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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Blondell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Lady Fingers
The Cincinnati Kid
Vi
Grease
Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Blondie Johnson
Aunt Sissy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Carol
Gold Diggers of 1933
Peg Costello
Desk Set
Sarah Goode
Opening Night
Lee Morgan
Bullets or Ballots
Nan Prescott
Footlight Parade
Jenny Blake
Lady for a Night
Levenia
The Dead Don't Die
Schatzi Sutro
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Landlady
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Anne Roberts
Blonde Crazy
Mary Keaton
Three on a Match
Edith Potter
The Opposite Sex
Violet
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Mary Wilson
East Side of Heaven
Alice Hughes
Broadway Gondolier
Mabel Anderson
Dames
Helen Melohn
Adventure
Gail Richards
Topper Returns
Mamie
The Public Enemy
Jenny
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Glenda Callahan
Stay Away, Joe
Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Glove
Zeena Krumbein
Nightmare Alley
Maloney
Night Nurse
Grace
Cry 'Havoc'
Norma Perry
Gold Diggers of 1937
Ann Nelson
Christmas Eve
Katharine Murdock
The Office Wife
Molly Mahoney
Two Girls on Broadway
Hope Banner
Three Girls About Town
Crystal St. Clair
This Could Be the Night
Daphne Peters
For Heaven's Sake
Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Illicit
Maizie Dickson
The Famous Ferguson Case
Doris Harvey
The Kid from Kokomo
Anne Scott
The Crowd Roars
Mollie Hays
Angel Baby
Pearl
Big Business Girl
Minnie Hawkins
Colleen
Olga Michaels
Lawyer Man
Mrs. Brumple
The Rebels
Ruth Collins
Union Depot
Jenny Swanson
Good Girls Go to Paris
Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Kona Coast
Annie Rawlins
The Blue Veil
Mona Carter
The Perfect Specimen
Mabel
Three Men on a Horse
Self (archive footage)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Angie
Millie
Aunt Morgan
Lizzie
Vida Fleet
Big City Blues
Ginger Stewart
We're in the Money
Easy Jenny
Advance to the Rear
Rosemary Durant
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Yvonne
Sons o' Guns
Lester Plum
Stand-In
Miss Dorothy Ellis
The King and the Chorus Girl
Allen Crane
The Reckless Hour
'Flips' Montague
Make Me a Star
Sally Reardon
There's Always a Woman
Ruby
The Phynx
Gloria Fay
Miss Pacific Fleet
Maxine Carroll
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Myrtle
Sinners' Holiday
Angela Twitchell
Traveling Saleslady
Rose Lawrence
He Was Her Man
Dot
Central Park
Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
Miss Pinkerton
Peggy Revere
Stage Struck
Mrs. Graham
Just Around the Corner
Vicki
Smarty
Rosie Sturges
Kansas City Princess
Marian Moore
My Past
Geraldine Brokaw
I Want a Divorce
Anne Rogers
Goodbye Again
Jane Morgan
Off the Record
Mae Knight
Havana Widows
Marjorie Mossrock
Don Juan Quilligan
Marie Lawson
I've Got Your Number
Marie
Other Men's Women
Tony Landers
Broadway Bad
Nancy Lorraine
Convention City
Fifi
God's Gift to Women
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Mrs. Patrick
A Marriage of Strangers
Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
The Spy in the Green Hat
Ruth's Pal
Broadway's Like That
Joan Keating Chambers
Model Wife
'Timmy' Blake
Back in Circulation
Self
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
Larouge
Winchester '73
Self
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Rose Kelsey
Kilroy
Mama Lou
The Baron
Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Dolly Kenyon
The Champ
Mrs. Lavender
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Self
Hollywood Newsreel
Self (archive footage)
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Lavinia
Waterhole #3
Beverly Craig
Winner Take All
Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Talent Scout
Herself
One And One Is One
The Voice of Hollywood
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Marcella Geffenhart
Death at Love House
Aunt Coll
The Woman Inside
Self
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
Breakdowns of 1939
Edna Thompson
Battered
Herself
And She Learned About Dames
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Big Daddy
The Heart Breaker
The Devil's Parade
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
124
Gender
Female
Birthday
1906-08-30
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Rose Joan Blondell