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