Joan Blondell
Acting
1906-08-30 · 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
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009 · Movie
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008 · Movie
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Movie
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006 · Movie
Complicated Women
2003 · Movie
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991 · Movie
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990 · Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
The Woman Inside
1981 · Movie
The Glove
1979 · Movie
The Champ
1979 · Movie
The Rebels
1979 · Series
$weepstake$
1979 · Series
Battered
1978 · Movie
Grease
1978 · Movie
Fantasy Island
1978 · Series
Opening Night
1977 · Movie
The Love Boat
1977 · Series
The Baron
1977 · Movie
Death at Love House
1976 · Movie
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Movie
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
Switch
1975 · Series
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
Winner Take All
1975 · Movie
The Dead Don't Die
1975 · Movie
The Snoop Sisters
1973 · Series
Police Story
1973 · Series
Banyon
1972 · Series
The Rookies
1972 · Series
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Series
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971 · Movie
The Phynx
1970 · Movie
McCloud
1970 · Series
Love, American Style
1969 · Series
Medical Center
1969 · Series
Big Daddy
1969 · Movie
Here Come the Brides
1968 · Series
The Name of the Game
1968 · Series
The Outsider
1968 · Series
Kona Coast
1968 · Movie
Stay Away, Joe
1968 · Movie
Waterhole #3
1967 · Movie
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Series
Winchester '73
1967 · Movie
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967 · Movie
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · Series
Family Affair
1966 · Series
That Girl
1966 · Series
Summer Fun
1966 · Series
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966 · Movie
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Movie
Kilroy
1965 · Movie
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
1965 · Movie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Series
Advance to the Rear
1964 · Movie
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Series
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Series
Burke's Law
1963 · Series
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 · Series
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Lucy Show
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Series
Angel Baby
1961 · Movie
My Three Sons
1960 · Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Series
The Untouchables
1959 · Series
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Bonanza
1959 · Series
A Marriage of Strangers
1959 · Movie
The Real McCoys
1957 · Series
Desk Set
1957 · Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · Movie
This Could Be the Night
1957 · Movie
Child of Trouble
1957 · Movie
Lizzie
1957 · Movie
The Opposite Sex
1956 · Movie
Playwrights '56
1955 · Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
The Blue Veil
1951 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
For Heaven's Sake
1950 · Movie
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Series
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Suspense
1949 · Series
Studio One
1948 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Christmas Eve
1947 · Movie
Nightmare Alley
1947 · Movie
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Movie
Adventure
1945 · Movie
Don Juan Quilligan
1945 · Movie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Movie
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · Movie
Lady for a Night
1942 · Movie
Three Girls About Town
1941 · Movie
Model Wife
1941 · Movie
Topper Returns
1941 · Movie
I Want a Divorce
1940 · Movie
Two Girls on Broadway
1940 · Movie
Breakdowns of 1939
1939 · Movie
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · Movie
The Kid from Kokomo
1939 · Movie
East Side of Heaven
1939 · Movie
Off the Record
1939 · Movie
There's Always a Woman
1938 · Movie
Stand-In
1937 · Movie
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Movie
Back in Circulation
1937 · Movie
Talent Scout
1937 · Movie
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937 · Movie
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · Movie
Three Men on a Horse
1936 · Movie
Stage Struck
1936 · Movie
Bullets or Ballots
1936 · Movie
Sons o' Guns
1936 · Movie
Colleen
1936 · Movie
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
1936 · Movie
One And One Is One
1936 · Movie
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
1936 · Movie
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
1936 · Movie
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935 · Movie
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Movie
We're in the Money
1935 · Movie
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · Movie
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935 · Movie
Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Movie
Kansas City Princess
1934 · Movie
Dames
1934 · Movie
He Was Her Man
1934 · Movie
Smarty
1934 · Movie
And She Learned About Dames
1934 · Movie
Hollywood Newsreel
1934 · Movie
I've Got Your Number
1934 · Movie
Convention City
1933 · Movie
Havana Widows
1933 · Movie
Footlight Parade
1933 · Movie
Goodbye Again
1933 · Movie
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · Movie
Blondie Johnson
1933 · Movie
Broadway Bad
1933 · Movie
Just Around the Corner
1933 · Movie
Lawyer Man
1932 · Movie
Central Park
1932 · Movie
Three on a Match
1932 · Movie
Big City Blues
1932 · Movie
Make Me a Star
1932 · Movie
Miss Pinkerton
1932 · Movie
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · Movie
The Crowd Roars
1932 · Movie
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Movie
Union Depot
1932 · Movie
Blonde Crazy
1931 · Movie
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931 · Movie
The Reckless Hour
1931 · Movie
Night Nurse
1931 · Movie
Big Business Girl
1931 · Movie
My Past
1931 · Movie
The Public Enemy
1931 · Movie
God's Gift to Women
1931 · Movie
Illicit
1931 · Movie
Millie
1931 · Movie
Other Men's Women
1931 · Movie
Sinners' Holiday
1930 · Movie
The Voice of Hollywood
1930 · Movie
The Office Wife
1930 · Movie
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930 · Movie
The Heart Breaker
1930 · Movie
The Devil's Parade
1930 · Movie
Broadway's Like That
1930 · Movie