Joan Blondell - biography

“I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is.  It’s more than talent and beauty.  Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you.”

“In the 20s, you were a face.  And that was enough.  In the 30s, you also had to be a voice.  And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.”

Joan Blondell has appeared in the following films:
Broadway’s Like That (1930)
Sinners’ Holiday (1930)
The Office Wife (1930)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
God’s Gift to Women (1931)
Illicit (1931)
Night Nurse (1931)
Other Men’s Women (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Big Business Girl (1931)
Millie (1931)
My Past (1931)
The Reckless Hour (1931)
Big City Blues (1932)
Lawyer Man (1932)
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
The Crowd Roars (1932)
Union Depot (1932)
Central Park (1932)
Make Me a Star (1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
Broadway Bad (1933)
Convention City (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Goodbye Again (1933)
Just Around the Corner (1933)
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Havana Widows (1933)
Dames (1934)
He Was Her Man (1934)
Hit Me Again (1934)
I’ve Got Your Number (1934)
The Kansas Princess (1934)
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
We’re in the Money (1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Colleen (1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Stage Struck (1936)
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
Sons o’ Guns (1936)
Stand-In (1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
Back in Circulation (1937)
There’s Always a Woman (1938)
East Side of Heaven (1939)
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Off the Record (1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
I Want a Divorce (1940)
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
Model Wife (1941)
Three Girls About Town (1941)
Topper Returns (1941)
Lady for a Night (1942)
Cry ’Havoc’ (1943)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Adventure (1945)
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Christmas Eve (1947)
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
For Heaven’s Sake (1950)
The Blue Veil (1951)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Desk Set (1957)
This Could Be the Night (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Lizzie (1957)
Angel Baby (1961)
Advance to the Rear (1964)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
Waterhole Three (1967)
Kona Coast (1968)
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
Big Daddy (1969)
The Phynx (1970)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Opening Night (1977)
The Baron (1977)
Grease (1978)
The Champ (1979)
The Glove (1979)
The Woman Inside (1981)