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  1. Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) [a] was an American actress [3] who performed in film and television for 50 years. 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 ...

  2. 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. Her father was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and her mother was of Irish heritage. Joan was on ...

    • August 30, 1906
    • December 25, 1979
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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. Her father was a Polish Jewish immigrant ...

    • January 1, 1
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • Santa Monica, California, USA
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  5. Blondell, Joan (1906–1979)American actress. 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 Source for information on ...

  6. 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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    • Matthew Kennedy
    • $20.17
    • University Press of Mississippi
  7. Jan 15, 2008 · In his third major biography of a worthy but nearly forgotten figure, Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes, Matthew Kennedy makes a persuasive case for Blondell’s natural talent as an actress, and details the hard times of her life with sympathy. Blondell was literally born in a trunk to vaudevillian parents, and was in their act as a toddler.

  8. Joan Blondell was a beautiful and talented actress whose career spanned over forty years She was born Rose Joan Blondell on August 30, 1906, in New York City. Her parents were vaudeville entertainers and she began performing with them when she was just a toddler. Their troupe was known as the Bouncing Blondells.

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