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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 30, 1906
Died
December 25, 1979
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Rose Joan Blondell
- Джоан Блонделл
- Rosebud Blondell
Joan Blondell
1.1 Popularity
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
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
6.9
Self (archive footage)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
8.5
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
4.9
Self (archive footage)
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
10.0
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
2.7
Aunt Coll
The Woman Inside
1981
4.9
Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Glove
1979
Credits
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
as Self (archive footage)
2009
0.0
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
as Self (archive footage)
2008
6.9
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
2008
8.5
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
as Self (archive footage)
2006
4.9
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1991
5.7
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
1990
0.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
The Woman Inside
as Aunt Coll
1981
2.7
The Glove
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
1979
4.9
The Champ
as Dolly Kenyon
1979
7.0
The Rebels
as Mrs. Brumple
1979
0.0
🎬
$weepstake$
as Mme. Grimaldi
1979
0.0
Battered
as Edna Thompson
1978
0.0
Grease
as Vi
1978
7.4
Opening Night
as Sarah Goode
1977
7.6
The Love Boat
as Ramona Bevans
1977
6.3
The Baron
as Mama Lou
1977
4.5
Death at Love House
as Marcella Geffenhart
1976
4.7
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Landlady
1976
4.1
Starsky & Hutch
as Mrs. Pruitt
1975
7.3
Switch
as Mrs. Lear
1975
6.7
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Winner Take All
as Beverly Craig
1975
7.0
The Dead Don't Die
as Levenia
1975
5.9
The Snoop Sisters
as Madame Mimi
1973
7.2
Police Story
1973
6.9
Banyon
as Peggy Revere
1972
7.0
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
as Aunt Louise
1971
4.0
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Jenny
1971
6.6
The Phynx
as Ruby
1970
3.2
McCloud
1970
7.1
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
Medical Center
as Doris
1969
6.1
Big Daddy
1969
0.0
Here Come the Brides
as Lottie Hatfield
1968
6.3
The Name of the Game
as Miss Wall
1968
6.8
The Outsider
as Sadie Burch
1968
5.2
Kona Coast
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
1968
2.9
Stay Away, Joe
as Glenda Callahan
1968
5.3
Waterhole #3
as Lavinia
1967
5.8
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Miss Lottie
1967
6.2
Winchester '73
as Larouge
1967
6.4
The Spy in the Green Hat
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
1967
6.6
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Madame
1966
6.6
Family Affair
1966
6.7
That Girl
1966
6.1
🎬
Summer Fun
1966
0.0
Ride Beyond Vengeance
as Mrs. Lavender
1966
5.9
The Cincinnati Kid
as Lady Fingers
1965
7.0
Kilroy
as Rose Kelsey
1965
0.0
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
as Self
1965
0.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
1964
7.1
Advance to the Rear
as Easy Jenny
1964
5.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Mrs. Melvin Freebie
1963
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Florabelle Campbell
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Ethel Kronkeit
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Candy Sturdevant
1963
6.0
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
as T.T. Hill
1963
5.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Miss Zilke
1963
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Lucy Show
as Joan Brenner
1962
7.0
The Virginian
as Rosanna Dobie
1962
6.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Dr. Kildare
as Dolly Marlowe
1961
5.5
Angel Baby
as Mollie Hays
1961
6.0
My Three Sons
as Harriet Blanchard
1960
6.5
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Helene Terry
1960
6.2
The Untouchables
as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall
1959
7.8
Adventures in Paradise
as Millicent Brass
1959
5.7
The Twilight Zone
as Phyllis Britt
1959
8.5
Bonanza
as Lillian Manfred
1959
7.5
A Marriage of Strangers
as Mrs. Patrick
1959
0.0
The Real McCoys
as Aunt Win
1957
5.6
Desk Set
as Peg Costello
1957
7.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
as Violet
1957
6.7
This Could Be the Night
as Crystal St. Clair
1957
5.6
Child of Trouble
as Helen Green
1957
0.0
Lizzie
as Aunt Morgan
1957
6.9
The Opposite Sex
as Edith Potter
1956
5.2
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Rose Kelsey
1954
7.8
General Electric Theater
as Joan Preston
1953
6.4
The Blue Veil
as Annie Rawlins
1951
6.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Calamity Jane
1951
7.2
For Heaven's Sake
as Daphne Peters
1950
6.9
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as May
1950
6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Suspense
as Clara
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Ruth Breen
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Christmas Eve
as Ann Nelson
1947
5.1
Nightmare Alley
as Zeena Krumbein
1947
7.2
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Rosemary Durant
1947
5.7
Adventure
as Helen Melohn
1945
6.2
Don Juan Quilligan
as Marjorie Mossrock
1945
6.0
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Aunt Sissy
1945
7.5
Cry 'Havoc'
as Grace
1943
6.3
Lady for a Night
as Jenny Blake
1942
5.2
Three Girls About Town
as Hope Banner
1941
5.3
Model Wife
as Joan Keating Chambers
1941
5.0
Topper Returns
as Gail Richards
1941
6.4
I Want a Divorce
as Geraldine Brokaw
1940
0.0
Two Girls on Broadway
as Molly Mahoney
1940
6.6
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
1939
7.0
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Maxine Carroll
1939
5.8
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Jenny Swanson
1939
7.0
The Kid from Kokomo
as Doris Harvey
1939
6.0
East Side of Heaven
as Mary Wilson
1939
7.1
Off the Record
as Jane Morgan
1939
6.0
There's Always a Woman
as Sally Reardon
1938
5.8
Stand-In
as Lester Plum
1937
6.3
The Perfect Specimen
as Mona Carter
1937
5.7
Back in Circulation
as 'Timmy' Blake
1937
5.3
Talent Scout
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
1937
6.0
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
1937
5.5
Gold Diggers of 1937
as Norma Perry
1936
5.8
Three Men on a Horse
as Mabel
1936
6.2
Stage Struck
as Peggy Revere
1936
4.0
Bullets or Ballots
as Lee Morgan
1936
6.6
Sons o' Guns
as Yvonne
1936
4.3
Colleen
as Minnie Hawkins
1936
5.3
One And One Is One
as Herself
1936
5.0
🎬
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
1936
0.0
🎬
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
1936
0.0
🎬
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
1936
0.0
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Gloria Fay
1935
4.0
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
We're in the Money
as Ginger Stewart
1935
5.5
Broadway Gondolier
as Alice Hughes
1935
5.4
🎬
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
0.0
Traveling Saleslady
as Angela Twitchell
1935
5.5
Kansas City Princess
as Rosie Sturges
1934
4.3
Dames
as Mabel Anderson
1934
6.4
He Was Her Man
as Rose Lawrence
1934
6.2
Smarty
as Vicki
1934
4.3
And She Learned About Dames
as Herself
1934
6.0
🎬
Hollywood Newsreel
as Self
1934
4.0
I've Got Your Number
as Marie Lawson
1934
6.0
Convention City
as Nancy Lorraine
1933
3.0
Havana Widows
as Mae Knight
1933
5.8
Footlight Parade
as Nan Prescott
1933
6.8
Goodbye Again
as Anne Rogers
1933
4.6
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Carol
1933
7.2
Blondie Johnson
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
1933
5.8
Broadway Bad
as Tony Landers
1933
4.6
Just Around the Corner
as Mrs. Graham
1933
6.0
Lawyer Man
as Olga Michaels
1932
5.8
Central Park
as Dot
1932
5.2
Three on a Match
as Mary Keaton
1932
6.2
Big City Blues
as Vida Fleet
1932
5.3
Make Me a Star
as 'Flips' Montague
1932
5.5
Miss Pinkerton
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
1932
5.7
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Maizie Dickson
1932
6.2
The Crowd Roars
as Anne Scott
1932
5.9
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Schatzi Sutro
1932
5.2
Union Depot
as Ruth Collins
1932
5.8
Blonde Crazy
as Anne Roberts
1931
7.0
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
1931
6.0
The Reckless Hour
as Allen Crane
1931
7.0
Night Nurse
as Maloney
1931
6.7
Big Business Girl
as Pearl
1931
6.0
My Past
as Marian Moore
1931
3.3
The Public Enemy
as Mamie
1931
7.2
God's Gift to Women
as Fifi
1931
4.5
Illicit
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
1931
5.6
Millie
as Angie
1931
5.1
Other Men's Women
as Marie
1931
5.5
Sinners' Holiday
as Myrtle
1930
5.8
🎬
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
0.0
The Office Wife
as Katharine Murdock
1930
4.7
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as Self
1930
3.4
🎬
The Heart Breaker
1930
0.0
🎬
The Devil's Parade
1930
0.0
Broadway's Like That
as Ruth's Pal
1930
2.6