Joan Blondell
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A lovable star with a vivacious personality, mesmerizing smile, and big blue eyes, Joan Blondell, the daughter of stage comic Eddie Blondell (one of the original Katzenjammer Kids), spent her childhood touring the world with her vaudevillian parents and appearing with them in shows. She joined a stock company at age 17, then came to New York after winning a Miss Dallas beauty contest. She then appeared in several Broadway productions and in the Ziegfield Follies before being paired with another unknown, actor James Cagney, in the stage musical Penny Arcade; a year later this became the film Sinners Holiday, propelling her to stardom. Blondell spent eight years under contract with Warner Bros., where she was cast as dizzy blondes and wisecracking gold-diggers. She generally appeared in comedies and musicals and was paired ten times on the screen with actor Dick Powell, to whom she was married from 1936-45. Through the '30s and '40s she continued to play cynical, wisecracking girls with hearts of gold appearing in as many as ten films a year during the '30s. In the '50s she left films for the stage, but then came back to do more mature character parts. Blondell is the author of a roman a clef novel titled Center Door Fancy (1972) and was also married to producer Mike Todd (1947-50).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Perfect Specimen |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Union Depot |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Woman Inside |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Glove |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Rebels |
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— | 1979 |
38% | The Champ |
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— | 1979 |
76% | Grease |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Battered |
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— | 1978 |
96% | Opening Night |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Baron |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Death at Love House |
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— | 1976 |
15% | Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Dead Don't Die |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Winner Take All |
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— | 1975 |
62% | Support Your Local Gunfighter |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | The Phynx |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Kona Coast |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Stay Away, Joe |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Waterhole No. 3 |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Winchester '73 |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Ride Beyond Vengeance |
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— | 1966 |
86% | The Cincinnati Kid |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Advance to the Rear |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Angel Baby |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Lizzie |
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— | 1958 |
100% | Desk Set |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | This Could Be the Night |
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— | 1957 |
86% | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? |
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— | 1957 |
38% | The Amazing Colossal Man |
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— | 1957 |
33% | The Opposite Sex |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Blue Veil |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | For Heaven's Sake |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Christmas Eve |
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— | 1947 |
87% | Nightmare Alley |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Adventure |
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— | 1945 |
94% | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Cry Havoc |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Lady for a Night |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Three Girls About Town |
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— | 1941 |
89% | Topper Returns |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Brother Orchid |
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— | 1940 |
75% | I Want a Divorce |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Two Girls on Broadway |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | East Side of Heaven |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | There's Always a Woman |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | The Last Gangster |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Stand-In |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The King and the Chorus Girl |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Gold Diggers of 1937 |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Back in Circulation |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The Perfect Specimen |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Three Men on a Horse |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Bullets or Ballots |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Colleen |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Traveling Saleslady |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Kansas City Princess |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | He Was Her Man |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Smarty |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | I've Got Your Number |
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— | 1934 |
60% | Dames |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Havana Widows |
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— | 1933 |
100% | Footlight Parade |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Goodbye Again |
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— | 1933 |
100% | Gold Diggers of 1933 |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Blondie Johnson |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Lawyer Man |
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— | 1933 |
86% | Convention City |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Three on a Match |
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— | 1932 |
No Score Yet | Miss Pinkerton |
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— | 1932 |
No Score Yet | Make Me a Star |
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— | 1932 |
No Score Yet | The Greeks Had a Word for Them (Three Broadway Girls) |
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— | 1932 |
83% | The Crowd Roars |
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— | 1932 |
No Score Yet | Three Broadway Girls |
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— | 1932 |
82% | Night Nurse |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Big Business Girl |
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— | 1931 |
100% | The Public Enemy |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | God's Gift to Women |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Illicit |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Millie |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Other Men's Women |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Blonde Crazy |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | My Past |
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— | 1931 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Fantasy Island
1978-1984
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No Score Yet |
The Love Boat
1977-1986
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No Score Yet |
Starsky & Hutch
1975-1979
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100% |
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964-1968
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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Quotes from Joan Blondell's Characters
Aunt Morgan: | "Why, you're acting just like a slut." |
Elizabeth Richmond: | "That's because I AM a slut!" |
Lester Plum: | Yeah, but most of the finder-outters get their list of items from the screwer-uppers. |