Joan Blondell
Birthday: 1906-08-30
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. 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 for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979), released shortly before her death from leukemia.
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The Cincinnati Kid
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time mast...
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Grease
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedl...
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Blondie Johnson
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...
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Gold Diggers of 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...
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Desk Set
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research st...
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Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...
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Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly...
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Footlight Parade
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when ...
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Lady for a Night
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into h...
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The Dead Don't Die
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himsel...
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair ...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a stu...
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Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...
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The Opposite Sex
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair w...
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants hi...
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East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul...
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Broadway Gondolier
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job....
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Topper Returns
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally m...
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The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he...
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Stay Away, Joe
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his fathe...
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The Glove
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wea...
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Nightmare Alley
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle ...
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Night Nurse
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh...
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Cry 'Havoc'
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A ...
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Gold Diggers of 1937
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go...
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Christmas Eve
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administe...
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The Office Wife
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's ...
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Two Girls on Broadway
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se...
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Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo...
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This Could Be the Night
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a ...
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For Heaven's Sake
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their ch...
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Illicit
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, be...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following e...
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The Kid from Kokomo
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston...
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The Crowd Roars
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discoverin...
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Angel Baby
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and ...
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Big Business Girl
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfrie...
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Colleen
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...
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Lawyer Man
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York ...
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The Rebels
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English n...
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Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...
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Kona Coast
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise....
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The Blue Veil
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse....
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The Perfect Specimen
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wic...
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Three Men on a Horse
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers....
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film....
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Millie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags h...
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Lizzie
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth....
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Big City Blues
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfrien...
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We're in the Money
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, b...
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Advance to the Rear
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his ap...
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the b...
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Sons o' Guns
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t...
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Stand-In
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financial...
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The King and the Chorus Girl
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl....
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The Reckless Hour
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to dete...
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Make Me a Star
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. ...
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There's Always a Woman
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, ...
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The Phynx
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania ...
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Miss Pacific Fleet
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss ...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
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Sinners' Holiday
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story inv...
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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He Was Her Man
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for hi...
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Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled ...
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Miss Pinkerton
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by h...
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Stage Struck
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi...
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Just Around the Corner
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's ho...
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Smarty
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being...
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Kansas City Princess
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie...
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My Past
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one....
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Goodbye Again
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious h...
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Off the Record
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go ...
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Don Juan Quilligan
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he find...
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I've Got Your Number
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes....
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Other Men's Women
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the oth...
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Broadway Bad
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a...
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Convention City
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Presid...
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God's Gift to Women
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor th...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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A Marriage of Strangers
Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn th...
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The Spy in the Green Hat
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the sce...
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Broadway's Like That
A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband al...
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Back in Circulation
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival paper...
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The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
A promotional short for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) showcasing the card handling skills of magician an...
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Winchester '73
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con ...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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Kilroy
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Be...
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The Baron
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borr...
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on h...
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The Champ
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drink...
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Ride Beyond Vengeance
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against...
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Hollywood Newsreel
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winn...
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals....
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Waterhole #3
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in...
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Winner Take All
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling....
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One And One Is One
These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances...
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The Voice of Hollywood
The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Land...
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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Death at Love House
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the lo...
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The Woman Inside
A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970s....
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....
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Battered
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marr...
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And She Learned About Dames
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Cla...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots....
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Big Daddy
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. ...
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s....
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Dick Powell and Joan Blondell from around ...
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, featuring footage of Dick Powell and Joan Blo...
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Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and a young chi...
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