Joan Blondell
Acting
Born August 30, 1906 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
Films (127)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006
Complicated Women
2003
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
The Woman Inside
1981
The Glove
1979
The Champ
1979
Battered
1978
Grease
1978
Opening Night
1977
The Baron
1977
Death at Love House
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Winner Take All
1975
The Dead Don't Die
1975
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
The Phynx
1970
Big Daddy
1969
Kona Coast
1968
Stay Away, Joe
1968
Waterhole #3
1967
Winchester '73
1967
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Kilroy
1965
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
1965
Advance to the Rear
1964
Angel Baby
1961
A Marriage of Strangers
1959
Desk Set
1957
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957
This Could Be the Night
1957
Child of Trouble
1957
Lizzie
1957
The Opposite Sex
1956
The Blue Veil
1951
For Heaven's Sake
1950
Christmas Eve
1947
Nightmare Alley
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Adventure
1945
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
Lady for a Night
1942
Three Girls About Town
1941
Model Wife
1941
Topper Returns
1941
I Want a Divorce
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
Breakdowns of 1939
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
The Kid from Kokomo
1939
East Side of Heaven
1939
Off the Record
1939
There's Always a Woman
1938
Stand-In
1937
The Perfect Specimen
1937
Back in Circulation
1937
Talent Scout
1937
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Three Men on a Horse
1936
Stage Struck
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Sons o' Guns
1936
Colleen
1936
One And One Is One
1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
1936
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
We're in the Money
1935
Broadway Gondolier
1935
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
Traveling Saleslady
1935
Kansas City Princess
1934
Dames
1934
He Was Her Man
1934
Smarty
1934
And She Learned About Dames
1934
Hollywood Newsreel
1934
I've Got Your Number
1934
Convention City
1933
Havana Widows
1933
Footlight Parade
1933
Goodbye Again
1933
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
Blondie Johnson
1933
Broadway Bad
1933
Just Around the Corner
1933
Lawyer Man
1932
Central Park
1932
Three on a Match
1932
Big City Blues
1932
Make Me a Star
1932
Miss Pinkerton
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
The Crowd Roars
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
Union Depot
1932
Blonde Crazy
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931
The Reckless Hour
1931
Night Nurse
1931
Big Business Girl
1931
My Past
1931
The Public Enemy
1931
God's Gift to Women
1931
Illicit
1931
Millie
1931
Other Men's Women
1931
Sinners' Holiday
1930
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
The Office Wife
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
The Heart Breaker
1930
The Devil's Parade
1930
Broadway's Like That
1930