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Joan Blondell 08.30.1906 - 12.25.1979 (73 years old)

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
jerry lester show, the	jerry wants joan blondell as his leading lady
shell chateau	guest lee wiley	1935-07-13
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (112) the gold diggers	1936-12-21
chase and sanborn hour, the	guests joan blondell and rodgers and hart	1937-06-13
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (149) she loves me not	1937-11-08
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (200) perfect specimen	1939-01-02
federal theater special	federal theater special	1939-06-26
chase and sanborn hour, the	guest joan blondell	1939-08-13
chase and sanborn hour, the	guest lansing hatfield	1939-12-10
campbell playhouse	only angels have wings	1940-02-25
i want a divorce	june and perry	1941-04-04
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (308) model wife	1941-05-19
miss pinkerton incorporated	the first case	1941-07-12
command performance	command performance (047) joan blondell, roy rogers, connie haines	1943-01-10
command performance	command performance (049) bob hope, lena horne, ginny simms	1943-01-23
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (380) this gun for hire	1943-01-25
command performance	command performance (067) joan blondell, dick powell, martha tilton	1943-05-15
G I Journal	gi journal (098) guest joan blondell	1945-06-08
edgar bergen and charlie mccarthy	joan blondell	1945-09-16
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (501) destry rides again (rehearsal)	1945-11-04
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (500) destry rides again	1945-11-05
theater of romance	next time we love	1946-03-12
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (528) deadline at dawn	1946-05-20
screen guild theater, the	hired wife	1946-08-19
studio one	so big	1947-12-30
screen directors playhouse, the	next time we love	1951-03-29

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The dreamy and delightful Joan Blondell was born 109 years ago today, and thank goodness she was!

Jim

A wonderful lady and actress.

Leonard

One of the greatest actresses. Period. What she did with little would have been daunting to many so-called "great actresses ". She is so touching as Aunt Cissy in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

Linda

Lovely and talented actress. Loved her in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in her TV series Here Comes the Brides and too many others to mention here. Beautiful lady

Patricia

She was my childhood idol, which should explain a lot to anyone who wonders why I’m such a smart aleck.

Barbara

Great Actress & Comedian who can sing and Dance.

Paul

Love Joan Blondell...wonderful actress

Steve

Blondell, Joan (Rose Joan Blondell) Born in New York City 8/30/1909; died 12/25/1979 of leukemia in Santa Monica, California. Daughter of Eddie Blondell (the original Katzenjammer Kid). Sister of look-a-like actress Gloria Blondell. Married and divorced to photographer George Barnes (1932-1936), actor Dick Powell (1936-1944), Mike Todd (1947-50). Screen debut in Sinner's Holiday (1930). Made 53 movies between 1930 and 1939. Last movie was The Champ (1979). Female leading roles on I Want A Divorce for Mutual-Radio (1940-1941). Mary Vance on Miss Pinkerton, Inc. for NBC-Radio (1941). Winifred Jordan on The Real McCoys for CBS-TV (1963). Lottie Hatfield on Here Comes The Brides for ABC-TV (1968-1970). Peggy Revere on Banyon for NBC-TV (1972-1973).

Jack

I've recently started watching a lot of her films. Man, I was missing out before! Great versatile actress

Holly

Remembering one of the true gems of the pre-code era (and beyond) the amazing, inimitable, one and only Joan Blondell on her birthday, August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979

Paul

Joan Blondell have Enormous eyes. Beautiful. I first knew her from '70s "Here Come the Brides", no idea she'd been a Hollywood attraction for decades. The cast of "Partridge Family" thought Shirley was cool, but had no idea she was an Oscar winning actress. My sister only knew Barbara Stanwyck from "The Big Valley" and thought she was wooden and stolid. Now she knows otherwise...

Robert

Gorgeous and so talented in those earliest movies. Heavenly.

David

Happy Birthday to Joan Blondell

Mike

Love Joan Blondell's face and beautiful smile.

Maryann

She was beautiful, talented, sassy, and awfully funny.

Scott

She's great! Just saw her and Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley...good noir film

Ruth

She is just the most gorgeous creature God ever made.

Josh

One of the greatest and most unappreciated actresses ever. She could light up a room

Lewis

She always brighten all the movies she'd play in one if my favorites actresses love her in topper

Johanna

She was so terrific! Loved her madly in everything, but she was super fab in Golddiggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade!

Janet

Blondell (1906 – 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for half a century. A lovable star with a vivacious personality, mesmerizing smile, and big blue eyes, 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.

Jack

In 1927, while closing the library she worked at, she was raped by a police officer. He told her he would kill her if she told anyone. She kept her silence for decades, until finally telling her grown daughter. She went public with this in her memoirs.

Jack

Joan 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.

Jack

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 in major film roles for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles.

Jack

My fave of all the "Gold Diggers" (have the poster!)--- agree about "My Forgotten Man." It ends the movie on a very somber note, but I love that she speaks it so movingly (she couldn't really sing so wonderful idea) and then it's sung so beautifully by Etta Moten.....I sing with them, with tears.

Susan

When I was a wee lad, in the fall of 1968, I was watching the network show Here Come the Brides and my dad asked, "Did you know that Joan Blondell, the lady playing saloon owner Lottie Hatfield, was one of the biggest sex symbols in the movies back in the 1930s?" I confessed that I did not know that then. I know that now....and how!

Charlie

She was terrific! Most beautiful woman of all time.

Wayne

JOAN BLONDELL (1906 ~ 1979) Blondell appeared in a whopping 54 films during the 1930s, ten of them in 1931 alone. She excelled at both comedy and drama, but was best known as a wisecracking, good natured blonde. The best of those films included: "The Public Enemy" (1931) with James Cagney, "Night Nurse" (31) co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clark Gable, "Blonde Crazy" (31) opposite Cagney, "Union Depot" (32) with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., "The Crowd Roars" (32) again with Cagney, "Miss Pinkerton" (32) with George Brent, "Three On A Match" (32) with Bette Davis and Ann Dvorak, "Gold Diggers Of 1933" (33) with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, "Footlight Parade" (33) with Cagney, Powell and Keeler, "Dames" (34) with Keeler and Powell, "Gold Diggers Of 1937" (37) with Powell and "East Side Of Heaven" (39) opposite Bing Crosby.

Clark

Joan's career slowed down in the 1940s, only appearing in 13 films, the best of them being: "Topper Returns" (1941), "Cry Havoc" (43) opposite Margaret Sullavan and Ann Sothern, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" (45) and "Nightmare Alley" (47) co-starring Tyrone Power. She was Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actress for "The Blue Veil" (51) starring Jane Wyman and was memorable in "The Opposite Sex" (56), "Desk Set" (57) and "The Cincinnati Kid" (65). One of her last screen appearances was in "Grease" (78).

Clark

Blondell's second husband was Dick Powell (from 1936 to 1944) and her third husband was producer Mike Todd (from 1947 to 1950). Joan passed in 1979 at age 73.

Clark