | 1936-06-06 |
| Movie | Colleen | Minnie Hawkins | 1936-03-21 |
| Movie | Stage Struck | Peggy Revere | 1936-09-12 |
| Movie | Gold Diggers of 1937 | Norma Perry | 1936-12-28 |
| Movie | Three Men on a Horse | Mabel | 1936-11-21 |
| Movie | Traveling Saleslady | Angela Twitchell | 1935-03-28 |
| Movie | Broadway Gondolier | Alice Hughes | 1935-07-27 |
| Movie | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 |
| Movie | We're in the Money | Ginger Stewart | 1935-08-17 |
| Movie | Miss Pacific Fleet | Gloria Fay | 1935-12-14 |
| Movie | Hollywood Newsreel | Self | 1934-03-24 |
| Movie | I've Got Your Number | Marie Lawson | 1934-02-24 |
| Movie | Smarty | Vicki | 1934-05-19 |
| Movie | He Was Her Man | Rose Lawrence | 1934-06-16 |
| Movie | Kansas City Princess | Rosie Sturges | 1934-09-14 |
| Movie | Dames | Mabel Anderson | 1934-09-01 |
| Movie | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Carol King | 1933-05-27 |
| Movie | Just Around the Corner | Mrs. Graham | 1933-01-17 |
| Movie | Broadway Bad | Tony Landers | 1933-02-24 |
| Movie | Goodbye Again | Anne Rogers | 1933-09-09 |
| Movie | Footlight Parade | Nan Prescott | 1933-10-21 |
| Movie | Convention City | Nancy Lorraine | 1933-12-14 |
| Movie | Havana Widows | Mae Knight | 1933-11-18 |
| Movie | The Famous Ferguson Case | Maizie Dickson | 1932-04-19 |
| Movie | The Crowd Roars | Anne Scott | 1932-04-16 |
| Movie | Union Depot | Ruth Collins | 1932-01-14 |
| Movie | The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Schatzi Sutro | 1932-02-03 |
| Movie | Miss Pinkerton | Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton | 1932-05-27 |
| Movie | Make Me a Star | 'Flips' Montague | 1932-07-01 |
| Movie | Central Park | Dot | 1932-12-10 |
| Movie | Lawyer Man | Olga Michaels | 1932-12-24 |
| Movie | Three on a Match | Mary Keaton | 1932-10-29 |
| Movie | Big City Blues | Vida Fleet | 1932-09-18 |
| Movie | God's Gift to Women | Fifi | 1931-04-13 |
| Movie | Millie | Angie | 1931-02-06 |
| Movie | My Past | Marian Moore | 1931-05-03 |
| Movie | Illicit | Helen 'Duckie' Childers | 1931-02-14 |
| Movie | Big Business Girl | Pearl | 1931-06-12 |
| Movie | Night Nurse | Maloney | 1931-07-16 |
| Movie | Blonde Crazy | Anne Roberts | 1931-09-16 |
| Movie | The Reckless Hour | Allen Crane | 1931-08-15 |
| Movie | Broadway's Like That | Ruth's Pal | 1930-03-04 |
| Movie | An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self | 1930-08-01 |
| Movie | Sinners' Holiday | Myrtle | 1930-10-11 |
| Movie | The Office Wife | Katharine Murdock | 1930-08-23 |