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