Blondell received two consecutive Emmy nominations for outstanding continued performance by an actress in a dramatic series for her role as Lottie Hatfield. Noah Beery Jr., was cast as Abel.[16]. 1950). [15] In 1937, she starred opposite Errol Flynn in The Perfect Specimen. "The Street Was Mine": White Masculinity And Urban Space In Hardboiled Fiction And Film Noir. The Heart Breaker (1930) Broadway’s Like That (1930) The Devil’s Parade (1930) The Office Wife (1930) Sinners’ Holiday (1930) Other Men’s Women (1931) Millie; Illicit (1931) God’s Gift to Women (1931) The Public Enemy (1931) In 1964, she appeared in the episode "What's in the Box?" In 1948, she left the screen for three years and concentrated on theater, performing in summer stock and touring with Cole Porter's musical, Something for the Boys. 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. August 30, 1906 – Joan Blondell: “In the 20s, you were a face. Also in 1963, Blondell was cast as the widowed Lucy Tutaine in the episode, "The Train and Lucy Tutaine", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. On July 5, 1947, Blondell married producer Mike Todd. Blondell and Powell were divorced on July 14, 1944. They had a daughter, Ellen Powell, who became a studio hair stylist, and Powell adopted her son by her previous marriage under the name Norman Scott Powell. Find this Pin and more on Joan Blondell - 1 by Dawn McKiness. Her other films include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Nightmare Alley, and The Opposite . Spouse(s) Blondell continued acting on film and television for the rest of her life, often in small, supporting roles. She made her first appearance on stage at the age of four months when she was carried on in a cradle as the daughter of Peggy Astaire in The Greatest Love. She was featured in two more films, the blockbuster musical Grease (1978) and Franco Zeffirelli's The Champ (1979), which was released shortly before her death from leukemia. Her family comprised a vaudeville troupe, the Bouncing Blondells.[9]. He has nominated for an Academy Awards, two Golden Globes Awards and two Emmy Awards. She is portrayed by the late Joan Blondell, and by Didi Conn in "Grease Live" (AKA The original performer of Frenchy ). In the story line, Lucy sues a railroad company, against great odds, for causing the death of her cow. Her stirring rendition of "Remember My Forgotten Man" in the Busby Berkeley production of Gold Diggers of 1933, in which she co-starred with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, became an anthem for the frustrations of unemployed people and the government's failed economic policies. [7] He was also a heavy spender who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling (high-stakes bridge was one of his weaknesses) and went through a controversial bankruptcy during their marriage. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 25 (AP) —Joan Blondell, the movie and television actress, died of leukemia today. Establishing herself as a sexy, wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Bros. pictures, and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. Joan's younger sister, Gloria Blondell, also an actress, was briefly married to film producer Albert R. Broccoli. Co-starring Oscar-winner Karl Malden ("Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront"), Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Rip Torn ("The Larry Sanders Show," "Men in Black"), and Oscar-nominees Joan Blondell ("Grease") and Tuesday Weld ("Looking for Mr. Goodbar"). The series was replaced midseason. 1944)Mike Todd (m. 1947; div. Is portrayed by Kathy Bates in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). The Love Boat. And it’s no surprise that she became such a star, with her show biz upbringing. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. [5][6][7][8] Blondell's mother was Catherine (known as "Kathryn" or "Katie") Caine, born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York (later Brooklyn, New York City) on April 13, 1884, to Irish-American parents. 1906 – 1979. by Alyssa Gallin Steinberg. Leukemia. Vi is a waitress at the Frosty Palace (possibly the owner). He then sold the rights to Warner Bros., with the proviso that Blondell and Cagney be cast in the film version, named Sinners' Holiday (1930). Joan is at her adorable best in the film, despite the fact that she had recently suffered a stroke and been diagnosed with leukemia. Actor 162 Credits. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. She left Warner Bros. in 1939. This was a 1930s period action drama starring Robert Forster in the title role. Blondell. John Cassavetes cast her as a cynical, aging playwright in his film Opening Night (1977). Posted on January 20, 2021 Updated on January 20, 2021. She was 70 years old and had been hospitalized for several weeks. In 1971, she followed Sada Thompson in the off-Broadway hit The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, with a young Swoosie Kurtz playing one of her daughters.[17]. Her parents were vaudeville entertainers and she began performing with them when she was a toddler. Grease (1978) was one of her last screen appearances. Paramount also scanned the original camera negative for a completely new remastered picture. Rose Joan Blondell was born in New York to a vaudeville family; she gave her birthdate as August 30, 1909. 1944)Mike Todd (m. 1947; div. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.”. Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for half a century. Joan Blondell, Actress: Grease. These Pre-Code movies bring the hard-working actress of the Great Depression to our current one. If you have any additional information about Blondell’s life while living in Denton and attending NTSTC, please contact the Moving Image Preservation Librarian, Laura Treat, at laura.treat@unt.edu. Joan had spent a year in Honolulu (1914–15)[10] and six years in Australia and had seen much of the world by the time her family stopped touring and settled in Dallas, Texas when she was a teenager. Available in a range of colours and styles for men, women, and everyone. Abbott, M. and Harper, P., 2000. In 1930, she starred with James Cagney in Penny Arcade on Broadway. Blondell was paired several more times with James Cagney in films, including The Public Enemy (1931) and Footlight Parade (1933), and was one-half of a gold-digging duo with Glenda Farrell in nine films. Joan Blondell was a native New Yorker was born into show-business in 1906. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon owner in the late 1960s television series Here Come the Brides, or a lively, fast-talking, … She began to appear in short subjects and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, Joan was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl who was the lead's best friend. Joan Blondell’s Pre-Code Filmography. [2] Her father, Levi Bluestein, a vaudeville comedian known as Ed Blondell,[3][4] was born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1866. For the diehard Blondell fans out there, see if you can identify Joan in one of her final acting appearances in Grease (1978). She received considerable acclaim for her performance as Lady Fingers in Norman Jewison's The Cincinnati Kid (1965), garnering a Golden Globe nomination and National Board of Review win for Best Supporting Actress. August 30, 1906Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Dick Powell (m. 1936; div. That same year, Blondell co-starred in all 52 episodes of the ABC Western series Here Come the Brides, set in the Pacific Northwest of the 19th century. 1950) Joan also had a brother, Ed Blondell, Jr. Joan's cradle was a property trunk as her parents moved from place to place. Joan Blondell was a beautiful and talented actress whose career spanned over forty years. Joan Blondell publicity shot, circa 1930. Director Randal Kleiser took numerous liberties with the original source material, most notably moving the setting from an urban Chicago setting as the original musical had been to a more suburban locale, reflecting his own teenage years at Radnor High School in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She guest-starred in the episode "You're All Right, Ivy" on Jack Palance's circus drama, The Greatest Show on Earth, which aired on ABC in the 1963–64 television season. : Joan Blondell (1906 – 1979)", Here Come the Brides - 'The Complete 2nd Season': Shout! She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). (1957). She attended Santa Monica High School, where she acted in school plays and edited the school yearbook. Springer, pp.23-24. Joan Blondell. Near the end of her life, Blondell was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in John Cassavetes's Opening Night (1977). Her parents were vaudevillian actors, and her first stage appearance … She performed in Grease as well as in The Blue Veil, a film for which she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Joan Blondell: A Fresh Dame. Andre Soares 9 years ago. [2] She was cremated and her ashes interred in a columbarium at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Around 1927, she returned to New York, worked as a fashion model, a circus hand, a clerk in a store, joined a stock company to become an actress, and performed on Broadway. She made one last bow in 1978’s Grease before passing away from leukemia in 1979. She was a regular on Here Come the Brides, and a guest star on shows like Starsky and Hutch, Fantasy Island, Bonanza and many… Her parents were traveling performers, carting the family around the world to put on spectacular shows. Blondell has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Dick Powell was represented as being very stingy. In 1965, she was in the running to replace Vivian Vance as Lucille Ball's sidekick on the hit CBS television comedy series The Lucy Show. Cause of death Her marriage to Todd was an emotional and financial disaster that ended in divorce in 1950. Joan Blondell – The Ultimate Dame. Birth Name: Birth Place: Profession Actor. Joan Blondell was one of those vaudevillians whose career spanned so long those of us growing up in the 1970s knew her entirely from contemporary entertainment, little dreaming of the four distinguished decades that preceded. [2] She played supporting roles in The Opposite Sex (1956), Desk Set (1957), and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Joan and George divorced in 1936. Aug 30, 2014 - Explore Olive Thomas's board "Joan Blondell" on Pinterest. She replaced Bea Benaderet, who was ill, for one episode on the CBS series Petticoat Junction. Public Enemy, The / White Heat. Blondell was widely seen in two films released not long before her death – Grease (1978), and the remake of The Champ (1979) with Jon Voight and Rick Schroder. Grease - Special Edition Box Set. Blondell continued working on television. 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The Love Boat (simply Love Boat in its final season) is an American comedy/drama television series set on luxury passenger cruise ship S.S. Pacific Princess, which aired on the ABC television network from 1977 to 1987; in addition, four three-hour long specials aired in 1986, 1987, and 1990. Joan Blondell Bio: From Pre-Code Movies to Oscar Nomination & ‘Grease’ + Troubled Marriages. George Barnes (m. 1933; div. 2, including Norman S. Powell Her paternal grandparents were both born in France. [11] While there, she gave her name as Rosebud Blondell,[12] and when she attended North Texas State Teacher's College (now the University of North Texas) in Denton in 1926–1927[13] where her mother was a local stage actress. Promotional portrait of actress Joan Blondell , wearing a pirate costume, for Warner Bros Studios, 1932. In that installment, Blondell played FloraBelle Campbell, a lady visitor to Hooterville, who had once dated Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) and Sam Drucker (Frank Cady). Saved from listal.com. Joan Blondell biography: A Life Between Takes. On September 19, 1936, she married Dick Powell, an actor, director, and singer. Blondell was less than friendly with Powell's next wife, June Allyson, although the two women would later appear together in The Opposite Sex (1956). Blondell continued acting in major film roles for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. https://grease.fandom.com/wiki/Joan_Blondell?oldid=10868. Few actresses, save maybe Miriam Hopkins or Kay Francis, are more closely associated with the era of pre-Code Hollywood than playful but tough-as-nails Joan Blondell. See more ideas about joan, actresses, movie stars. Died Using the name Rosebud Blondell, she won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant, was a finalist in an early version of the Miss Universe pageant in May 1926, and placed fourth for Miss America 1926 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September of that year. Occupation Near the end of her life, Blondell was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Opening Night (1977). Her students worked in Banyon's office, providing fresh faces for the show weekly. In 1968, she guest-starred on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, starring Brian Keith. Actress Joan Blondell , larking around wearing a swimsuit by … Joan Blondell. Blondell returned to Hollywood in 1950. Talk about a pro. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Blue Veil (1951). Joan. Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes by Matthew Kennedy is a must-read for fans of Blondell (obviously) but also lovers of the old Hollywood of yesteryear. Booze, bootleggers, and broads, you’ve just got to love Blondell in those pre-code films. Retrieved from " https://grease.fandom.com/wiki/Vi?oldid=12257 ". She was also featured prominently in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) and Nightmare Alley (1947). During her childhood she lived in Australia, Hawaaii, and California. [18] In December 2007, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted a retrospective of Blondell's films in connection with a new biography by film professor Matthew Kennedy, and theatrical revival houses such as Film Forum in Manhattan have also projected many of her films recently. During the Great Depression, Blondell was one of the highest-paid individuals in the United States. Image Credit: IMDb & Amazon Joan Blondell Joan Blondell. Actress Near the end of her life, Blondell was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in John Cassavetes's Opening Night (1977). She began her career in vaudeville. 1936)Dick Powell (m. 1936; div. And that was enough. Blondell received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Blondell was married three times, first to cinematographer George Barnes in a private wedding ceremony on January 4, 1933, at the First Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Years active 1978. An often-repeated myth is that Mike Todd left Blondell for Elizabeth Taylor, when in fact, she had left Todd of her own accord years before he met Taylor. Rose Joan Blondell (née Bluestein; August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress[1] who performed in film and television for half a century. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, establishing herself as a Pre-Code staple of Warner Bros. Pictures in wisecracking, sexy roles, appearing in more than 100 films and television productions. Rose Joan Blondell was born into a family of vaudeville performers on August 30, 1906. Biography. [2] She later reprised her role of Aunt Sissy in the musical version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for the national tour and played the nagging mother, Mae Peterson, in the national tour of Bye Bye Birdie. Grease Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Actors Joan Blondell and Dick Powell , sitting together on the hood of a car, for Columbia Pictures, circa 1936. [19], David Manners, Joan Blondell, Ina Claire, Madge Evans from The Greeks Had a Word for Them, 1932, David Manners, Madge Evans, Joan Blondell, Ina Claire from The Greeks Had a Word for Them, 1932, James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, and Joan Blondell in The Crowd Roars, 1932, Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, and James Cagney in The Crowd Roars, 1932, Gold Diggers of 1933 : Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, and Aline MacMahon, Publicity photograph of Blondell, c. 1930. Placed under contract by Warner Bros., she moved to Hollywood, where studio boss Jack L. Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes",[7]:34 but Blondell refused. Shop high-quality unique Joan Blondell T-Shirts designed and sold by artists. Occupation. 1927–1979 She also appeared in two films released after her death – The Glove (1979), and The Woman Inside (1981). Gloria Blondell's parents, Edward Joan "Ed" Blondell and Catherine "Katie" Caine, and her siblings, Edward Jr. and Joan, were all entertainers.She once said, "[S]ome member of my family has been in the theater ever since the time of Richard the Lionhearted." They had one child, Norman Scott Barnes, who became an accomplished producer, director, and television executive known as Norman Powell. She was born Rose Joan Blondell in New York City in 1906. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. [citation needed], Blondell died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California, on Christmas Day, 1979, with her children and her sister at her bedside. Family. Camera! [14] Penny Arcade lasted only three weeks, but Al Jolson saw it and bought the rights to the play for $20,000. She was born Rose Joan Blondell on August 30, 1906, in New York city. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Joan Blondell, Actress, Dies at 70; Often Played Wisecracking Blonde", "Blondell and Fennessy's hurricane of fun and frolic, The Katzenjammer Kids", "Lights! Joan is noticeably frail in Grease, yet that Blondell magic is still there. She featured in roles in two more films — Grease (1978) and The Champ (1979) — released shortly before her death from leukemia. [2] She was well received in her later films, despite being relegated to character and supporting roles after 1945, when she was billed below the title for the first time in 14 years in Adventure, which starred Clark Gable and Greer Garson. She wrote a novel titled Center Door Fancy (New York: Delacorte Press, 1972), which was a thinly disguised autobiography with veiled references to June Allyson and Dick Powell.[7]:10. She once accused him of holding her outside a hotel window by her ankles. By the end of the decade, she had made nearly 50 films. Posts about joan blondell written by The Hinoeuma. Joan Blondell is best known as a Movie Actress. In 1972, she had an ongoing supporting role in the NBC series Banyon as Peggy Revere, who operated a secretarial school in the same building as Banyon's detective agency. Her co-stars in the segment were Joe E. Brown and Buster Keaton. He's known for The Champ (1979), The Blue Veil (1951) and Grease (1978). She was most active in film during the 1930s and early 1940s, and during that time co-starred with Glenda Farrell, a colleague and close friend in nine films. Her performance in her next film, The Blue Veil (1951), earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Rose Joan BlondellAugust 30, 1906Manhattan, New York City, U.S. This is the version of Grease that everyone fell in love with in 1978 and for the first 20 years of TV and home video versions. Rose Joan Blondell (née Bluestein; August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for half a century. Grease earned almost $400 million worldwide on a budget of ... Dennis C. Stewart, who played Leo "Craterface" Balmudo, Cha Cha's boyfriend; Joan Blondell, also … Waitress (possible owner) at the Frosty Palace. He toured for many years starring in Blondell and Fennessy's stage version of The Katzenjammer Kids. Her star is located at 6311 Hollywood Boulevard. Daughter of Edward (1865-1943), born in the state of Indiana, and Katherine (née Cain) Blondell (1884-1952), born in the state of New York. She made one last bow in 1978’s Grease before passing away from leukemia in 1979. of The Twilight Zone. Children December 25, 1979 (aged 73)Santa Monica, California, U.S. Hans 2021 Movie Draft: Round Two-Pick Three-Grease 1978. She was born on August 30, 1906 in New York City, NY. Unfortunately, after filming her second guest appearance as Joan Brenner (Lucy's new friend from California), Blondell walked off the set right after the episode had completed filming when Ball humiliated her by harshly criticizing her performance in front of the studio audience and technicians. She featured in roles in two more films — Grease (1978) and The Champ (1979) — released shortly before her death from leukemia. From frisky pre-codes to a small supporting role in 1978’s Grease, there’s no denying Joan Blondell’s talent and screen presence. 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