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