Joan Blondell
Acting
- Born:
- 1906-08-30
- Died:
- 1979-12-25
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Complicated Women
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Going Hollywood: The '30s
The Woman Inside
The Glove
The Champ
The Rebels
$weepstake$
Battered
Grease
Fantasy Island
Opening Night
The Love Boat
The Baron
Death at Love House
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Starsky & Hutch
Switch
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Winner Take All
The Dead Don't Die
The Snoop Sisters
Police Story
Banyon
The Rookies
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Support Your Local Gunfighter
The Phynx
McCloud
Love, American Style
Medical Center
Big Daddy
Here Come the Brides
The Name of the Game
The Outsider
Kona Coast
Stay Away, Joe
Waterhole #3
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Winchester '73
The Spy in the Green Hat
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Family Affair
That Girl
Summer Fun
Ride Beyond Vengeance
The Cincinnati Kid
Kilroy
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Advance to the Rear
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Petticoat Junction
Burke's Law
The Greatest Show on Earth
Vacation Playhouse
The Lucy Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Virginian
The Mike Douglas Show
Dr. Kildare
Angel Baby
My Three Sons
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Untouchables
Adventures in Paradise
The Twilight Zone
Bonanza
A Marriage of Strangers
The Real McCoys
Desk Set
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
This Could Be the Night
Child of Trouble
Lizzie
The Opposite Sex
Playwrights '56
The Wonderful World of Disney
General Electric Theater
The Blue Veil
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
For Heaven's Sake
Lux Video Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
What's My Line?
Suspense
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show
Christmas Eve
Nightmare Alley
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Adventure
Don Juan Quilligan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cry 'Havoc'
Lady for a Night
Three Girls About Town
Model Wife
Topper Returns
I Want a Divorce
Two Girls on Broadway
Breakdowns of 1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Good Girls Go to Paris
The Kid from Kokomo
East Side of Heaven
Off the Record
There's Always a Woman
Stand-In
The Perfect Specimen
Back in Circulation
Talent Scout
The King and the Chorus Girl
Gold Diggers of 1937
Three Men on a Horse
Stage Struck
Bullets or Ballots
Sons o' Guns
Colleen
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
Broadway Gondolier
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Traveling Saleslady
Kansas City Princess
Dames
He Was Her Man
Smarty
And She Learned About Dames
Hollywood Newsreel
I've Got Your Number
Convention City
Havana Widows
Footlight Parade
Goodbye Again
Gold Diggers of 1933
Blondie Johnson
Broadway Bad
Just Around the Corner
Lawyer Man
Central Park
Three on a Match
Big City Blues
Make Me a Star
Miss Pinkerton
The Famous Ferguson Case
The Crowd Roars
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Union Depot
Blonde Crazy
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
The Reckless Hour
Night Nurse
Big Business Girl
My Past
The Public Enemy
God's Gift to Women
Illicit
Millie
Other Men's Women
Sinners' Holiday
The Voice of Hollywood
The Office Wife
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
The Heart Breaker
The Devil's Parade
Broadway's Like That