Joan Blondell
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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Movies (127)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008 · Self (archive footage)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Self
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990 · Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
The Woman Inside
1981 · Aunt Coll
The Glove
1979 · Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Champ
1979 · Dolly Kenyon
Battered
1978 · Edna Thompson
Grease
1978 · Vi
Opening Night
1977 · Sarah Goode
The Baron
1977 · Mama Lou
Death at Love House
1976 · Marcella Geffenhart
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Landlady
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
Winner Take All
1975 · Beverly Craig
The Dead Don't Die
1975 · Levenia
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971 · Jenny
The Phynx
1970 · Ruby
Big Daddy
1969
Kona Coast
1968 · Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Stay Away, Joe
1968 · Glenda Callahan
Waterhole #3
1967 · Lavinia
Winchester '73
1967 · Larouge
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967 · Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966 · Mrs. Lavender
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Lady Fingers
Kilroy
1965 · Rose Kelsey
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
1965 · Self
Advance to the Rear
1964 · Easy Jenny
Angel Baby
1961 · Mollie Hays
A Marriage of Strangers
1959 · Mrs. Patrick
Desk Set
1957 · Peg Costello
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · Violet
This Could Be the Night
1957 · Crystal St. Clair
Child of Trouble
1957 · Helen Green
Lizzie
1957 · Aunt Morgan
The Opposite Sex
1956 · Edith Potter
The Blue Veil
1951 · Annie Rawlins
For Heaven's Sake
1950 · Daphne Peters
Christmas Eve
1947 · Ann Nelson
Nightmare Alley
1947 · Zeena Krumbein
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Rosemary Durant
Adventure
1945 · Helen Melohn
Don Juan Quilligan
1945 · Marjorie Mossrock
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Aunt Sissy
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · Grace
Lady for a Night
1942 · Jenny Blake
Three Girls About Town
1941 · Hope Banner
Model Wife
1941 · Joan Keating Chambers
Topper Returns
1941 · Gail Richards
I Want a Divorce
1940 · Geraldine Brokaw
Two Girls on Broadway
1940 · Molly Mahoney
Breakdowns of 1939
1939 · Self
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Maxine Carroll
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · Jenny Swanson
The Kid from Kokomo
1939 · Doris Harvey
East Side of Heaven
1939 · Mary Wilson
Off the Record
1939 · Jane Morgan
There's Always a Woman
1938 · Sally Reardon
Stand-In
1937 · Lester Plum
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Mona Carter
Back in Circulation
1937 · 'Timmy' Blake
Talent Scout
1937 · Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937 · Miss Dorothy Ellis
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · Norma Perry
Three Men on a Horse
1936 · Mabel
Stage Struck
1936 · Peggy Revere
Bullets or Ballots
1936 · Lee Morgan
Sons o' Guns
1936 · Yvonne
Colleen
1936 · Minnie Hawkins
One And One Is One
1936 · Herself
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
1936
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935 · Gloria Fay
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Self
We're in the Money
1935 · Ginger Stewart
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · Alice Hughes
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Angela Twitchell
Kansas City Princess
1934 · Rosie Sturges
Dames
1934 · Mabel Anderson
He Was Her Man
1934 · Rose Lawrence
Smarty
1934 · Vicki
And She Learned About Dames
1934 · Herself
Hollywood Newsreel
1934 · Self
I've Got Your Number
1934 · Marie Lawson
Convention City
1933 · Nancy Lorraine
Havana Widows
1933 · Mae Knight
Footlight Parade
1933 · Nan
Goodbye Again
1933 · Anne Rogers
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · Carol
Blondie Johnson
1933 · Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Broadway Bad
1933 · Tony Landers
Just Around the Corner
1933 · Mrs. Graham
Lawyer Man
1932 · Olga Michaels
Central Park
1932 · Dot
Three on a Match
1932 · Mary Keaton
Big City Blues
1932 · Vida Fleet
Make Me a Star
1932 · 'Flips' Montague
Miss Pinkerton
1932 · Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · Maizie Dickson
The Crowd Roars
1932 · Anne Scott
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Schatzi Sutro
Union Depot
1932 · Ruth Collins
Blonde Crazy
1931 · Anne Roberts
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931 · Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
The Reckless Hour
1931 · Myrtle Nichols
Night Nurse
1931 · Maloney
Big Business Girl
1931 · Pearl
My Past
1931 · Marian Moore
The Public Enemy
1931 · Mamie
God's Gift to Women
1931 · Fifi
Illicit
1931 · Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Millie
1931 · Angie
Other Men's Women
1931 · Marie
Sinners' Holiday
1930 · Myrtle
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
The Office Wife
1930 · Katharine Murdock
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930 · Self
The Heart Breaker
1930
The Devil's Parade
1930
Broadway's Like That
1930 · Ruth's Pal
TV shows (51)
The Rebels
1979 · Mrs. Brumple
$weepstake$
1979 · Mme. Grimaldi
Fantasy Island
1978 · Naomi Gittings
The Love Boat
1977 · Ramona Bevans
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Mrs. Pruitt
Switch
1975 · Mrs. Lear
The Snoop Sisters
1973 · Madame Mimi
Police Story
1973
Banyon
1972 · Peggy Revere
The Rookies
1972
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Aunt Louise
McCloud
1970
Love, American Style
1969
Medical Center
1969 · Doris
Here Come the Brides
1968 · Lottie Hatfield
The Name of the Game
1968 · Miss Wall
The Outsider
1968 · Sadie Burch
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Miss Lottie
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · Madame
Family Affair
1966
That Girl
1966
Summer Fun
1966
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Mrs. Melvin Freebie
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Florabelle Campbell
Burke's Law
1963 · Ethel Kronkeit, Candy Sturdevant
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 · T.T. Hill
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Miss Zilke
The Lucy Show
1962 · Joan Brenner
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Virginian
1962 · Rosanna Dobie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Dolly Marlowe
My Three Sons
1960 · Harriet Blanchard
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Helene Terry
The Untouchables
1959 · Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Millicent Brass
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Phyllis Britt
Bonanza
1959 · Lillian Manfred
The Real McCoys
1957 · Aunt Win
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Playwrights '56
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Rose Kelsey
General Electric Theater
1953 · Joan Preston
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Calamity Jane
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · May
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
Suspense
1949 · Clara
Studio One
1948 · Ruth Breen
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self