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:
- 128
- 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 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | The Woman Inside | Aunt Coll | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | The Rebels | Mrs. Brumple | 1979-05-14 |
| Movie | The Champ | Dolly Kenyon | 1979-07-07 |
| Movie | The Glove | Mrs. Fitzgerald | 1979-12-01 |
| Movie | Grease | Vi | 1978-06-16 |
| Series | The Love Boat | Unknown | 1977-09-24 |
| Movie | The Baron | Mama Lou | 1977-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
| Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Stay Away, Joe | Glenda Callahan | 1968-03-08 |
| Series | The Outsider | Unknown | 1968-09-18 |
| Movie | Kona Coast | Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | The Spy in the Green Hat | Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto | 1967-02-03 |
| Movie | Winchester '73 | Larouge | 1967-03-14 |
| Movie | Waterhole #3 | Lavinia | 1967-10-10 |
| 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 | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
| Series | The Greatest Show on Earth | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
| 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 | Adventures in Paradise | Unknown | 1959-10-05 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1959-10-02 |
| Movie | Lizzie | Aunt Morgan | 1957-04-04 |
| Movie | This Could Be the Night | Crystal St. Clair | 1957-05-14 |
| 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 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
| 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 | Christmas Eve | Ann Nelson | 1947-10-31 |
| Movie | Nightmare Alley | Zeena Krumbein | 1947-10-09 |
| Movie | Don Juan Quilligan | Marjorie Mossrock | 1945-06-01 |
| Movie | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Aunt Sissy | 1945-02-28 |
| Movie | Adventure | Helen Melohn | 1945-12-28 |
| Movie | Cry 'Havoc' | Grace | 1943-11-23 |
| Movie | Lady for a Night | Jenny Blake | 1942-01-05 |
| Movie | Topper Returns | Gail Richards | 1941-03-21 |
| Movie | Model Wife | Joan Keating Chambers | 1941-04-17 |
| 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 | The Kid from Kokomo | Doris Harvey | 1939-05-23 |
| Movie | East Side of Heaven | Mary Wilson | 1939-04-07 |
| Movie | Good Girls Go to Paris | Jenny Swanson | 1939-06-20 |
| Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Maxine Carroll | 1939-11-22 |
| Movie | There's Always a Woman | Sally Reardon | 1938-04-20 |
| Movie | The King and the Chorus Girl | Miss Dorothy Ellis | 1937-03-27 |
| Movie | Talent Scout | Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1937-07-24 |
| Movie | Back in Circulation | 'Timmy' Blake | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | Stand-In | Lester Plum | 1937-10-29 |
| Movie | The Perfect Specimen | Mona Carter | 1937-10-23 |
| 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 | Broadway Gondolier | Alice Hughes | 1935-07-27 |
| Movie | Traveling Saleslady | Angela Twitchell | 1935-03-28 |
| Movie | We're in the Money | Ginger Stewart | 1935-08-17 |
| Movie | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 |
| Movie | Miss Pacific Fleet | Gloria Fay | 1935-12-14 |
| Movie | Smarty | Vicki | 1934-05-19 |
| Movie | I've Got Your Number | Marie Lawson | 1934-02-24 |
| Movie | Hollywood Newsreel | Self | 1934-03-24 |
| 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 | Broadway Bad | Tony Landers | 1933-02-24 |
| Movie | Just Around the Corner | Mrs. Graham | 1933-01-17 |
| Movie | Goodbye Again | Anne Rogers | 1933-09-09 |
| Movie | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Carol | 1933-05-27 |
| Movie | Convention City | Nancy Lorraine | 1933-12-14 |
| Movie | Havana Widows | Mae Knight | 1933-11-18 |
| Movie | Footlight Parade | Nan Prescott | 1933-10-21 |
| Movie | The Crowd Roars | Anne Scott | 1932-04-16 |
| Movie | Union Depot | Ruth Collins | 1932-01-14 |
| Movie | Miss Pinkerton | Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton | 1932-05-27 |
| Movie | The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Schatzi Sutro | 1932-02-03 |
| Movie | The Famous Ferguson Case | Maizie Dickson | 1932-04-19 |
| 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 |