Portrait of Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

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.

Born: August 30, 1906

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

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
The Glove

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

1979
The Champ

as Dolly Kenyon

1979
The Rebels

as Mrs. Brumple

1978
Battered

as Edna Thompson

1978
Grease

as Vi

1977
Opening Night

as Sarah Goode

1977
The Love Boat

as Ramona Bevans

1977
The Baron

as Mama Lou

1976
Death at Love House

as Marcella Geffenhart

1975
Starsky & Hutch

as Mrs. Pruitt

1975
Switch

as Mrs. Lear

1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1975
Winner Take All

as Beverly Craig

1975
1973
The Snoop Sisters

as Madame Mimi

1972
Banyon

as Peggy Revere

1971
1970
The Phynx

as Ruby

1969
1968
Here Come the Brides

as Lottie Hatfield

1968
1968
The Outsider

as Sadie Burch

1968
Kona Coast

as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

1968
Stay Away, Joe

as Glenda Callahan

1967
Waterhole #3

as Lavinia

1967
1967
Winchester '73

as Larouge

1967
The Spy in the Green Hat

as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto

1966
Ride Beyond Vengeance

as Mrs. Lavender

1965
The Cincinnati Kid

as Lady Fingers

1965
Kilroy

as Rose Kelsey

1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto

1964
Advance to the Rear

as Easy Jenny

1963
Petticoat Junction

as Florabelle Campbell

1963
Burke's Law

as Ethel Kronkeit

1963
Burke's Law

as Candy Sturdevant

1963
Vacation Playhouse

as Miss Zilke

1962
The Lucy Show

as Joan Brenner

1962
The Virginian

as Rosanna Dobie

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Dolly Marlowe

1961
Angel Baby

as Mollie Hays

1960
My Three Sons

as Harriet Blanchard

1960
1959
The Untouchables

as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall

1959
Adventures in Paradise

as Millicent Brass

1959
The Twilight Zone

as Phyllis Britt

1959
Bonanza

as Lillian Manfred

1959
1957
The Real McCoys

as Aunt Win

1957
Desk Set

as Peg Costello

1957
This Could Be the Night

as Crystal St. Clair

1957
Child of Trouble

as Helen Green

1957
Lizzie

as Aunt Morgan

1956
The Opposite Sex

as Edith Potter

1953
1951
The Blue Veil

as Annie Rawlins

1951
1950
For Heaven's Sake

as Daphne Peters

1950
1949
Suspense

as Clara

1948
Studio One

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
1943
Cry 'Havoc'

as Grace

1942
Lady for a Night

as Jenny Blake

1941
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
There's Always a Woman

as Sally Reardon

1937
Stand-In

as Lester Plum

1937
The Perfect Specimen

as Mona Carter

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
Stage Struck

as Peggy Revere

1936
Bullets or Ballots

as Lee Morgan

1936
Sons o' Guns

as Yvonne

1936
Colleen

as Minnie Hawkins

1936
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
Blondie Johnson

as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

1933
Broadway Bad

as Tony Landers

1933
1932
Lawyer Man

as Olga Michaels

1932
1932
Three on a Match

as Mary Keaton

1932
Big City Blues

as Vida Fleet

1932
Make Me a Star

as 'Flips' Montague

1932
Miss Pinkerton

as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton

1932
The Famous Ferguson Case

as Maizie Dickson

1932
The Crowd Roars

as Anne Scott

1932
1932
Union Depot

as Ruth Collins

1931
Blonde Crazy

as Anne Roberts

1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)

1931
The Reckless Hour

as Allen Crane

1931
Night Nurse

as Maloney

1931
1931
My Past

as Marian Moore

1931
1931
Illicit

as Helen 'Duckie' Childers

1931
Millie

as Angie

1931
1930
1930
The Office Wife

as Katharine Murdock

1930