Joan Blondell
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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.
Known for
Credits
Grease (1978)
as Vi
Nightmare Alley (1947)
as Zeena Krumbein
Footlight Parade (1933)
as Nan
Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
as Self
Convention City (1933)
as Nancy Lorraine
Big Daddy (1969)
Actor
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
as Lady Fingers
The Champ (1979)
as Dolly Kenyon
The Public Enemy (1931)
as Mamie
Blondie Johnson (1933)
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Model Wife (1941)
as Joan Keating Chambers
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
as Lee Morgan
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
as Glenda Callahan
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
as Jenny
Advance to the Rear (1964)
as Easy Jenny
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
as Mrs. Lavender
Opening Night (1977)
as Sarah Goode
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
as Carol
Lizzie (1957)
as Aunt Morgan
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
This Could Be the Night (1957)
as Crystal St. Clair
Kilroy (1965)
as Rose Kelsey
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
as Aunt Sissy
The Office Wife (1930)
as Katharine Murdock
Just Around the Corner (1933)
as Mrs. Graham
Desk Set (1957)
as Peg Costello
The Opposite Sex (1956)
as Edith Potter
Topper Returns (1941)
as Gail Richards
Other Men's Women (1931)
as Marie
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
The Blue Veil (1951)
as Annie Rawlins
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Landlady
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
as Maxine Carroll
The Phynx (1970)
as Ruby
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
as Norma Perry
The Crowd Roars (1932)
as Anne Scott
Night Nurse (1931)
as Maloney
Waterhole #3 (1967)
as Lavinia
Three on a Match (1932)
as Mary Keaton
Angel Baby (1961)
as Mollie Hays
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mona Carter
Union Depot (1932)
as Ruth Collins
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Geraldine Brokaw
Big City Blues (1932)
as Vida Fleet
The Glove (1979)
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Heart Breaker (1930)
Actor
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Jenny Swanson
Adventure (1945)
as Helen Melohn
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
as Violet
The Dead Don't Die (1975)
as Levenia
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
as Marjorie Mossrock
And She Learned About Dames (1934)
as Herself
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
as Daphne Peters
Kona Coast (1968)
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Big Business Girl (1931)
as Pearl
Millie (1931)
as Angie
Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Hope Banner
Dames (1934)
as Mabel Anderson
The Devil's Parade (1930)
Actor
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
as Rosemary Durant
Lady for a Night (1942)
as Jenny Blake
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
as Molly Mahoney
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
as Schatzi Sutro
Winner Take All (1975)
as Beverly Craig
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
as Gloria Fay
Off the Record (1939)
as Jane Morgan
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
as Grace
I've Got Your Number (1934)
as Marie Lawson
Lawyer Man (1932)
as Olga Michaels
Central Park (1932)
as Dot
Stand-In (1937)
as Lester Plum
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Blonde Crazy (1931)
as Anne Roberts
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
as Angela Twitchell
Winchester '73 (1967)
as Larouge
Stage Struck (1936)
as Peggy Revere
There's Always a Woman (1938)
as Sally Reardon
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Talent Scout (1937)
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5" (1936)
Actor
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
as Mabel
Child of Trouble (1957)
as Helen Green
The Baron (1977)
as Mama Lou
Death at Love House (1976)
as Marcella Geffenhart
The Voice of Hollywood (1930)
Actor
One And One Is One (1936)
as Herself
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
as Alice Hughes
Make Me a Star (1932)
as 'Flips' Montague
He Was Her Man (1934)
as Rose Lawrence
Kansas City Princess (1934)
as Rosie Sturges
Sons o' Guns (1936)
as Yvonne
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
as Maizie Dickson
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
as Doris Harvey
East Side of Heaven (1939)
as Mary Wilson
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
God's Gift to Women (1931)
as Fifi
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning" (1936)
Actor
Battered (1978)
as Edna Thompson
Christmas Eve (1947)
as Ann Nelson
Colleen (1936)
as Minnie Hawkins
Back in Circulation (1937)
as 'Timmy' Blake
Broadway Bad (1933)
as Tony Landers
We're in the Money (1935)
as Ginger Stewart
The Reckless Hour (1931)
as Myrtle Nichols
Smarty (1934)
as Vicki
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
Goodbye Again (1933)
as Anne Rogers
Sinners' Holiday (1930)
as Myrtle
Breakdowns of 1939 (1939)
as Self
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' (1931)
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
Illicit (1931)
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935)
Actor
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
My Past (1931)
as Marian Moore
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
as Self
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965)
as Self
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie" (1936)
Actor
Havana Widows (1933)
as Mae Knight
A Marriage of Strangers (1959)
as Mrs. Patrick
Broadway's Like That (1930)
as Ruth's Pal
The Woman Inside (1981)
as Aunt Coll