Joan Blondell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

173

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-08-30

Deathday

1979-12-25 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

  • Rose Joan Blondell
  • Джоан Блонделл
  • Rosebud Blondell

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.

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Known For

Grease
7.4%

Grease

Jul 7, 1978

The Twilight Zone
8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

Bonanza
7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

The Public Enemy
7.3%

The Public Enemy

Apr 23, 1931

The Cincinnati Kid
7.0%

The Cincinnati Kid

Oct 15, 1965

Opening Night
7.6%

Opening Night

Dec 22, 1977

Nightmare Alley
7.1%

Nightmare Alley

Oct 9, 1947

The Champ
7.0%

The Champ

Jul 7, 1979

The Love Boat
6.3%

The Love Boat

Sep 24, 1977

Starsky & Hutch
7.2%

Starsky & Hutch

Sep 10, 1975

Gold Diggers of 1933
7.2%

Gold Diggers of 1933

May 27, 1933

The Untouchables
7.9%

The Untouchables

Oct 15, 1959

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Acting

2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression as Self (archive)
2008
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film as Self (archive footage)
2008
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self
2006
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound as Self (archive footage)
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
1979
Sweepstakes
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
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Landlady
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
The Dead Don't Die as Levenia
1973
The Snoop Sisters as Madame Mimi
1973
Police Story
1972
Banyon as Peggy Revere
1972
The Rookies
1971
The New Dick Van Dyke Show as Aunt Louise
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter as Jenny
1970
The Phynx as Ruby
1970
McCloud
1969
Love, American Style
1969
Medical Center as Doris
1969
Big Daddy
1968
Here Come the Brides
1968
The Name of the Game as Miss Wall
1968
The Outsider
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 as Miss Lottie
1967
Winchester '73 as Larouge
1967
The Spy in the Green Hat as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
Family Affair
1966
That Girl
1966
Summer Fun
1966
Ride Beyond Vengeance as Mrs. Lavender
1965
The Cincinnati Kid as Lady Fingers
1965
Kilroy as Rose Kelsey
1965
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle as Self
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
1964
Advance to the Rear as Easy Jenny
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Mrs. Melvin Freebie
1963
Petticoat Junction as Florabelle Campbell
1963
Burke's Law as Ethel Kronkeit
1963
Burke's Law as Candy Sturdevant
1963
The Greatest Show on Earth as T.T. Hill
1963
Vacation Playhouse as Miss Zilke
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962
The Lucy Show as Joan Brenner
1962
The Virginian as Rosanna Dobie
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961
Dr. Kildare as Dolly Marlowe
1961
Angel Baby as Mollie Hays
1960
My Three Sons as Harriet Blanchard
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Helene Terry
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
A Marriage of Strangers as Mrs. Patrick
1957
The Real McCoys as Aunt Win
1957
Desk Set as Peg Costello
1957
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? as Violet
1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957
This Could Be the Night as Crystal St. Clair
1957
Lizzie as Aunt Morgan
1956
The Opposite Sex as Edith Potter
1955
Playwrights '56
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney as Rose Kelsey
1953
General Electric Theater as Joan Preston
1951
The Blue Veil as Annie Rawlins
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Calamity Jane
1950
For Heaven's Sake as Daphne Peters
1950
Lux Video Theatre as May
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950
What's My Line? as Self
1949
Suspense as Clara
1948
Studio One as Ruth Breen
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
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
Breakdowns of 1939 as Self
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
Three Men on a Horse as Mabel
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
One And One Is One as Herself
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet as Gloria Fay
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
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
And She Learned About Dames as Herself
1934
Hollywood Newsreel as Self
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
1933
Just Around the Corner as Mrs. Graham
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
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
The Greeks Had a Word for Them as Schatzi Sutro
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
Big Business Girl as Pearl
1931
My Past as Marian Moore
1931
The Public Enemy as Mamie
1931
God's Gift to Women as Fifi
1931
Illicit as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
1931
Millie as Angie
1931
Other Men's Women as Marie
1930
Sinners' Holiday as Myrtle
1930
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
The Office Wife as Katharine Murdock
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
1930
The Heart Breaker
1930
The Devil's Parade
1930
Broadway's Like That as Ruth's Pal
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