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