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Joan Blondell

Actor
Born August 30, 1906Died December 25, 1979 (73 years)
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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Bonanza
  • Petticoat Junction
  • Topper Returns
  • That Girl
  • The Lucy Show
  • The Real McCoys
  • Death Valley Days
  • There's Always a Woman
  • Millie
  • Christmas Eve
  • The Baron
  • Winner Take All
Known For
  • The Public Enemy
  • Gold Diggers of 1933
  • Three on a Match
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Opening Night
  • Topper Returns
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Footlight Parade
  • Dames
  • Desk Set
  • Bullets or Ballots
  • Night Nurse
  • The Champ
  • Support Your Local Gunfighter
  • Blonde Crazy
  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
  • Blondie Johnson
  • The Crowd Roars
  • Stand-In
  • Lady for a Night
  • Gold Diggers of 1937
  • Miss Pinkerton
  • Union Depot
  • Lawyer Man

Filmography

1998
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
1978
Battered · as Edna Thompson
1978
Grease · as Vi
1977
Opening Night · as Sarah Goode
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Ramona Bevans
1977
Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Naomi Gittings
1977
The Baron · as Mama Lou
1976
Death at Love House · as Marcella Geffenhart
1976
1975
Starsky & Hutch (TV Series) · as Mrs. Pruitt
1975
Switch (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lear
1975
Winner Take All · as Beverly Craig
1975
The Dead Don't Die · as Levenia
1973
Police Story (TV Series)
1972
The Snoop Sisters (TV Series) · as Madame Mimi
1972
The Rookies (TV Series)
1971
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) · as Aunt Louise
1971
1971
Banyon (TV Series) · as Peggy Revere
1970
The Phynx · as Ruby
1970
McCloud (TV Series)
1969
1969
1969
1969
Medical Center (TV Series) · as Doris
1968
1968
The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Miss Wall
1968
The Outsider (TV Series)
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 (TV Series) · as Miss Lottie
1967
Winchester '73 · as Larouge
1967
The Spy in the Green Hat · as Mrs. 'fingers' Stilletto
1966
1966
Family Affair (TV Series)
1966
That Girl (TV Series)
1966
Summer Fun (TV Series)
1966
Ride Beyond Vengeance · as Mrs. Lavender
1965
The Cincinnati Kid · as Lady Fingers
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
1964
Slattery's People (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lewis
1964
Advance to the Rear · as Easy Jenny
1963
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) · as Mrs. Melvin Freebie
1963
Petticoat Junction (TV Series) · as Florabelle Campbell
1963
Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Candy Sturdevant
1963
The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) · as T.t. Hill
1963
Vacation Playhouse (TV Series) · as Miss Zilke
1962
The Lucy Show (TV Series) · as Joan Brenner
1962
The Virginian (TV Series) · as Rosanna Dobie
1961
Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Dolly Marlowe
1961
The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Emily Komack
1961
Angel Baby · as Mollie Hays
1960
The Witness (TV Series) · as Ma Barker
1960
My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Harriet Blanchard
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as Helene Terry
1959
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) · as Millicent Brass
1959
The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Phyllis Britt
1959
Bonanza (TV Series) · as Lillian Manfred
1959
The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Hannah 'lucy' Wagnall
1957
This Could Be the Night · as Crystal St. Clair
1957
The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Aunt Win
1957
Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Ma Bleecker
1957
Desk Set · as Peg Costello
1957
1957
Lizzie · as Aunt Morgan
1956
The Opposite Sex · as Edith Potter
1956
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Helen Green
1955
Playwrights '56 (TV Series)
1954
Disneyland (TV Series) · as Rose Kelsey
1954
Shower of Stars (TV Series) · as Bonny
1953
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Ellen
1953
General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Joan Preston
1952
Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Lucy Tutaine
1951
The Blue Veil · as Annie Rawlins
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Calamity Jane
1950
For Heaven's Sake · as Daphne Peters
1950
The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as May
1949
Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast
1949
Suspense (TV Series) · as Clara
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Ruth Breen
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
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
1937
The Perfect Specimen · as Mona Carter
1937
Stand-In · as Lester Plum
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
1936
Stage Struck · as Peggy Revere
1936
Bullets or Ballots · as Lee Morgan
1936
Sons o' Guns · as Yvonne
1936
Colleen · as Minnie Hawkins
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet · as Gloria Fay
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
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
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
Miss Pinkerton · as Nurse Georgia Adams Aka Miss Pinkerton
1932
Make Me a Star · as 'flips' Montague
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case · as Maizie Dickson
1932
Union Depot · as Ruth Collins
1932
The Crowd Roars · as Anne Scott
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them · as Schatzi Sutro
1931
Blonde Crazy · as Anne Roberts
1931
The Reckless Hour · as Allen Crane
1931
Night Nurse · as Maloney
1931
Big Business Girl · as Pearl
1931
The Public Enemy · as Mamie
1931
My Past · as Marian Moore
1931
1931
Illicit · as Helen 'duckie' Childers
1931
Millie · as Angie
1930
Other Men's Women · as Marie
1930
Sinners' Holiday · as Myrtle
1930
The Office Wife · as Katharine Murdock

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