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