Joan Blondell

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.

Cast

The Cincinnati Kid

Blondie Johnson

Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Gold Diggers of 1933

Bullets or Ballots

Footlight Parade

Lady for a Night

The Dead Don't Die

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Three on a Match

The Opposite Sex

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

East Side of Heaven

Broadway Gondolier

The Public Enemy

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Glenda Callahan

Mrs. Fitzgerald

Nightmare Alley

Gold Diggers of 1937

The Office Wife

Katharine Murdock

Two Girls on Broadway

Three Girls About Town

This Could Be the Night

Crystal St. Clair

For Heaven's Sake

Helen 'Duckie' Childers

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Kid from Kokomo

The Crowd Roars

Big Business Girl

Good Girls Go to Paris

Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

The Perfect Specimen

Three Men on a Horse

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Self (archive footage)

We're in the Money

Advance to the Rear

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

Rosemary Durant

The King and the Chorus Girl

Miss Dorothy Ellis

The Reckless Hour

'Flips' Montague

There's Always a Woman

Miss Pacific Fleet

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Sinners' Holiday

Traveling Saleslady

Angela Twitchell

Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton

Just Around the Corner

Kansas City Princess

I Want a Divorce

Geraldine Brokaw

Don Juan Quilligan

Marjorie Mossrock

I've Got Your Number

Other Men's Women

Convention City

God's Gift to Women

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage)

A Marriage of Strangers

The Spy in the Green Hat

Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto

Broadway's Like That

Joan Keating Chambers

Back in Circulation

The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Self (archive footage)

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Hollywood Newsreel

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

Self (archive footage)

Winner Take All

Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

One And One Is One

The Voice of Hollywood

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Self (archive footage)

Death at Love House

Marcella Geffenhart

The Woman Inside

Things You Never See on the Screen

Breakdowns of 1939

And She Learned About Dames

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

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

Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)

The Heart Breaker

The Devil's Parade

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

Self (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8

Child of Trouble