Joan Blondell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1906-08-30
Day of Death
1979-12-25 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Joan Blondell
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2009)
(2008)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
(2006)
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1991)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
(1990)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
(1984)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1981)
The Woman Inside
as Aunt Coll
(1979)
The Champ
as Dolly Kenyon
(1979)
The Glove
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
(1979)
The Rebels
as Mrs. Brumple
(1978)
Grease
as Vi
(1978)
Battered
as Edna Thompson
(1977)
Opening Night
as Sarah Goode
(1977)
The Baron
as Mama Lou
(1976)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Landlady
(1976)
Death at Love House
as Marcella Geffenhart
(1975)
Winner Take All
as Beverly Craig
(1975)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1975)
The Dead Don't Die
as Levenia
(1971)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Jenny
(1970)
The Phynx
as Ruby
(1969)
(1968)
Stay Away, Joe
as Glenda Callahan
(1968)
Kona Coast
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
(1967)
Waterhole #3
as Lavinia
(1967)
Winchester '73
as Larouge
(1967)
The Spy in the Green Hat
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
(1966)
Ride Beyond Vengeance
as Mrs. Lavender
(1965)
The Cincinnati Kid
as Lady Fingers
(1965)
(1965)
Kilroy
as Rose Kelsey
(1964)
Advance to the Rear
as Easy Jenny
(1961)
Angel Baby
as Mollie Hays
(1959)
A Marriage of Strangers
as Mrs. Patrick
(1957)
Desk Set
as Peg Costello
(1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
as Violet
(1957)
Lizzie
as Aunt Morgan
(1957)
This Could Be the Night
as Crystal St. Clair
(1956)
The Opposite Sex
as Edith Potter
(1951)
The Blue Veil
as Annie Rawlins
(1950)
For Heaven's Sake
as Daphne Peters
(1947)
Nightmare Alley
as Zeena Krumbein
(1947)
Christmas Eve
as Ann Nelson
(1947)
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Rosemary Durant
(1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Aunt Sissy
(1945)
Adventure
as Helen Melohn
(1945)
Don Juan Quilligan
as Marjorie Mossrock
(1943)
Cry 'Havoc'
as Grace
(1942)
Lady for a Night
as Jenny Blake
(1941)
Topper Returns
as Gail Richards
(1941)
Three Girls About Town
as Hope Banner
(1941)
Model Wife
as Joan Keating Chambers
(1940)
Two Girls on Broadway
as Molly Mahoney
(1940)
I Want a Divorce
as Geraldine Brokaw
(1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Jenny Swanson
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Maxine Carroll
(1939)
Off the Record
as Jane Morgan
(1939)
The Kid from Kokomo
as Doris Harvey
(1939)
East Side of Heaven
as Mary Wilson
(1939)
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as Sally Reardon
(1937)
Back in Circulation
as 'Timmy' Blake
(1937)
Stand-In
as Lester Plum
(1937)
The Perfect Specimen
as Mona Carter
(1937)
Talent Scout
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
(1936)
Colleen
as Minnie Hawkins
(1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937
as Norma Perry
(1936)
Bullets or Ballots
as Lee Morgan
(1936)
Stage Struck
as Peggy Revere
(1936)
Three Men on a Horse
as Mabel
(1936)
Sons o' Guns
as Yvonne
(1936)
One And One Is One
as Herself
(1935)
Broadway Gondolier
as Alice Hughes
(1935)
Traveling Saleslady
as Angela Twitchell
(1935)
(1935)
We're in the Money
as Ginger Stewart
(1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Gloria Fay
(1934)
Dames
as Mabel Anderson
(1934)
Smarty
as Vicki
(1934)
I've Got Your Number
as Marie Lawson
(1934)
He Was Her Man
as Rose Lawrence
(1934)
Kansas City Princess
as Rosie Sturges
(1934)
Hollywood Newsreel
as Self
(1934)
And She Learned About Dames
as Herself
(1933)
Havana Widows
as Mae Knight
(1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Carol King
(1933)
Footlight Parade
as Nan Prescott
(1933)
Goodbye Again
as Anne Rogers
(1933)
Convention City
as Nancy Lorraine
(1933)
Blondie Johnson
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
(1933)
Broadway Bad
as Tony Landers
(1933)
Just Around the Corner
as Mrs. Graham
(1932)
Union Depot
as Ruth Collins
(1932)
Lawyer Man
as Olga Michaels
(1932)
Miss Pinkerton
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
(1932)
Three on a Match
as Mary Keaton
(1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Schatzi Sutro
(1932)
Make Me a Star
as 'Flips' Montague
(1932)
Big City Blues
as Vida Fleet
(1932)
Central Park
as Dot
(1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Maizie Dickson
(1932)
The Crowd Roars
as Anne Scott
(1931)
The Public Enemy
as Mamie
(1931)
Millie
as Angie
(1931)
Blonde Crazy
as Anne Roberts
(1931)
Night Nurse
as Maloney
(1931)
Illicit
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
(1931)
My Past
as Marian Moore
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Pearl
(1931)
Other Men's Women
as Marie
(1931)
The Reckless Hour
as Allen Crane
(1931)
God's Gift to Women
as Fifi
(1931)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
(1930)
The Office Wife
as Katharine Murdock
(1930)
Sinners' Holiday
as Myrtle
(1930)
(1930)
(1930)
Broadway's Like That
as Ruth's Pal
(1930)
(1930)