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Joan Blondell

Born 1906-08-30

Died 1979-12-25

📍 New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography 165

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

as Self (archive footage)

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

as Self (archive footage)

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound

as Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

The Woman Inside

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

as Dolly Kenyon

as Mrs. Brumple

as Edna Thompson

as Ramona Bevans

Death at Love House

as Marcella Geffenhart

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Starsky & Hutch

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

Winner Take All

as Beverly Craig

The Dead Don't Die

The Snoop Sisters

as Peggy Revere

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Love, American Style

Here Come the Brides

as Lottie Hatfield

The Name of the Game

as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

as Glenda Callahan

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Spy in the Green Hat

as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Ride Beyond Vengeance

as Mrs. Lavender

The Cincinnati Kid

as Lady Fingers

The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto

Advance to the Rear

Petticoat Junction

as Florabelle Campbell

as Ethel Kronkeit

as Candy Sturdevant

as Joan Brenner

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Rosanna Dobie

The Mike Douglas Show

as Dolly Marlowe

as Harriet Blanchard

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Helene Terry

The Untouchables

as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall

Adventures in Paradise

as Millicent Brass

The Twilight Zone

as Phyllis Britt

as Lillian Manfred

A Marriage of Strangers

as Mrs. Patrick

The Real McCoys

as Peg Costello

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

This Could Be the Night

as Crystal St. Clair

Child of Trouble

The Opposite Sex

as Edith Potter

The Wonderful World of Disney

General Electric Theater

as Joan Preston

as Annie Rawlins

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Calamity Jane

For Heaven's Sake

as Daphne Peters

The Colgate Comedy Hour

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

Nightmare Alley

as Zeena Krumbein

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

as Rosemary Durant

as Helen Melohn

Don Juan Quilligan

as Marjorie Mossrock

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Lady for a Night

Three Girls About Town

as Joan Keating Chambers

as Gail Richards

I Want a Divorce

as Geraldine Brokaw

Two Girls on Broadway

as Molly Mahoney

Breakdowns of 1939

The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Maxine Carroll

Good Girls Go to Paris

as Jenny Swanson

The Kid from Kokomo

as Doris Harvey

East Side of Heaven

There's Always a Woman

as Sally Reardon

The Perfect Specimen

Back in Circulation

as 'Timmy' Blake

as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

The King and the Chorus Girl

as Miss Dorothy Ellis

Gold Diggers of 1937

Three Men on a Horse

as Peggy Revere

Bullets or Ballots

as Minnie Hawkins

One And One Is One

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"

Miss Pacific Fleet

Things You Never See on the Screen

We're in the Money

as Ginger Stewart

Broadway Gondolier

as Alice Hughes

Traveling Saleslady

as Angela Twitchell

Kansas City Princess

as Rosie Sturges

as Mabel Anderson

as Rose Lawrence

And She Learned About Dames

I've Got Your Number

as Marie Lawson

Convention City

as Nancy Lorraine

Footlight Parade

as Nan Prescott

Gold Diggers of 1933

Blondie Johnson

as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

as Tony Landers

Just Around the Corner

as Olga Michaels

Three on a Match

as 'Flips' Montague

as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton

The Famous Ferguson Case

as Maizie Dickson

The Crowd Roars

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

as Schatzi Sutro

as Ruth Collins

as Anne Roberts

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)

The Reckless Hour

Big Business Girl

as Marian Moore

The Public Enemy

God's Gift to Women

as Helen 'Duckie' Childers

Other Men's Women

Sinners' Holiday

The Office Wife

as Katharine Murdock

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Broadway's Like That