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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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)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1975)
The Dead Don't Die
as Levenia
(1975)
Winner Take All
as Beverly Craig
(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)
The Spy in the Green Hat
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
(1967)
Waterhole #3
as Lavinia
(1967)
Winchester '73
as Larouge
(1966)
Ride Beyond Vengeance
as Mrs. Lavender
(1965)
The Cincinnati Kid
as Lady Fingers
(1965)
Kilroy
as Rose Kelsey
(1965)
(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)
Lizzie
as Aunt Morgan
(1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
as Violet
(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)
Christmas Eve
as Ann Nelson
(1947)
Nightmare Alley
as Zeena Krumbein
(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)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Maxine Carroll
(1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Jenny Swanson
(1939)
Off the Record
as Jane Morgan
(1939)
East Side of Heaven
as Mary Wilson
(1939)
The Kid from Kokomo
as Doris Harvey
(1939)
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as Sally Reardon
(1937)
Back in Circulation
as 'Timmy' Blake
(1937)
The Perfect Specimen
as Mona Carter
(1937)
Stand-In
as Lester Plum
(1937)
Talent Scout
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
(1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937
as Norma Perry
(1936)
Colleen
as Minnie Hawkins
(1936)
Bullets or Ballots
as Lee Morgan
(1936)
Sons o' Guns
as Yvonne
(1936)
Three Men on a Horse
as Mabel
(1936)
Stage Struck
as Peggy Revere
(1936)
One And One Is One
as Herself
(1935)
Broadway Gondolier
as Alice Hughes
(1935)
Traveling Saleslady
as Angela Twitchell
(1935)
We're in the Money
as Ginger Stewart
(1935)
(1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Gloria Fay
(1935)
(1934)
Dames
as Mabel Anderson
(1934)
Hollywood Newsreel
as Self
(1934)
Smarty
as Vicki
(1934)
I've Got Your Number
as Marie Lawson
(1934)
Kansas City Princess
as Rosie Sturges
(1934)
He Was Her Man
as Rose Lawrence
(1934)
And She Learned About Dames
as Herself
(1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Carol
(1933)
Footlight Parade
as Nan Prescott
(1933)
Havana Widows
as Mae Knight
(1933)
Broadway Bad
as Tony Landers
(1933)
Blondie Johnson
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
(1933)
Goodbye Again
as Anne Rogers
(1933)
Convention City
as Nancy Lorraine
(1933)
Just Around the Corner
as Mrs. Graham
(1932)
The Crowd Roars
as Anne Scott
(1932)
Three on a Match
as Mary Keaton
(1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Schatzi Sutro
(1932)
Lawyer Man
as Olga Michaels
(1932)
Make Me a Star
as 'Flips' Montague
(1932)
Miss Pinkerton
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
(1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Maizie Dickson
(1932)
Central Park
as Dot
(1932)
Union Depot
as Ruth Collins
(1932)
Big City Blues
as Vida Fleet
(1931)
The Public Enemy
as Mamie
(1931)
Night Nurse
as Maloney
(1931)
Millie
as Angie
(1931)
Blonde Crazy
as Anne Roberts
(1931)
Other Men's Women
as Marie
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Pearl
(1931)
God's Gift to Women
as Fifi
(1931)
My Past
as Marian Moore
(1931)
Illicit
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
(1931)
The Reckless Hour
as Allen Crane
(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)