10.0
10.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
Also known as: Rose Joan Blondell, Rose Joan Bluestein, Joan Bluestein...
Acting
Nationality:United States
Education:University of North Texas, Professional Children's School, Santa Monica High School
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, establishing herself as a Pre-Code staple of Warner Bros. Pictures in wisecracking, sexy roles, appearing in more than 100 films and television productions. She was described as a "brassy blonde with a heart of gold." Blondell was most active in film during the 1930s and early 1940s, and during that time co-starred with Glenda Farrell, a colleague and close friend, in nine films. Blondell continued acting on film and television for the rest of her life, often in small, supporting roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Blue Veil (1951). In 1958, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Farrow in The Rope Dancers. Near the end of her life, Blondell was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Opening Night (1977). She was featured in two more films, the blockbuster musical Grease (1978) and Franco Zeffirelli's The Champ (1979), which was released shortly before her death from leukemia.
Filmography (122 movies)
8.5
8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self
7.6
7.6
Opening Night
1977
as Sarah Goode
7.5
7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Aunt Sissy
7.4
7.4
Grease
1978
as Vi
7.2
7.2
The Public Enemy
1931
as Mamie
7.2
7.2
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
as Carol
7.1
7.1
Nightmare Alley
1947
as Zeena Krumbein
7.1
7.1
East Side of Heaven
1939
as Mary Wilson
7.0
7.0
The Champ
1979
as Dolly Kenyon
7.0
7.0
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Jenny Swanson
7.0
7.0
Blonde Crazy
1931
as Anne Roberts
7.0
7.0
Breakdowns of 1939
1939
as Self
7.0
7.0
Winner Take All
1975
as Beverly Craig
7.0
7.0
The Reckless Hour
1931
as Allen Crane
7.0
7.0
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
as Lady Fingers
6.9
6.9
Desk Set
1957
as Peg Costello
6.9
6.9
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
as Self (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
For Heaven's Sake
1950
as Daphne Peters
6.9
6.9
Lizzie
1957
as Aunt Morgan
6.8
6.8
Footlight Parade
1933
as Nan Prescott
6.7
6.7
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957
as Violet
6.7
6.7
Night Nurse
1931
as Maloney
6.6
6.6
The Blue Veil
1951
as Annie Rawlins
6.6
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
as Lee Morgan
6.6
6.6
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
as Molly Mahoney
6.6
6.6
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
as Jenny
6.5
6.5
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
6.4
6.4
Dames
1934
as Mabel Anderson
6.4
6.4
Topper Returns
1941
as Gail Richards
6.3
6.3
Stand-In
1937
as Lester Plum
6.3
6.3
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
as Grace
6.2
6.2
Three on a Match
1932
as Mary Keaton
6.2
6.2
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
as Maizie Dickson
6.2
6.2
Adventure
1945
as Helen Melohn
6.2
6.2
He Was Her Man
1934
as Rose Lawrence
6.2
6.2
Three Men on a Horse
1936
as Mabel
6.2
6.2
Winchester '73
1967
as Larouge
6.1
6.1
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Off the Record
1939
as Jane Morgan
6.0
6.0
Angel Baby
1961
as Mollie Hays
6.0
6.0
I've Got Your Number
1934
as Marie Lawson
6.0
6.0
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931
as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
The Kid from Kokomo
1939
as Doris Harvey
6.0
6.0
Just Around the Corner
1933
as Mrs. Graham
6.0
6.0
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
as Marjorie Mossrock
6.0
6.0
Talent Scout
1937
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Big Business Girl
1931
as Pearl
6.0
6.0
And She Learned About Dames
1934
as Herself
5.9
5.9
The Dead Don't Die
1975
as Levenia
5.9
5.9
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966
as Mrs. Lavender
5.9
5.9
The Crowd Roars
1932
as Anne Scott
5.8
5.8
Lawyer Man
1932
as Olga Michaels
5.8
5.8
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
as Maxine Carroll
5.8
5.8
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
as Norma Perry
5.8
5.8
Havana Widows
1933
as Mae Knight
5.8
5.8
Sinners' Holiday
1930
as Myrtle
5.8
5.8
There's Always a Woman
1938
as Sally Reardon
5.8
5.8
Blondie Johnson
1933
as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
5.8
5.8
Union Depot
1932
as Ruth Collins
5.7
5.7
Waterhole #3
1967
as Lavinia
5.7
5.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
5.7
5.7
Miss Pinkerton
1932
as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
5.7
5.7
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
as Rosemary Durant
5.7
5.7
The Perfect Specimen
1937
as Mona Carter
5.6
5.6
Illicit
1931
as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
5.6
5.6
This Could Be the Night
1957
as Crystal St. Clair
5.5
5.5
Other Men's Women
1931
as Marie
5.5
5.5
Make Me a Star
1932
as 'Flips' Montague
5.5
5.5
Traveling Saleslady
1935
as Angela Twitchell
5.5
5.5
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
as Miss Dorothy Ellis
5.5
5.5
We're in the Money
1935
as Ginger Stewart
5.4
5.4
Broadway Gondolier
1935
as Alice Hughes
5.3
5.3
Colleen
1936
as Minnie Hawkins
5.3
5.3
Stay Away, Joe
1968
as Glenda Callahan
5.3
5.3
Three Girls About Town
1941
as Hope Banner
5.3
5.3
Big City Blues
1932
as Vida Fleet
5.3
5.3
Back in Circulation
1937
as 'Timmy' Blake
5.2
5.2
Central Park
1932
as Dot
5.2
5.2
The Opposite Sex
1956
as Edith Potter
5.2
5.2
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
as Schatzi Sutro
5.2
5.2
Lady for a Night
1942
as Jenny Blake
5.1
5.1
Christmas Eve
1947
as Ann Nelson
5.0
5.0
Millie
1931
as Angie
5.0
5.0
Model Wife
1941
as Joan Keating Chambers
5.0
5.0
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
as Self
5.0
5.0
Advance to the Rear
1964
as Easy Jenny
5.0
5.0
One And One Is One
1936
as Herself
4.9
4.9
The Glove
1979
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
4.9
4.9
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
2006
as Self (archive footage)
4.7
4.7
Death at Love House
1976
as Marcella Geffenhart
4.7
4.7
The Office Wife
1930
as Katharine Murdock
4.6
4.6
Broadway Bad
1933
as Tony Landers
4.6
4.6
Goodbye Again
1933
as Anne Rogers
4.5
4.5
God's Gift to Women
1931
as Fifi
4.5
4.5
The Baron
1977
as Mama Lou
4.3
4.3
Smarty
1934
as Vicki
4.3
4.3
Sons o' Guns
1936
as Yvonne
4.3
4.3
Kansas City Princess
1934
as Rosie Sturges
4.1
4.1
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Landlady
4.0
4.0
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
as Gloria Fay
4.0
4.0
Stage Struck
1936
as Peggy Revere
4.0
4.0
Hollywood Newsreel
1934
as Self
3.3
3.3
My Past
1931
as Marian Moore
3.2
3.2
The Phynx
1970
as Ruby
3.0
3.0
Convention City
1933
as Nancy Lorraine
2.9
2.9
Kona Coast
1968
as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
2.7
2.7
The Woman Inside
1981
as Aunt Coll
2.6
2.6
Broadway's Like That
1930
as Ruth's Pal
A Marriage of Strangers
1959
as Mrs. Patrick
The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
1965
as Self
Child of Trouble
1957
as Helen Green
Battered
1978
as Edna Thompson
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Parade
1930
I Want a Divorce
1940
as Geraldine Brokaw
The Rebels
1979
as Mrs. Brumple
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Big Daddy
1969
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
The Heart Breaker
1930
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