Joan Blondell

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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Bonanza

The Mike Douglas Show

The Love Boat

My Three Sons

The Virginian

Love, American Style

The Twilight Zone

All Movies (127)

• Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story2008 · as Self
• Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Complicated Women2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge1990 · as Self (archive footage)
• Going Hollywood: The '30s1984 · as (archive footage)
• The Woman Inside1981 · as Aunt Coll
• The Glove1979 · as Mrs. Fitzgerald
• The Champ1979 · as Dolly Kenyon
• Battered1978 · as Edna Thompson
• Grease1978 · as Vi
• Opening Night1977 · as Sarah Goode
• The Baron1977 · as Mama Lou
• Death at Love House1976 · as Marcella Geffenhart
• Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976 · as Landlady
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• Winner Take All1975 · as Beverly Craig
• The Dead Don't Die1975 · as Levenia
• Support Your Local Gunfighter1971 · as Jenny
• The Phynx1970 · as Ruby
• Big Daddy1969
• Kona Coast1968 · as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
• Stay Away, Joe1968 · as Glenda Callahan
• Waterhole #31967 · as Lavinia
• Winchester '731967 · as Larouge
• The Spy in the Green Hat1967 · as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
• Ride Beyond Vengeance1966 · as Mrs. Lavender
• The Cincinnati Kid1965 · as Lady Fingers
• Kilroy1965 · as Rose Kelsey
• The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle1965 · as Self
• Advance to the Rear1964 · as Easy Jenny
• Angel Baby1961 · as Mollie Hays
• A Marriage of Strangers1959 · as Mrs. Patrick
• Desk Set1957 · as Peg Costello
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?1957 · as Violet
• This Could Be the Night1957 · as Crystal St. Clair
• Child of Trouble1957 · as Helen Green
• Lizzie1957 · as Aunt Morgan
• The Opposite Sex1956 · as Edith Potter
• The Blue Veil1951 · as Annie Rawlins
• For Heaven's Sake1950 · as Daphne Peters
• Christmas Eve1947 · as Ann Nelson
• Nightmare Alley1947 · as Zeena Krumbein
• The Corpse Came C.O.D.1947 · as Rosemary Durant
• Adventure1945 · as Helen Melohn
• Don Juan Quilligan1945 · as Marjorie Mossrock
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn1945 · as Aunt Sissy
• Cry 'Havoc'1943 · as Grace
• Lady for a Night1942 · as Jenny Blake
• Three Girls About Town1941 · as Hope Banner
• Model Wife1941 · as Joan Keating Chambers
• Topper Returns1941 · as Gail Richards
• I Want a Divorce1940 · as Geraldine Brokaw
• Two Girls on Broadway1940 · as Molly Mahoney
• Breakdowns of 19391939 · as Self
• The Amazing Mr. Williams1939 · as Maxine Carroll
• Good Girls Go to Paris1939 · as Jenny Swanson
• The Kid from Kokomo1939 · as Doris Harvey
• East Side of Heaven1939 · as Mary Wilson
• Off the Record1939 · as Jane Morgan
• There's Always a Woman1938 · as Sally Reardon
• Stand-In1937 · as Lester Plum
• The Perfect Specimen1937 · as Mona Carter
• Back in Circulation1937 · as 'Timmy' Blake
• Talent Scout1937 · as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The King and the Chorus Girl1937 · as Miss Dorothy Ellis
• Gold Diggers of 19371936 · as Norma Perry
• Three Men on a Horse1936 · as Mabel
• Stage Struck1936 · as Peggy Revere
• Bullets or Ballots1936 · as Lee Morgan
• Sons o' Guns1936 · as Yvonne
• Colleen1936 · as Minnie Hawkins
• One And One Is One1936 · as Herself
• Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"1936
• Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"1936
• Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"1936
• Miss Pacific Fleet1935 · as Gloria Fay
• Things You Never See on the Screen1935 · as Self
• We're in the Money1935 · as Ginger Stewart
• Broadway Gondolier1935 · as Alice Hughes
• Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 81935
• Traveling Saleslady1935 · as Angela Twitchell
• Kansas City Princess1934 · as Rosie Sturges
• Dames1934 · as Mabel Anderson
• He Was Her Man1934 · as Rose Lawrence
• Smarty1934 · as Vicki
• And She Learned About Dames1934 · as Herself
• Hollywood Newsreel1934 · as Self
• I've Got Your Number1934 · as Marie Lawson
• Convention City1933 · as Nancy Lorraine
• Havana Widows1933 · as Mae Knight
• Footlight Parade1933 · as Nan Prescott
• Goodbye Again1933 · as Anne Rogers
• Gold Diggers of 19331933 · as Carol
• Blondie Johnson1933 · as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
• Broadway Bad1933 · as Tony Landers
• Just Around the Corner1933 · as Mrs. Graham
• Lawyer Man1932 · as Olga Michaels
• Central Park1932 · as Dot
• Three on a Match1932 · as Mary Keaton
• Big City Blues1932 · as Vida Fleet
• Make Me a Star1932 · as 'Flips' Montague
• Miss Pinkerton1932 · as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
• The Famous Ferguson Case1932 · as Maizie Dickson
• The Crowd Roars1932 · as Anne Scott
• The Greeks Had a Word for Them1932 · as Schatzi Sutro
• Union Depot1932 · as Ruth Collins
• Blonde Crazy1931 · as Anne Roberts
• How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'1931 · as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
• The Reckless Hour1931 · as Myrtle Nichols
• Night Nurse1931 · as Maloney
• Big Business Girl1931 · as Pearl
• My Past1931 · as Marian Moore
• The Public Enemy1931 · as Mamie
• God's Gift to Women1931 · as Fifi
• Illicit1931 · as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
• Millie1931 · as Angie
• Other Men's Women1931 · as Marie
• Sinners' Holiday1930 · as Myrtle
• The Voice of Hollywood1930
• The Office Wife1930 · as Katharine Murdock
• An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee1930 · as Self
• The Heart Breaker1930
• The Devil's Parade1930
• Broadway's Like That1930 · as Ruth's Pal

All TV Shows (52)

• The Rebels1979 · as Mrs. Brumple
• $weepstake$1979 · as Mme. Grimaldi
• Fantasy Island1978 · as Naomi Gittings
• The Love Boat1977 · as Ramona Bevans
• Starsky & Hutch1975 · as Mrs. Pruitt
• Switch1975 · as Mrs. Lear
• The Snoop Sisters1973 · as Madame Mimi
• Police Story1973
• Banyon1972 · as Peggy Revere
• The Rookies1972
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show1971 · as Aunt Louise
• McCloud1970
• Love, American Style1969
• Medical Center1969 · as Doris
• Here Come the Brides1968 · as Lottie Hatfield
• The Name of the Game1968 · as Miss Wall
• The Outsider1968 · as Sadie Burch
• The Guns of Will Sonnett1967 · as Miss Lottie
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.1966 · as Madame
• Family Affair1966
• That Girl1966
• Summer Fun1966
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964 · as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963 · as Mrs. Melvin Freebie
• Petticoat Junction1963 · as Florabelle Campbell
• Burke's Law1963 · as Ethel Kronkeit
• Burke's Law1963 · as Candy Sturdevant
• The Greatest Show on Earth1963 · as T.T. Hill
• Vacation Playhouse1963 · as Miss Zilke
• The Lucy Show1962 · as Joan Brenner
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Virginian1962 · as Rosanna Dobie
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Dolly Marlowe
• My Three Sons1960 · as Harriet Blanchard
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show1960 · as Helene Terry
• The Untouchables1959 · as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall
• Adventures in Paradise1959 · as Millicent Brass
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Phyllis Britt
• Bonanza1959 · as Lillian Manfred
• The Real McCoys1957 · as Aunt Win
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self
• Playwrights '561955
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Rose Kelsey
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Joan Preston
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Calamity Jane
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as May
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• Suspense1949 · as Clara
• Studio One1948 · as Ruth Breen
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self