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)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
(2008)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
as Self (archive footage)
(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 Glove
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
(1979)
The Rebels
as Mrs. Brumple
(1979)
The Champ
as Dolly Kenyon
(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)
Kona Coast
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
(1968)
Stay Away, Joe
as Glenda Callahan
(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)
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)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
as Violet
(1957)
Desk Set
as Peg Costello
(1957)
Lizzie
as Aunt Morgan
(1957)
This Could Be the Night
as Crystal St. Clair
(1957)
Child of Trouble
as Helen Green
(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)
I Want a Divorce
as Geraldine Brokaw
(1940)
Two Girls on Broadway
as Molly Mahoney
(1939)
The Kid from Kokomo
as Doris Harvey
(1939)
East Side of Heaven
as Mary Wilson
(1939)
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Maxine Carroll
(1939)
Off the Record
as Jane Morgan
(1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Jenny Swanson
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as Sally Reardon
(1937)
The Perfect Specimen
as Mona Carter
(1937)
Back in Circulation
as 'Timmy' Blake
(1937)
Talent Scout
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1937)
Stand-In
as Lester Plum
(1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
(1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937
as Norma Perry
(1936)
Stage Struck
as Peggy Revere
(1936)
Sons o' Guns
as Yvonne
(1936)
Colleen
as Minnie Hawkins
(1936)
Three Men on a Horse
as Mabel
(1936)
Bullets or Ballots
as Lee Morgan
(1936)
One And One Is One
as Herself
(1935)
(1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Gloria Fay
(1935)
Traveling Saleslady
as Angela Twitchell
(1935)
We're in the Money
as Ginger Stewart
(1935)
(1935)
Broadway Gondolier
as Alice Hughes
(1934)
I've Got Your Number
as Marie Lawson
(1934)
Smarty
as Vicki
(1934)
Kansas City Princess
as Rosie Sturges
(1934)
Hollywood Newsreel
as Self
(1934)
He Was Her Man
as Rose Lawrence
(1934)
Dames
as Mabel Anderson
(1934)
And She Learned About Dames
as Herself
(1933)
Goodbye Again
as Anne Rogers
(1933)
Havana Widows
as Mae Knight
(1933)
Broadway Bad
as Tony Landers
(1933)
Convention City
as Nancy Lorraine
(1933)
Blondie Johnson
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
(1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Carol
(1933)
Footlight Parade
as Nan Prescott
(1933)
Just Around the Corner
as Mrs. Graham
(1932)
The Crowd Roars
as Anne Scott
(1932)
Union Depot
as Ruth Collins
(1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Schatzi Sutro
(1932)
Big City Blues
as Vida Fleet
(1932)
Three on a Match
as Mary Keaton
(1932)
Make Me a Star
as 'Flips' Montague
(1932)
Central Park
as Dot
(1932)
Miss Pinkerton
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
(1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Maizie Dickson
(1932)
Lawyer Man
as Olga Michaels
(1931)
The Public Enemy
as Mamie
(1931)
Illicit
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
(1931)
The Reckless Hour
as Allen Crane
(1931)
Millie
as Angie
(1931)
Night Nurse
as Maloney
(1931)
My Past
as Marian Moore
(1931)
Blonde Crazy
as Anne Roberts
(1931)
God's Gift to Women
as Fifi
(1931)
Other Men's Women
as Marie
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Pearl
(1931)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
(1930)
Sinners' Holiday
as Myrtle
(1930)
(1930)
(1930)
Broadway's Like That
as Ruth's Pal
(1930)
The Office Wife
as Katharine Murdock
(1930)
(1930)