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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Joan Blondell Biography / Wiki
Name | Joan Blondell |
Also Know | Rose Joan Blondell, Джоан Блонделл, Rosebud Blondell |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Date of Birth | 1906-08-30 |
Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
Deathday | 1979-12-25 |
Joan Blondell Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Blondie Johnson | Virginia M. “Blondie” Johnson | 1933-02-25 | A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss…. |
Gold Diggers of 1933 | Carol King | 1933-05-27 | Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy … |
Lady for a Night | Jenny Blake | 1942-01-05 | Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society…. |
The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Schatzi Sutro | 1932-02-03 | A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal… |
Three on a Match | Mary Keaton | 1932-10-29 | Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery … |
Dames | Mabel Anderson | 1934-09-01 | A reformer’s daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show…. |
Topper Returns | Gail Richards | 1941-03-21 | Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it’s Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of h… |
Three Girls About Town | Hope Banner | 1941-10-23 | Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are “convention hostesses” in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician’s convention is leaving and the … |
The Famous Ferguson Case | Maizie Dickson | 1932-04-19 | A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft… |
We’re in the Money | Ginger Stewart | 1935-08-17 | Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they’re offered a thousand dollars to serve fou… |
Big City Blues | Vida Fleet | 1932-09-18 | An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets … |
Miss Pacific Fleet | Gloria Fay | 1935-12-14 | A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title “Miss Pacific Fleet”…. |
Central Park | Dot | 1932-12-10 | Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again i… |
Miss Pinkerton | Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton | 1932-05-27 | Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to fer… |
Just Around the Corner | Mrs. Graham | 1933-01-17 | Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE’s home appliances…. |
Smarty | Vicki | 1934-05-19 | Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn’t long before he ups and clips … |
Kansas City Princess | Rosie Sturges | 1934-09-14 | Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynami… |
I Want a Divorce | Geraldine Brokaw | 1940-09-20 | Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake…. |
Havana Widows | Mae Knight | 1933-11-18 | Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana…. |
I’ve Got Your Number | Marie Lawson | 1934-02-24 | Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes…. |
Broadway Bad | Tony Landers | 1933-02-24 | Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing…. |
Convention City | Nancy Lorraine | 1933-12-14 | Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City…. |
Model Wife | Joan Keating Chambers | 1941-04-17 | Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage…. |
Traveling Saleslady | Angela Twitchell | 1935-03-28 | A toothpaste magnate’s mischievous daughter, tired of her father’s traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father’s rival and a… |
Make Me a Star | ‘Flips’ Montague | 1932-07-01 | A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent…. |
One And One Is One | Herself | 1936-01-01 | These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses…. |
Breakdowns of 1939 | Herself | 1940-01-02 | Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939…. |
The Devil’s Parade | 1930-06-06 | A Musical Revue set in Hades…. | |
The Heart Breaker | 1930-06-30 | Plot unknown…. | |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Aunt Sissy | 1945-02-28 | In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro… |
Bullets or Ballots | Lee Morgan | 1936-06-06 | After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger th… |
Footlight Parade | Nan Prescott | 1933-10-21 | A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going … |
Blonde Crazy | Anne Roberts | 1931-12-03 | Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice…. |
East Side of Heaven | Mary Wilson | 1939-04-07 | A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child’s family…. |
Broadway Gondolier | Alice Hughes | 1935-07-27 | A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job…. |
Gold Diggers of 1937 | Norma Perry | 1936-12-28 | The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by co… |
Two Girls on Broadway | Molly Mahoney | 1940-04-19 | Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney w… |
The Crowd Roars | Anne Scott | 1932-04-16 | Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to beco… |
Lawyer Man | Olga Michaels | 1932-12-24 | Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam’s sudden renown att… |
Union Depot | Ruth Collins | 1932-01-14 | Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S… |
Good Girls Go to Paris | Jenny Swanson | 1939-06-20 | Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come … |
The Perfect Specimen | Mona Carter | 1937-10-23 | Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother’s wish… |
Three Men on a Horse | Mabel | 1936-11-21 | A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers…. |
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | (archive footage) | 2008-10-21 | Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film…. |
Stand-In | Lester Plum | 1937-10-29 | An east coast efficiency expert who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio receives some help fro… |
Sons o’ Guns | Yvonne | 1936-05-13 | Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn’t want to join … |
The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Rosemary Durant | 1947-06-02 | Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside…. |
The Amazing Mr. Williams | Maxine Carroll | 1939-11-22 | Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor’s secretary. Or isn’t he rather married with his job? For … |
Stage Struck | Peggy Revere | 1936-09-12 | A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract…. |
Goodbye Again | Anne Rogers | 1933-09-09 | Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author’s savvy secretary, who’s s… |
Off the Record | Jane Morgan | 1939-01-21 | After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother’s gang to go to prison…. |
There’s Always a Woman | Sally Reardon | 1938-04-20 | An investigator for the District Attorney’s office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give… |
The King and the Chorus Girl | Miss Dorothy Ellis | 1937-03-27 | A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl…. |
Back in Circulation | ‘Timmy’ Blake | 1937-09-25 | Morning Express ace reporter ‘Timmy’ Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express get… |
He Was Her Man | Rose Lawrence | 1934-06-16 | A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his “pals”…. |
Big Daddy | 1969-06-11 | A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from t… | |
The Dead Don’t Die | Levenia | 1975-01-14 | In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world…. |
Adventure | Helen Melohn | 1945-12-28 | A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian…. |
Stay Away, Joe | Glenda Callahan | 1968-03-08 | Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can success… |
Night Nurse | Maloney | 1931-07-16 | Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small chil… |
Cry ‘Havoc’ | Grace | 1943-11-23 | The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn’t what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitres… |
The Kid from Kokomo | Doris Harvey | 1939-05-23 | Gruff boxing manager “Square Shooting Murph” Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea… |
Angel Baby | Mollie Hays | 1961-05-14 | A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural … |
Kona Coast | Kittibelle Lightfoot | 1968-05-01 | Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party … |
The Blue Veil | Annie Rawlins | 1951-10-26 | A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children’s nurse…. |
Lizzie | Aunt Morgan | 1957-04-04 | A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth…. |
My Past | Marian Moore | 1931-05-03 | A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one…. |
Don Juan Quilligan | Marjorie Mossrock | 1945-06-01 | When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them…. |
God’s Gift to Women | Fifi | 1931-04-13 | A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health…. |
Broadway’s Like That | Ruth’s Pal | 1930-03-04 | A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife…. |
Hollywood Newsreel | Self | 1934-03-24 | A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner B… |
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 | Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend…. |
The Woman Inside | Aunt Coll | 1981-09-01 | A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970’s. Canadian / American production…. |
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: ‘Trouble Shots’ | 1931-09-18 | Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots…. | |
Desk Set | Peg Costello | 1957-08-02 | A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network’s research staff…. |
Opening Night | Sarah Goode | 1977-12-22 | Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about agin… |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Violet | 1957-07-29 | To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover…. |
The Public Enemy | Mamie | 1931-04-23 | Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo… |
Nightmare Alley | Zeena Krumbein | 1947-10-09 | Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with “Mademoiselle Zeena” and her alcoholic husband, Pete…. |
The Glove | Mrs. Fitzgerald | 1979-12-01 | In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock’… |
Christmas Eve | Ann Nelson | 1947-10-31 | The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three l… |
Big Business Girl | Pearl | 1931-06-12 | A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band…. |
Colleen | Minnie Hawkins | 1936-03-21 | Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees… |
Ride Beyond Vengeance | Mrs. Lavender | 1966-01-01 | Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him,… |
The Reckless Hour | Allen Crane | 1931-08-15 | Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a … |
Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 | Collection of Warner’s stars blundering through missed takes…. |
And She Learned About Dames | Herself | 1934-03-27 | Students at New York’s Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury’s Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen a… |
Support Your Local Gunfighter | Jenny | 1971-05-26 | A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he’s a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv… |
For Heaven’s Sake | Daphne Peters | 1950-12-15 | An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born…. |
Advance to the Rear | Easy Jenny | 1964-06-10 | As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur… |
Winchester ’73 | Larouge | 1967-03-13 | TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession … |
The Baron | Mama Lou | 1977-01-01 | A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he’s forced to borrow money from the Mafia…. |
Winner Take All | Beverly Craig | 1975-03-03 | The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling…. |
The Office Wife | Katharine Murdock | 1930-08-23 | Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the ‘Office Wife’. An executive stenographer’s duties creates a relationship approaching that of … |
Death at Love House | Marcella Geffenhart | 1976-09-02 | Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had … |
Battered | Edna Thompson | 1978-09-26 | Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their hus… |
The Cincinnati Kid | Lady Fingers | 1965-10-15 | An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game…. |
This Could Be the Night | Crystal St. Clair | 1957-05-14 | To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub…. |
Illicit | Helen ‘Duckie’ Childers | 1931-02-14 | Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destro… |
The Rebels | Mrs. Brumple | 1979-05-14 | Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed congress. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries…. |
Millie | Angie | 1931-02-08 | Millie Blake is very careful about picking her husband, but that is no guarantee that a marriage will turn out well, nor that she will…. |
Sinners’ Holiday | Myrtle | 1930-10-11 | Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-u… |
Other Men’s Women | Marie | 1931-01-17 | The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife…. |
Waterhole #3 | Lavinia | 1967-10-10 | After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buri… |
The Champ | Dolly Kenyon | 1979-07-10 | The more you love, the harder you fight. The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to … |
The Phynx | Ruby | 1970-03-06 | A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA…. |
The Spy in the Green Hat | Mrs. ‘Fingers’ Stilletto | 1967-02-03 | “Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)” on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from … |
The Opposite Sex | Edith Potter | 1956-11-15 | Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to … |
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Herself | 2008-05-15 | Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century…. |
Going Hollywood: The ’30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
Grease | Vi | 1978-07-07 | Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, wi… |
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Landlady | 1976-07-26 | A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s…. |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 | Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression…. |
Talent Scout | Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1937-07-24 | A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom…. |
Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 | A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the … |
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Herself | 1930-08-01 | Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten… |
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