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Joan Blondell. Actress: Grease. With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, Joan Blondell was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl who was the lead's best friend. Joan was born Rose Blondell in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Katie and Eddie Blondell, who were vaudeville performers.
Jun 1, 2014 · Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born the child of vaudevillians, she was on stage by age three.
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Born on August 30, 1906, in New York, New York; died of leukemia on December 25, 1979, in Santa Monica, California; daughter and one of three children of Eddie (a stage comedian, one of the original Katzenjammer Kids) and Kathryn (Cain) Blondell (a vaudeville performer); sister of Gloria Blondell , who also appeared in film and television; atten...
Blondell began her career in vaudeville. 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.
Dec 26, 1979 · SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 25 (AP) —Joan Blondell, the movie and television actress, died of leukemia today. She was 70 years old and had been hospitalized for several weeks. At her bedside...
A beautiful and accomplished stage and screen actress, Blondell was born on August 30, 1906 (some accounts say 1909), on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The daughter of vaudeville comics Eddie and Kathryn Blondell, she got whatever schooling she could in whatever city her parents happened to be performing.
Joan Blondell: A Life between Takesis the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudevill...
