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Joan Blondell
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Joan Blondell

1906 – 1979 · New York City, New York, USA · Active 1930–2009

Joan Blondell, born in 1906, was a quintessential figure in American cinema, known for her sharp wit and vibrant performances. In the 1970s, she appeared in The Baron (1977), where her seasoned presence added depth to the film's gritty narrative. She also took on a role in The Glove (1979), a film that reflects the exploitation genre's flair for combining action with a touch of camp. Blondell's career, which began in the pre-Code era, spanned decades, making her a vital part of the cult film conversation.

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The Glove

The Glove

1979 ★ 5.3
as Mrs. Fitzgerald

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

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Filmography

178 credits
2000s 5 credits
2008
Movie ★ 6.9
2006
Movie ★ 4.9
2003
Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.9
1990s 2 credits
1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.5
1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.0
1980s 2 credits
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
Movie ★ 9.0
1981
The Woman Inside as Aunt Coll
Movie ★ 4.3
1970s 24 credits
1979
The Glove as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Movie ★ 5.1
1979
The Champ as Dolly Kenyon
Movie ★ 7.0
1979
$weepstake$ as Mme. Grimaldi
TV
1979
The Rebels as Mrs. Brumple
TV ★ 10.0
1978
Grease as Vi
Movie ★ 7.4
1978
Battered as Edna Thompson
Movie ★ 9.0
1977
Opening Night as Sarah Goode
Movie ★ 7.6
1977
The Baron as Mama Lou
Movie ★ 5.6
1977
The Love Boat as Ramona Bevans
TV ★ 6.3
1976
Movie ★ 4.3
1976
Death at Love House as Marcella Geffenhart
Movie ★ 5.0
1975
Movie ★ 6.0
1975
Winner Take All as Beverly Craig
Movie ★ 7.4
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.3
1975
Switch as Mrs. Lear
TV ★ 6.7
1975
Starsky & Hutch as Mrs. Pruitt
TV ★ 7.3
1973
TV ★ 7.0
1973
The Snoop Sisters as Madame Mimi
TV ★ 7.5
1972
TV ★ 6.9
1972
Banyon as Peggy Revere
TV ★ 8.0
1971
Movie ★ 6.6
1971
TV ★ 5.2
1970
The Phynx as Ruby
Movie ★ 3.7
1970
TV ★ 7.2
1960s 36 credits
1969
Movie ★ 8.0
1969
TV ★ 6.4
1969
TV ★ 6.1
1968
Stay Away, Joe as Glenda Callahan
Movie ★ 5.5
1968
Kona Coast as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark
Movie ★ 3.3
1968
Here Come the Brides as Lottie Hatfield
TV ★ 7.1
1968
TV ★ 7.0
1968
The Outsider as Sadie Burch
TV ★ 6.0
1967
The Spy in the Green Hat as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
Movie ★ 6.6
1967
Winchester '73 as Larouge
Movie ★ 6.7
1967
Waterhole #3 as Lavinia
Movie ★ 5.9
1967
TV ★ 6.3
1966
Ride Beyond Vengeance as Mrs. Lavender
Movie ★ 6.0
1966
TV ★ 6.7
1966
TV ★ 6.9
1966
TV ★ 6.2
1966
TV
1965
The Cincinnati Kid as Lady Fingers
Movie ★ 7.0
1965
Kilroy as Rose Kelsey
Movie
1964
Advance to the Rear as Easy Jenny
Movie ★ 5.2
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto
TV ★ 7.1
1963
Burke's Law as Ethel Kronkeit
TV ★ 6.3
1963
Petticoat Junction as Florabelle Campbell
TV ★ 5.8
1963
Vacation Playhouse as Miss Zilke
TV ★ 8.0
1963
TV ★ 7.5
1963
Burke's Law as Candy Sturdevant
TV ★ 6.3
1963
TV ★ 5.9
1962
The Virginian as Rosanna Dobie
TV ★ 6.5
1962
The Lucy Show as Joan Brenner
TV ★ 7.1
1961
Angel Baby as Mollie Hays
Movie ★ 6.1
1961
Dr. Kildare as Dolly Marlowe
TV ★ 5.7
1961
TV ★ 5.8
1960
My Three Sons as Harriet Blanchard
TV ★ 6.6
1960
TV ★ 6.4
1950s 22 credits
1959
Movie
1959
The Twilight Zone as Phyllis Britt
TV ★ 8.5
1959
Adventures in Paradise as Millicent Brass
TV ★ 6.1
1959
Bonanza as Lillian Manfred
TV ★ 7.5
1959
The Untouchables as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall
TV ★ 7.9
1957
Desk Set as Peg Costello
Movie ★ 7.0
1957
Movie ★ 6.8
1957
This Could Be the Night as Crystal St. Clair
Movie ★ 6.1
1957
Lizzie as Aunt Morgan
Movie ★ 6.9
1957
Child of Trouble as Helen Green
Movie
1957
TV ★ 7.5
1957
The Real McCoys as Aunt Win
TV ★ 5.9
1956
The Opposite Sex as Edith Potter
Movie ★ 5.4
1955
TV ★ 6.3
1954
TV ★ 7.9
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1951
The Blue Veil as Annie Rawlins
Movie ★ 6.8
1951
TV ★ 7.2
1950
For Heaven's Sake as Daphne Peters
Movie ★ 7.0
1950
TV ★ 6.9
1950
TV ★ 6.7
1950
TV ★ 7.0
1940s 16 credits
1949
Suspense as Clara
TV ★ 5.1
1948
Studio One as Ruth Breen
TV ★ 5.4
1948
TV ★ 6.8
1947
Nightmare Alley as Zeena Krumbein
Movie ★ 7.2
1947
Christmas Eve as Ann Nelson
Movie ★ 5.4
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Rosemary Durant
Movie ★ 6.5
1945
Movie ★ 7.5
1945
Adventure as Helen Melohn
Movie ★ 6.4
1945
Don Juan Quilligan as Marjorie Mossrock
Movie ★ 7.0
1943
Cry 'Havoc' as Grace
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
Lady for a Night as Jenny Blake
Movie ★ 5.5
1941
Topper Returns as Gail Richards
Movie ★ 6.4
1941
Movie ★ 6.5
1941
Model Wife as Joan Keating Chambers
Movie ★ 6.5
1940
Two Girls on Broadway as Molly Mahoney
Movie ★ 7.0
1940
I Want a Divorce as Geraldine Brokaw
Movie ★ 10.0
1930s 71 credits
1939
East Side of Heaven as Mary Wilson
Movie ★ 7.4
1939
The Kid from Kokomo as Doris Harvey
Movie ★ 6.5
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris as Jenny Swanson
Movie ★ 7.1
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams as Maxine Carroll
Movie ★ 6.0
1939
Off the Record as Jane Morgan
Movie ★ 6.4
1939
Movie ★ 7.0
1938
There's Always a Woman as Sally Reardon
Movie ★ 6.0
1937
The Perfect Specimen as Mona Carter
Movie ★ 6.4
1937
Stand-In as Lester Plum
Movie ★ 6.5
1937
The King and the Chorus Girl as Miss Dorothy Ellis
Movie ★ 6.2
1937
Back in Circulation as 'Timmy' Blake
Movie ★ 6.5
1937
Talent Scout as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.7
1936
Bullets or Ballots as Lee Morgan
Movie ★ 6.6
1936
Gold Diggers of 1937 as Norma Perry
Movie ★ 6.1
1936
Colleen as Minnie Hawkins
Movie ★ 5.8
1936
Movie ★ 6.3
1936
Sons o' Guns as Yvonne
Movie ★ 5.3
1936
Stage Struck as Peggy Revere
Movie ★ 5.3
1936
Movie ★ 5.0
1935
Broadway Gondolier as Alice Hughes
Movie ★ 6.0
1935
We're in the Money as Ginger Stewart
Movie ★ 5.9
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet as Gloria Fay
Movie ★ 7.0
1935
Traveling Saleslady as Angela Twitchell
Movie ★ 6.1
1935
Movie ★ 5.0
1934
Dames as Mabel Anderson
Movie ★ 6.5
1934
He Was Her Man as Rose Lawrence
Movie ★ 6.5
1934
Smarty as Vicki
Movie ★ 4.6
1934
Kansas City Princess as Rosie Sturges
Movie ★ 4.9
1934
I've Got Your Number as Marie Lawson
Movie ★ 6.8
1934
Movie ★ 7.0
1934
Movie ★ 7.5
1933
Blondie Johnson as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Movie ★ 5.9
1933
Movie ★ 7.2
1933
Footlight Parade as Nan Prescott
Movie ★ 6.8
1933
Movie ★ 6.0
1933
Goodbye Again as Anne Rogers
Movie ★ 4.9
1933
Havana Widows as Mae Knight
Movie ★ 6.6
1933
Broadway Bad as Tony Landers
Movie ★ 5.3
1933
Convention City as Nancy Lorraine
Movie ★ 4.2
1932
Movie ★ 5.6
1932
Three on a Match as Mary Keaton
Movie ★ 6.3
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case as Maizie Dickson
Movie ★ 6.6
1932
The Crowd Roars as Anne Scott
Movie ★ 6.1
1932
Lawyer Man as Olga Michaels
Movie ★ 6.1
1932
Union Depot as Ruth Collins
Movie ★ 6.0
1932
Big City Blues as Vida Fleet
Movie ★ 5.8
1932
Make Me a Star as 'Flips' Montague
Movie ★ 6.4
1932
Movie ★ 5.8
1932
Miss Pinkerton as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
Movie ★ 5.9
1931
Blonde Crazy as Anne Roberts
Movie ★ 7.0
1931
Movie ★ 7.2
1931
Night Nurse as Maloney
Movie ★ 6.8
1931
Illicit as Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Movie ★ 5.7
1931
Movie ★ 6.8
1931
Millie as Angie
Movie ★ 5.3
1931
The Reckless Hour as Allen Crane
Movie ★ 7.0
1931
My Past as Marian Moore
Movie ★ 4.0
1931
Movie ★ 5.7
1931
Movie ★ 4.8
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.5
1930
The Office Wife as Katharine Murdock
Movie ★ 4.9
1930
Movie ★ 6.1
1930
Movie ★ 3.5
1930
Movie ★ 7.0
1930
Movie ★ 7.0