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Acting

Joan Blondell

Career: Active from 1930 to 1981, busiest in 1931 and 1932 with 10 main titles each.

Leading roles: 68
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Gold Diggers of 1933
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 89 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joan Blondell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Psychological
4.3, average 5.5
Scare
1.4, average 2.6
Violence
3.0, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 10
Character Study 6
Social Commentary 6
Romantic Comedy 6
Nostalgic 5
Classic Film 4
Romantic Drama 3
Classic Gangster Film 3
Character-Driven 3
Screwball Comedy 3
Fast-Paced 3
Pre-Code Era 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

148

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1980s

2 titles

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

The Woman Inside

as Aunt Coll

1970s

24 titles · average score 58

The Champ

48

as Dolly Kenyon

The Rebels

82

TV show · as Mrs. Brumple

Grease

71

as Vi

Fantasy Island

43

TV show · as Naomi Gittings

Opening Night

81

as Sarah Goode

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Ramona Bevans

Death at Love House

43

as Marcella Geffenhart

The Dead Don't Die

51

as Levenia

Starsky & Hutch

78

TV show · as Mrs. Pruitt

Banyon

TV show · as Peggy Revere

Support Your Local Gunfighter

63

as Jenny

McCloud

71

TV show

1960s

31 titles · average score 59

Love, American Style

43

TV show

Stay Away, Joe

47

as Glenda Callahan

Here Come the Brides

72

TV show · as Lottie Hatfield

Kona Coast

39

as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

Waterhole #3

59

as Lavinia

Ride Beyond Vengeance

51

as Mrs. Lavender

The Cincinnati Kid

75

as Lady Fingers

Advance to the Rear

52

as Easy Jenny

Petticoat Junction

43

TV show · as Florabelle Campbell

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Rosanna Dobie

Angel Baby

52

as Mollie Hays

My Three Sons

78

TV show · as Harriet Blanchard

1950s

19 titles · average score 68

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Phyllis Britt

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Lillian Manfred

The Untouchables

53

TV show · as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall

A Marriage of Strangers

as Mrs. Patrick

Adventures in Paradise

71

TV show · as Millicent Brass

Lizzie

66

as Aunt Morgan

Desk Set

87

as Peg Costello

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

79

as Violet

This Could Be the Night

58

as Crystal St. Clair

The Real McCoys

45

TV show · as Aunt Win

The Blue Veil

67

as Annie Rawlins

For Heaven's Sake

67

as Daphne Peters

1940s

15 titles · average score 65

Nightmare Alley

79

as Zeena Krumbein

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

63

as Rosemary Durant

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

88

as Aunt Sissy

Adventure

64

as Helen Melohn

Don Juan Quilligan

as Marjorie Mossrock

Cry 'Havoc'

61

as Grace

Lady for a Night

51

as Jenny Blake

Topper Returns

79

as Gail Richards

Model Wife

as Joan Keating Chambers

Three Girls About Town

70

as Hope Banner

Two Girls on Broadway

50

as Molly Mahoney

I Want a Divorce

as Geraldine Brokaw

1930s

57 titles · average score 60

The Amazing Mr. Williams

63

as Maxine Carroll

Bullets or Ballots

67

as Lee Morgan

Dames

63

as Mabel Anderson

He Was Her Man

45

as Rose Lawrence

Footlight Parade

81

as Nan

Blondie Johnson

65

as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

Gold Diggers of 1933

89

as Carol

Convention City

as Nancy Lorraine

Three on a Match

62

as Mary Keaton

Make Me a Star

57

as 'Flips' Montague

Blonde Crazy

71

as Anne Roberts

Night Nurse

76

as Maloney