Joan Blondell
Known for: Acting
Born: August 30, 1906
Died: December 25, 1979
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
127 movies · 51 TV shows, newest first
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
6.9
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
4.9
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006
6.9
Complicated Women
2003
6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
7.0
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
9.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
4.3
The Woman Inside
1981
5.1
The Glove
1979
7.0
The Champ
1979
10.0
The Rebels
1979NR
$weepstake$
1979
9.0
Battered
1978
7.4
Grease
1978
6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
7.6
Opening Night
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
1977
5.6
The Baron
1977
5.0
Death at Love House
1976
4.4
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975
6.6
Switch
1975
6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
7.4
Winner Take All
1975
6.0
The Dead Don't Die
1975
7.5
The Snoop Sisters
1973
7.0
Police Story
1973
8.0
Banyon
1972
6.9
The Rookies
1972
5.2
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
6.6
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
3.6
The Phynx
1970
7.2
McCloud
1970
6.2
Love, American Style
1969
6.4
Medical Center
1969
8.0
Big Daddy
1969
6.9
Here Come the Brides
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.0
The Outsider
1968
3.3
Kona Coast
1968
5.5
Stay Away, Joe
1968
5.9
Waterhole #3
1967
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.7
Winchester '73
1967
6.6
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
6.9
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
6.7
Family Affair
1966
6.2
That Girl
1966NR
Summer Fun
1966
6.0
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966
7.0
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
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Kilroy
1965
7.5
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
1965
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
5.2
Advance to the Rear
19645.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.9
Petticoat Junction
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
19637.5
The Greatest Show on Earth
19638.0
Vacation Playhouse
1963
7.0
The Lucy Show
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.5
The Virginian
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
6.1
Angel Baby
1961
6.6
My Three Sons
1960
6.4
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
8.0
The Untouchables
1959
6.1
Adventures in Paradise
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
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A Marriage of Strangers
1959
5.9
The Real McCoys
1957
7.0
Desk Set
1957
6.8
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
19577.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
6.1
This Could Be the Night
1957
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Child of Trouble
1957
6.9
Lizzie
1957
5.4
The Opposite Sex
19566.3
Playwrights '56
1955
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
6.8
The Blue Veil
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.0
For Heaven's Sake
19506.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
5.1
Suspense
1949
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
5.4
Christmas Eve
1947
7.2
Nightmare Alley
1947
6.5
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
6.4
Adventure
1945
7.0
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
6.5
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
5.5
Lady for a Night
1942
6.5
Three Girls About Town
1941
6.5
Model Wife
1941
6.5
Topper Returns
1941
10.0
I Want a Divorce
1940
7.0
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
6.5
Breakdowns of 1939
1939
6.0
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
7.1
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
6.5
The Kid from Kokomo
1939
7.4
East Side of Heaven
1939
6.4
Off the Record
1939
6.0
There's Always a Woman
1938
6.5
Stand-In
1937
6.4
The Perfect Specimen
1937
6.5
Back in Circulation
1937
6.7
Talent Scout
1937
6.2
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
6.1
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
6.4
Three Men on a Horse
1936
5.3
Stage Struck
1936
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
5.2
Sons o' Guns
1936
5.8
Colleen
1936
5.5
One And One Is One
1936
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
1936
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
1936
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
1936
7.0
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
5.3
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
5.9
We're in the Money
1935
6.0
Broadway Gondolier
1935NR
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
6.1
Traveling Saleslady
1935
4.9
Kansas City Princess
1934
6.5
Dames
1934
6.5
He Was Her Man
1934
4.6
Smarty
1934
7.0
And She Learned About Dames
19347.0
Hollywood Newsreel
1934
6.8
I've Got Your Number
1934
4.2
Convention City
1933
6.6
Havana Widows
1933
6.8
Footlight Parade
1933
4.9
Goodbye Again
1933
7.2
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
5.9
Blondie Johnson
1933
5.3
Broadway Bad
1933
6.0
Just Around the Corner
1933
6.1
Lawyer Man
1932
5.8
Central Park
1932
6.3
Three on a Match
1932
5.9
Big City Blues
1932
6.4
Make Me a Star
1932
5.9
Miss Pinkerton
1932
6.6
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
6.1
The Crowd Roars
1932
5.6
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
6.1
Union Depot
1932
7.0
Blonde Crazy
1931
7.0
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931
6.6
The Reckless Hour
1931
6.8
Night Nurse
1931
6.8
Big Business Girl
1931
4.0
My Past
1931
7.2
The Public Enemy
1931
4.8
God's Gift to Women
1931
5.6
Illicit
1931
5.3
Millie
1931
5.7
Other Men's Women
1931
6.2
Sinners' Holiday
1930
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The Voice of Hollywood
1930
5.1
The Office Wife
1930
4.5
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
19307.0
The Heart Breaker
19307.0
The Devil's Parade
1930
3.5
Broadway's Like That
1930