Joan Blondell
Acting • Born 1906-08-30 – Died 1979-12-25
Biography
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.
Filmography
178 credits
The Cincinnati Kid
Movie • 1965
Lady Fingers
Grease
Movie • 1978
Vi
Blondie Johnson
Movie • 1933
Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie • 1945
Aunt Sissy
Gold Diggers of 1933
Movie • 1933
Carol
Desk Set
Movie • 1957
Peg Costello
Opening Night
Movie • 1977
Sarah Goode
Bullets or Ballots
Movie • 1936
Lee Morgan
Footlight Parade
Movie • 1933
Nan Prescott
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
Jenny Blake
The Dead Don't Die
Movie • 1975
Levenia
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie • 1932
Schatzi Sutro
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Landlady
Blonde Crazy
Movie • 1931
Anne Roberts
Three on a Match
Movie • 1932
Mary Keaton
The Opposite Sex
Movie • 1956
Edith Potter
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Movie • 1957
Violet
East Side of Heaven
Movie • 1939
Mary Wilson
Broadway Gondolier
Movie • 1935
Alice Hughes
Dames
Movie • 1934
Mabel Anderson
Adventure
Movie • 1945
Helen Melohn
Topper Returns
Movie • 1941
Gail Richards
The Public Enemy
Movie • 1931
Mamie
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Jenny
Stay Away, Joe
Movie • 1968
Glenda Callahan
The Glove
Movie • 1979
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Nightmare Alley
Movie • 1947
Zeena Krumbein
Night Nurse
Movie • 1931
Maloney
Cry 'Havoc'
Movie • 1943
Grace
Gold Diggers of 1937
Movie • 1936
Norma Perry
Christmas Eve
Movie • 1947
Ann Nelson
The Office Wife
Movie • 1930
Katharine Murdock
Two Girls on Broadway
Movie • 1940
Molly Mahoney
Three Girls About Town
Movie • 1941
Hope Banner
This Could Be the Night
Movie • 1957
Crystal St. Clair
For Heaven's Sake
Movie • 1950
Daphne Peters
Illicit
Movie • 1931
Helen 'Duckie' Childers
The Famous Ferguson Case
Movie • 1932
Maizie Dickson
The Kid from Kokomo
Movie • 1939
Doris Harvey
The Crowd Roars
Movie • 1932
Anne Scott
Angel Baby
Movie • 1961
Mollie Hays
Big Business Girl
Movie • 1931
Pearl
Colleen
Movie • 1936
Minnie Hawkins
Lawyer Man
Movie • 1932
Olga Michaels
Union Depot
Movie • 1932
Ruth Collins
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Jenny Swanson
Kona Coast
Movie • 1968
Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
The Blue Veil
Movie • 1951
Annie Rawlins
The Perfect Specimen
Movie • 1937
Mona Carter
Three Men on a Horse
Movie • 1936
Mabel
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Millie
Movie • 1931
Angie
Lizzie
Movie • 1957
Aunt Morgan
Big City Blues
Movie • 1932
Vida Fleet
We're in the Money
Movie • 1935
Ginger Stewart
Advance to the Rear
Movie • 1964
Easy Jenny
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Movie • 1947
Rosemary Durant
Sons o' Guns
Movie • 1936
Yvonne
Stand-In
Movie • 1937
Lester Plum
The King and the Chorus Girl
Movie • 1937
Miss Dorothy Ellis
The Reckless Hour
Movie • 1931
Allen Crane
Make Me a Star
Movie • 1932
'Flips' Montague
There's Always a Woman
Movie • 1938
Sally Reardon
The Phynx
Movie • 1970
Ruby
Miss Pacific Fleet
Movie • 1935
Gloria Fay
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Maxine Carroll
Sinners' Holiday
Movie • 1930
Myrtle
Traveling Saleslady
Movie • 1935
Angela Twitchell
He Was Her Man
Movie • 1934
Rose Lawrence
Central Park
Movie • 1932
Dot
Miss Pinkerton
Movie • 1932
Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
Stage Struck
Movie • 1936
Peggy Revere
Just Around the Corner
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Graham
Smarty
Movie • 1934
Vicki
Kansas City Princess
Movie • 1934
Rosie Sturges
My Past
Movie • 1931
Marian Moore
I Want a Divorce
Movie • 1940
Geraldine Brokaw
Goodbye Again
Movie • 1933
Anne Rogers
Off the Record
Movie • 1939
Jane Morgan
Havana Widows
Movie • 1933
Mae Knight
Don Juan Quilligan
Movie • 1945
Marjorie Mossrock
I've Got Your Number
Movie • 1934
Marie Lawson
Other Men's Women
Movie • 1931
Marie
Broadway Bad
Movie • 1933
Tony Landers
Convention City
Movie • 1933
Nancy Lorraine
God's Gift to Women
Movie • 1931
Fifi
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
A Marriage of Strangers
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Patrick
The Spy in the Green Hat
Movie • 1967
Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
Broadway's Like That
Movie • 1930
Ruth's Pal
Model Wife
Movie • 1941
Joan Keating Chambers
Back in Circulation
Movie • 1937
'Timmy' Blake
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
Movie • 1965
Self
Winchester '73
Movie • 1967
Larouge
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Movie • 1930
Self
Kilroy
Movie • 1965
Rose Kelsey
The Baron
Movie • 1977
Mama Lou
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
The Champ
Movie • 1979
Dolly Kenyon
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Movie • 1966
Mrs. Lavender
Hollywood Newsreel
Movie • 1934
Self
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Waterhole #3
Movie • 1967
Lavinia
Winner Take All
Movie • 1975
Beverly Craig
Talent Scout
Movie • 1937
Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
One And One Is One
Movie • 1936
Herself
The Voice of Hollywood
Movie • 1930
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie • 2008
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Death at Love House
Movie • 1976
Marcella Geffenhart
The Woman Inside
Movie • 1981
Aunt Coll
Things You Never See on the Screen
Movie • 1935
Self
Breakdowns of 1939
Movie • 1939
Self
Battered
Movie • 1978
Edna Thompson
And She Learned About Dames
Movie • 1934
Herself
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Movie • 1931
Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
Big Daddy
Movie • 1969
The Heart Breaker
Movie • 1930
The Devil's Parade
Movie • 1930
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Movie • 1935
Child of Trouble
Movie • 1957
Helen Green
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
Movie • 1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
Movie • 1936
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
Movie • 1936
Family Affair
TV • 1966
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Ethel Kronkeit
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
Madame
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
Harriet Blanchard
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Ramona Bevans
That Girl
TV • 1966
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Florabelle Campbell
Studio One
TV • 1948
Ruth Breen
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Joan Preston
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Phyllis Britt
Police Story
TV • 1973
Switch
TV • 1975
Mrs. Lear
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Rosanna Dobie
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
May
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Calamity Jane
McCloud
TV • 1970
Banyon
TV • 1972
Peggy Revere
Here Come the Brides
TV • 1968
Lottie Hatfield
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Millicent Brass
Suspense
TV • 1949
Clara
Summer Fun
TV • 1966
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Miss Zilke
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dolly Marlowe
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Helene Terry
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Joan Brenner
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
T.T. Hill
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Rose Kelsey
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Miss Lottie
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Candy Sturdevant
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Mrs. Melvin Freebie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Mrs. Pruitt
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Snoop Sisters
TV • 1973
Madame Mimi
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
TV • 1971
Aunt Louise
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Miss Wall
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Doris
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Lillian Manfred
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
Aunt Win
The Outsider
TV • 1968
Sadie Burch
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Mme. Grimaldi
The Rebels
TV • 1979
Mrs. Brumple