Joan Blondell

Actor Aug 30 (died age 73) New York City, New York, USA 1930–2009 (79 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Grease

Film

The Public Enemy

Mamie

Film

Opening Night

Sarah Goode

Film

The Cincinnati Kid

Lady Fingers

Film

Nightmare Alley

Zeena Krumbein

Film

The Champ

Dolly Kenyon

Film

Gold Diggers of 1933

Carol

Film

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Aunt Sissy

Filmography

Acting (178)

Movies (128)

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

2009

as Self (archive footage)

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008

as Self

8.5

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

2008

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound

2006

as Self (archive footage)

4.9

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

1990

as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

The Woman Inside

as Aunt Coll

The Champ

as Dolly Kenyon

The Glove

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

The Rebels

as Mrs. Brumple

Grease

1978

as Vi

7.4

Battered

1978

as Edna Thompson

Opening Night

as Sarah Goode

The Baron

as Mama Lou

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

as Landlady

4.1

Death at Love House

1976

as Marcella Geffenhart

The Dead Don't Die

as Levenia

Winner Take All

as Beverly Craig

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

6.1

Support Your Local Gunfighter

as Jenny

The Phynx

as Ruby

Big Daddy

Stay Away, Joe

as Glenda Callahan

Kona Coast

as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

Waterhole #3

as Lavinia

Winchester '73

as Larouge

The Spy in the Green Hat

1967

as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto

6.6

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966

as Mrs. Lavender

5.9

The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle

1965

as Self

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

as Lady Fingers

7.0

Kilroy

1965

as Rose Kelsey

Advance to the Rear

as Easy Jenny

Angel Baby

as Mollie Hays

A Marriage of Strangers

1959

as Mrs. Patrick

Lizzie

as Aunt Morgan

Desk Set

as Peg Costello

This Could Be the Night

1957

as Crystal St. Clair

5.8

Child of Trouble

1957

as Helen Green

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

as Violet

The Opposite Sex

as Edith Potter

The Blue Veil

as Annie Rawlins

For Heaven's Sake

as Daphne Peters

Nightmare Alley

as Zeena Krumbein

Christmas Eve

as Ann Nelson

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

1947

as Rosemary Durant

5.7

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Aunt Sissy

Adventure

as Helen Melohn

Don Juan Quilligan

as Marjorie Mossrock

Cry 'Havoc'

as Grace

Lady for a Night

as Jenny Blake

Topper Returns

as Gail Richards

Model Wife

as Joan Keating Chambers

5.0

Three Girls About Town

1941

as Hope Banner

5.3

I Want a Divorce

1940

as Geraldine Brokaw

Two Girls on Broadway

1940

as Molly Mahoney

6.6

The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Maxine Carroll

Off the Record

as Jane Morgan

The Kid from Kokomo

as Doris Harvey

East Side of Heaven

as Mary Wilson

Breakdowns of 1939

as Self

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

as Jenny Swanson

7.0

There's Always a Woman

as Sally Reardon

Stand-In

as Lester Plum

Talent Scout

as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

The King and the Chorus Girl

1937

as Miss Dorothy Ellis

Back in Circulation

as 'Timmy' Blake

The Perfect Specimen

as Mona Carter

Stage Struck

as Peggy Revere

Bullets or Ballots

as Lee Morgan

One And One Is One

as Herself

Gold Diggers of 1937

as Norma Perry

Colleen

as Minnie Hawkins

Sons o' Guns

as Yvonne

Three Men on a Horse

as Mabel

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"

1936

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"

1936

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"

1936

Traveling Saleslady

1935

as Angela Twitchell

5.5

Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8

Broadway Gondolier

as Alice Hughes

We're in the Money

as Ginger Stewart

Miss Pacific Fleet

as Gloria Fay

Things You Never See on the Screen

as Self

I've Got Your Number

as Marie Lawson

Smarty

as Vicki

He Was Her Man

as Rose Lawrence

Hollywood Newsreel

as Self

Dames

as Mabel Anderson

And She Learned About Dames

as Herself

Kansas City Princess

as Rosie Sturges

Blondie Johnson

as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

Footlight Parade

as Nan Prescott

Convention City

as Nancy Lorraine

Gold Diggers of 1933

as Carol

Goodbye Again

as Anne Rogers

Broadway Bad

as Tony Landers

Just Around the Corner

as Mrs. Graham

Havana Widows

as Mae Knight

The Famous Ferguson Case

as Maizie Dickson

The Crowd Roars

as Anne Scott

Miss Pinkerton

as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton

Union Depot

as Ruth Collins

Lawyer Man

as Olga Michaels

Three on a Match

as Mary Keaton

Big City Blues

as Vida Fleet

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

as Schatzi Sutro

Make Me a Star

as 'Flips' Montague

Central Park

as Dot

The Reckless Hour

as Allen Crane

Blonde Crazy

as Anne Roberts

The Public Enemy

as Mamie

My Past

as Marian Moore

Big Business Girl

as Pearl

Illicit

as Helen 'Duckie' Childers

Night Nurse

as Maloney

Other Men's Women

as Marie

Millie

as Angie

God's Gift to Women

as Fifi

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

1931

as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)

6.0

The Voice of Hollywood

Sinners' Holiday

as Myrtle

The Heart Breaker

The Office Wife

as Katharine Murdock

Broadway's Like That

as Ruth's Pal

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930

as Self

3.4

The Devil's Parade

1930

Television (50)

$weepstake$

1979

as Mme. Grimaldi

The Rebels

1979

as Mrs. Brumple

The Love Boat

as Ramona Bevans

Starsky & Hutch

as Mrs. Pruitt

Switch

as Mrs. Lear

Police Story

The Snoop Sisters

as Madame Mimi

The Rookies

Banyon

as Peggy Revere

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

as Aunt Louise

McCloud

Love, American Style

Medical Center

as Doris

The Name of the Game

as Miss Wall

The Outsider

as Sadie Burch

Here Come the Brides

as Lottie Hatfield

The Guns of Will Sonnett

as Miss Lottie

That Girl

Family Affair

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

1966

as Madame

6.6

Summer Fun

1966

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto

7.1

Petticoat Junction

1963

as Florabelle Campbell

5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

as Mrs. Melvin Freebie

5.7

Burke's Law

1963

as Ethel Kronkeit

6.0

The Greatest Show on Earth

as T.T. Hill

Vacation Playhouse

as Miss Zilke

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Virginian

as Rosanna Dobie

The Lucy Show

as Joan Brenner

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Dr. Kildare

as Dolly Marlowe

My Three Sons

as Harriet Blanchard

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Helene Terry

Bonanza

as Lillian Manfred

The Twilight Zone

as Phyllis Britt

The Untouchables

as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall

7.8

Adventures in Paradise

1959

as Millicent Brass

5.7

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

as Self

The Real McCoys

as Aunt Win

Playwrights '56

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Rose Kelsey

7.8

General Electric Theater

1953

as Joan Preston

6.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Calamity Jane

What's My Line?

as Self

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Lux Video Theatre

as May

Suspense

as Clara

Studio One

as Ruth Breen

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self