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