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Birthdate: August 30, 1906
Death date: December 25, 1979
Joan Blondell
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
4.0000
55
1940s
2.7360
14
1950s
2.2111
6
1960s
1.7395
8
1970s
2.2277
8
1980s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8138
2.8138
Joan Blondell Movie Rankings
1
3.3429Based on Betty Smith’s 1943 novel, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, is the story of a brave young girl named Francie Nolan and her family’s struggle to survive on pennies a day when her father unexpectedly dies . ...more about Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Not Available on DVD
2
3.2578After a world wind summer fling, bad boy Greaser, Danny, spends his senior year trying to impress the Australian girl-next-door, Sandy, Danny must walk a fine line to get the girl without ruining his reputation. ...more about Grease
DVD from $8.26
(15 sellers)
3
3.0706Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. ...more about Public Enemy
DVD from $6.16
(13 sellers)
4
3.0086
Chester Kent produces Musical Comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies aera he changes to producing short musical proluges for movies. But this is stressing him, because he always needs new units and his rival is always stealing his ideas. ...more about Footlight Parade
DVD from $41.37
(9 sellers)
5
2.9290
The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. ...more about Desk Set
DVD from $9.27
(10 sellers)
6
2.9102
Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside phony mentalist Zeena and her alcoholic husband Pete, working the crowd as Zeena pretends to read their minds. ...more about Nightmare Alley
DVD from $6.59
(10 sellers)
7
2.8079
In New Orleans, an up-and-coming poker player takes on a long-time master of the game. Not only is there a small fortune at stake, but also the status of being the top player. But the trusted dealer has been blackmailed into rigging the game. ...more about Cincinnati Kid
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $4.79
(16 sellers)
8
2.7688
At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his charms. However, Bert soon enlists Ann as partner in his new profession of con man. ...more about Blonde Crazy
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.7487
Barneny Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. ...more about Gold Diggers of 1933
DVD from $41.37
(9 sellers)
11
2.7230
In this spoof of the TV advertising industry, Rockwell Hunter is the low man on the totem pole at the advertising company where he works. ...more about Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
DVD from $31.99
(9 sellers)
14
2.5935
The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently does a favor for gangster Nicky. ...more about I've Got Your Number
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.5935
Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. ...more about King and the Chorus Girl
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.5661
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. ...more about Lawyer Man
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.5433
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Buggs" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent. ...more about Bullets or Ballots
DVD from $5.86
(12 sellers)
19
2.5083
Atterbury Dodd is an efficiency expert who believes everything can be reduced to mathematics. He is sent to Hollywood to see whether Colossal Pictures is a good investment. He soon learns that movie production doesn't fit his formulaic mindset. ...more about Stand-In
DVD from $11.01
(6 sellers)
20
2.5022
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more decisions than his wife ever well. ...more about Office Wife
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.4565
Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. ...more about Crowd Roars
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.4565
Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non existant, but actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that, but the way he fails ...more about Make Me a Star
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.4550
Multi millinaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campain against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members od his morale-boosting campain. ...more about Dames
DVD from $41.37
(9 sellers)
25
2.4382
Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where his cousin Gibbony introduces him to chorus girl Vida for whom he falls. ...more about Big City Blues
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.4328
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, a beautiful young woman who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. ...more about Topper Returns
DVD from $3.48
(8 sellers)
28
2.3926
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. ...more about Back in Circulation
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.3652
The Ames Company makes every effort to keep Uncle Cedric away from any decisions or work. This is in the best interests for him and the company. ...more about Colleen
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.3104
After being apart for years three women, friends at school, meet and bring each other up to date on their lives. Mary has been in reform school and is an entertainer. Vivian is married to an attorney and has a son she idolizes. Ruth works as a secretary. ...more about Three on a Match
DVD from $9.38
(5 sellers)
32
2.2965
Billy Flynn, an ex box champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J. over which he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven years ago. T.J. ...more about Champ
DVD from $4.50
(14 sellers)
34
2.2373
Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell), a wealthy but untalented performer who is starring only because she is backing the show. ...more about Stage Struck
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.1819
A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress. ...more about Opening Night
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $19.99
(10 sellers)
36
2.1552
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, but something much more sinister is going on. ...more about Night Nurse
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.0775
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. ...more about Cry 'Havoc'
- Not Available on DVD
38
2.0730
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. ...more about We're in the Money
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.9825
James Garner plays a ladies' man who ends up on the run from a conquest. He has an embarrassing problem that requires a doctor, but that is not immediately disclosed. ...more about Support Your Local Gunfighter
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
40
1.9816
Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. ...more about Gold Diggers of 1937
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.9620
Two angels, Charles and Arthur, are sent down to retrieve a young girl who has selected the couple she wishes to be borne to but who are so involved in their theatrical lives that procreation doesn't get a look in. ...more about For Heaven's Sake
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.9542
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. ...more about Miss Pinkerton
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.7259
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder. ...more about Lady for a Night
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.6816
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can. ...more about Angel Baby
- Not Available on DVD
52
College graduate Claire McIntyre plans to conquer the business world, while her dropout boyfriend Johnny takes his swing band to Paris. Eventually, Claire catches the eye (in more ways than one) of ad executive Robert Clayton. ...more about Big Business Girl
- Not Available on DVD
53
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. ...more about Big Daddy
- Not Available on DVD
54
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Not Available on DVD
57
Rick and Dot, two penniless New Yorkers, meet and fall in love in Central Park. Promising to meet later, they separate. ...more about Central Park
- Not Available on DVD
58
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. ...more about Christmas Eve
- Not Available on DVD
60
When a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop. ...more about Corpse Came C.O.D.
- Not Available on DVD
63
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. ...more about Famous Ferguson Case
- Not Available on DVD
64
Sam Kellough is a modern-day bounty hunter in Los Angeles who decides to track down Victor Hale, a vicious, heavy-set ex-convict with a $20,000 bounty on his head, who is killing former prison guards with a leather-laced steel glove in revenge for them ...more about Glove
- Not Available on DVD
65
Contemporary Casanova Toto loves beautiful women and pursues them shamelessly. Then he falls in love with respectable Mary and realizes that to win her he must stop his philandering. ...more about God's Gift to Women
- Not Available on DVD
68
Surprisingly sophisticated comedy for 1932, this film starring Joan Blondell highlights a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies that keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. ...more about Greeks Had a Word for Them
- Not Available on DVD
69
Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to "dig gold" among the millionaires. Posing as rich widows, they prepare to fleece wealthy Deacon Jones, but his penniless son Bob catches Mae's eye. ...more about Havana Widows
- Not Available on DVD
70
Flicker Hayes informs the police after he sets up two men to be caught in a phony robbery attempt, because they were responsible for his going to prison. ...more about He Was Her Man
- Not Available on DVD
72
Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy their love. ...more about Illicit
- Not Available on DVD
73
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. ...more about Kansas City Princess
- Not Available on DVD
76
Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes to a Dr. Wright who hypnotizes her. ...more about Lizzie
- Not Available on DVD
77
Eight directors and eighteen former Wampas stars act as judges in choosing 1941's crop of future stars, several of whom were never seen again. Reviewers at the time agreed that Joan Leslie was the most promising of the lot. ...more about Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars
- Not Available on DVD
79
Blondell and O'Brien star as newspaper reporters who inadvertently send Jordan to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket the boy was a spotter for. ...more about Off the Record
- Not Available on DVD
82
Buffalo hunter Jonahs Trapp returns to claim the woman he left behind-10 years ago. On his way into town he is robbed of his fortune, and there are several suspects Trapp will have to investigate. One of them is his estranged wife's suitor. ...more about Ride Beyond Vengeance
DVD from $7.12
(5 sellers)
83
Ma Delano (LaVerne) runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney & Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp.) Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up. ...more about Sinners' Holiday
- Not Available on DVD
84
Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. ...more about Smarty
- Not Available on DVD
85
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. ...more about Sons o' Guns
- Not Available on DVD
88
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. ...more about Three Girls About Town
- Not Available on DVD
89
Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. ...more about Two Girls on Broadway
- Not Available on DVD
92
In 1924 Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress, but the dog, that followed her becomes the star. But Hollywood has its own rules of sucess. ...more about Won Ton Ton
- Not Available on DVD
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