Joan Blondell
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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, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979), released shortly before her death from leukemia.
Known for
Credits
Grease (1978)
as Vi
Nightmare Alley (1947)
as Zeena Krumbein
The Champ (1979)
as Dolly Kenyon
The Public Enemy (1931)
as Mamie
Opening Night (1977)
as Sarah Goode
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
as Lady Fingers
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
as Jenny
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
as Aunt Sissy
Waterhole #3 (1967)
as Lavinia
Footlight Parade (1933)
as Nan Prescott
Desk Set (1957)
as Peg Costello
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
as Carol
The Glove (1979)
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Topper Returns (1941)
as Gail Richards
Night Nurse (1931)
as Maloney
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
as Glenda Callahan
Kilroy (1965)
as Rose Kelsey
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Landlady
Three on a Match (1932)
as Mary Keaton
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
as Violet
Blondie Johnson (1933)
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
The Opposite Sex (1956)
as Edith Potter
Angel Baby (1961)
as Mollie Hays
Convention City (1933)
as Nancy Lorraine
Lizzie (1957)
as Aunt Morgan
Union Depot (1932)
as Ruth Collins
Stand-In (1937)
as Lester Plum
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
as Grace
The Phynx (1970)
as Ruby
The Blue Veil (1951)
as Annie Rawlins
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
as Lee Morgan
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
as Alice Hughes
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
as Self
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
as Mrs. Lavender
Millie (1931)
as Angie
Battered (1978)
as Edna Thompson
Winchester '73 (1967)
as Larouge
The Baron (1977)
as Mama Lou
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
as Norma Perry
Big Daddy (1969)
Actor
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Advance to the Rear (1964)
as Easy Jenny
Other Men's Women (1931)
as Marie
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
as Molly Mahoney
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
Christmas Eve (1947)
as Ann Nelson
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Dames (1934)
as Mabel Anderson
This Could Be the Night (1957)
as Crystal St. Clair
We're in the Money (1935)
as Ginger Stewart
Lawyer Man (1932)
as Olga Michaels
Off the Record (1939)
as Jane Morgan
Blonde Crazy (1931)
as Anne Roberts
Stage Struck (1936)
as Peggy Revere
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Jenny Swanson
The Office Wife (1930)
as Katharine Murdock
Adventure (1945)
as Helen Melohn
Talent Scout (1937)
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
I've Got Your Number (1934)
as Marie Lawson
Winner Take All (1975)
as Beverly Craig
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
He Was Her Man (1934)
as Rose Lawrence
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
The Dead Don't Die (1975)
as Levenia
Model Wife (1941)
as Joan Keating Chambers
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
as Maxine Carroll
Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Hope Banner
And She Learned About Dames (1934)
as Herself
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
as Schatzi Sutro
Kona Coast (1968)
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Colleen (1936)
as Minnie Hawkins
The Crowd Roars (1932)
as Anne Scott
Central Park (1932)
as Dot
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
as Maizie Dickson
Goodbye Again (1933)
as Anne Rogers
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
as Rosemary Durant
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965)
as Self
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
as Self
There's Always a Woman (1938)
as Sally Reardon
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
as Daphne Peters
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Geraldine Brokaw
East Side of Heaven (1939)
as Mary Wilson
Smarty (1934)
as Vicki
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
as Marjorie Mossrock
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
as Mabel
Make Me a Star (1932)
as 'Flips' Montague
Death at Love House (1976)
as Marcella Geffenhart
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning" (1936)
Actor
God's Gift to Women (1931)
as Fifi
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' (1931)
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
as Angela Twitchell
Back in Circulation (1937)
as 'Timmy' Blake
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
as Doris Harvey
Sons o' Guns (1936)
as Yvonne
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Havana Widows (1933)
as Mae Knight
Lady for a Night (1942)
as Jenny Blake
My Past (1931)
as Marian Moore
Sinners' Holiday (1930)
as Myrtle
Kansas City Princess (1934)
as Rosie Sturges
The Voice of Hollywood (1930)
Actor
Big City Blues (1932)
as Vida Fleet
The Reckless Hour (1931)
as Myrtle Nichols
Illicit (1931)
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mona Carter
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
as Gloria Fay
Breakdowns of 1939 (1939)
as Self
Big Business Girl (1931)
as Pearl
A Marriage of Strangers (1959)
as Mrs. Patrick
Just Around the Corner (1933)
as Mrs. Graham
Child of Trouble (1957)
as Helen Green
Broadway Bad (1933)
as Tony Landers
The Woman Inside (1981)
as Aunt Coll
One And One Is One (1936)
as Herself
Broadway's Like That (1930)
as Ruth's Pal
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie" (1936)
Actor
The Devil's Parade (1930)
Actor
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5" (1936)
Actor
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935)
Actor
The Heart Breaker (1930)
Actor