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Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

Highest Rated: 100% Footlight Parade (1933)

Lowest Rated: 14% Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1975)

Birthday: Aug 30, 1906

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Unconventionally beautiful, gifted performer who appeared in over 80 films while maintaining a successful stage career. Blondell played a number of leads, secondary leads and, later, character parts, often as brassy but warm-hearted types; among her best known films are "Golddiggers of 1933" (1933), "Nightmare Alley" (1947) and "The Cincinatti Kid" (1965). She was married to cinematographer George Barnes (1933-35), actor Dick Powell (1936-45) and producer Mike Todd (1947-50).

Highest rated movies

100% Desk Set
100% Gold Diggers of 1933
100% Footlight Parade
100% The Public Enemy
96% Opening Night
94% A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
89% Topper Returns
88% Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Photos

BLONDE CRAZY, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, 1931 THE BLUE VEIL, from left: Joan Blondell, Warner Anderson, 1951 DAMES, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, 1934 FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, Joan Blondell, 1950, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS, Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, 1939 GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS, Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, 1939 I WANT A DIVORCE, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, on-set, 1940 THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL, Fernand Gravet, Joan Blondell, 1937 THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL, Fernand Gravet, Joan Blondell, 1937 THE OFFICE WIFE, from left: Joan Blondell, Dorothy MacKaill, 1930 THE OPPOSITE SEX, from left, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Blondell, chatting on-set, 1956 THE PERFECT SPECIMEN, Joan Blondell, Errol Flynn, 1937 TOPPER RETURNS, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Joan Blondell, 1941 TOPPER RETURNS, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, 1941 TOPPER RETURNS, Joan Blondell, 1941 TWO GIRLS ON BROADWAY, from left, George Murphy, Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, 1940 TOPPER RETURNS, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, 1941 THE PERFECT SPECIMEN, from left: Joan Blondell, Errol Flynn, 1937 THE PERFECT SPECIMEN, from left: Joan Blondell, Errol Flynn, 1937 THE PERFECT SPECIMEN, from left: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, 1937
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Woman Inside Aunt Coll (Character) - 1981
40% 82% The Champ Dolly Kenyon (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Battered Edna Thompson (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 17% The Glove Mrs. Fitzgerald (Character) - 1978
66% 87% Grease Vi (Character) $305.3K 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Baron Mama Lou (Character) - 1977
96% 90% Opening Night Sarah Goode (Character) $10.5K 1977
No Score Yet 36% Death at Love House Marcella Geffenhart (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Winner Take All Beverly Craig (Character) - 1975
14% 60% Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Landlady (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 40% The Dead Don't Die Levenia (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Comedies Unknown (Character) - 1974
62% 61% Support Your Local Gunfighter Jenny (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 23% The Phynx Ruby (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Big Daddy Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anatomy of a Crime Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 12% Kona Coast Kittibelle Lightfoot (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 41% Stay Away, Joe Glenda Callahan (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 56% Waterhole No. 3 Lavinia (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 83% Winchester '73 Larouge (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 32% Ride Beyond Vengeance Mrs. Lavender (Character) - 1966
86% 78% The Cincinnati Kid Lady Fingers (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 47% Advance to the Rear Easy Jenny (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 22% Angel Baby Mollie Hays (Character) - 1961
100% 83% Desk Set Peg Costello (Character) - 1957
88% 75% Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Violet (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 45% This Could Be the Night Crystal St. Clair (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 54% Lizzie Aunt Morgan (Character) - 1957
40% 46% The Opposite Sex Edith (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 67% The Blue Veil Annie Rawlins (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Heaven's Sake Daphne Peters (Character) - 1950
88% 86% Nightmare Alley Zeena Krumbein (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 45% Christmas Eve Ann Nelson (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Corpse Came C.O.D. Rosemary Durant (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don Juan Quilligan Marjorie Mossrock (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 68% Adventure Helen Melohn (Character) - 1945
94% 90% A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Sissy Edwards (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 50% Cry Havoc Grace (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 40% Lady for a Night Jenny Blake (Character) - 1942
89% 81% Topper Returns Gail Richards (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 80% Three Girls About Town Hope Banner (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Model Wife Joan Keating Chambers (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 12% Two Girls on Broadway Molly Mahoney (Character) - 1940
75% No Score Yet I Want a Divorce Geraldine "Jerry" Brokaw (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 70% East Side of Heaven Mary Wilson (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Amazing Mr. Williams Maxine Carroll (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Off the Record Jane Morgan (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good Girls Go to Paris Jenny Swanson (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kid From Kokomo Doris Harvey (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 42% There's Always a Woman Sally Reardon (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 20% There's That Woman Again Unknown (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet The King and the Chorus Girl Miss Dorothy Ellis (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Back in Circulation `'Timmy'` Blake (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Specimen Mona Carter (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 68% Stand-In Lester Plum (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 0% Colleen Minnie Hawkins (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 24% Gold Diggers of 1937 Norma Perry (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 57% Three Men on a Horse Mabel (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 67% Bullets or Ballots Lee Morgan (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sons O' Guns Jimmy Canfield (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stage Struck Peggy Revere (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 0% Traveling Saleslady Angela Twitchell (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miss Pacific Fleet Gloria Fay (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet We're in the Money Ginger Stewart (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Broadway Gondolier Alice Hughes (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got Your Number Marie Lawson (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 12% Smarty Vicki (Character) - 1934
60% 64% Dames Mabel Anderson (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 10% He Was Her Man Rose Lawrence (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 40% Kansas City Princess Rosie Sturges (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 67% Blondie Johnson Blondie Johnson (Character) - 1933
100% 86% Gold Diggers of 1933 Carol King (Character) - 1933
100% 83% Footlight Parade Nan Prescott (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Havana Widows Mae Knight (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Broadway Bad Tony Landers (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Goodbye Again Anne Rogers (Character) - 1933
86% No Score Yet Convention City Unknown (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Central Park Dot (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 48% Lawyer Man Olga Michaels (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 20% Miss Pinkerton Nurse Adams aka Miss Pinkerton (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Broadway Girls Schatzi Sutro (Character) - 1932
83% 48% The Crowd Roars Anne Scott (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 42% Make Me a Star 'Flips' Montague (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 64% Union Depot Ruth Collins (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Big City Blues Vida Fleet (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Famous Ferguson Case Maizie Dickson (Character) - 1932
83% 72% Three on a Match Mary Keaton (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 46% Other Men's Women Marie (Character) - 1931
100% 85% The Public Enemy Mamie (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 40% Big Business Girl Pearl (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 73% Blonde Crazy Anne Roberts (Character) - 1931
82% 74% Night Nurse B. Maloney (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet God's Gift to Women Fifi (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 25% Millie Angie Wickerstaff (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Past Marion Moore (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 52% Illicit Helen `'Duckie'` Childers (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Reckless Hour Myrtle Nichols (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sinner's Holiday Myrtle (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Office Wife Katherine Murdock (Character) - 1930

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starsky and Hutch Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1950 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Snoop Sisters Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The New Dick Van Dyke Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rookies Unknown (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet McCloud Ernestine White (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here Come the Brides Lottie Hatfield (Character) 1968-1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Girl Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Petticoat Junction Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Guns of Will Sonnett Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Affair Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
10% No Score Yet The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Three Sons Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Phyllis Britt (Character) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Rosanna Dobie (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untouchables Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States Steel Hour Ellen (Character) 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Suspense Unknown (Character) 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of Tomorrow Unknown (Character) 1952