Joan Blondell (1906-1979) was nominated for two Emmys on HERE COME THE BRIDES.

Here she is in 1968, as stunning as ever. 💕

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For the birthday of Joan Blondell (#BOTD 1906), here is a fascinating 1964 interview where she reminisces about her days at Warner Brothers, compares that era with 1960s television, and more.

“Miss Blondell has one ambition which she has kept secret, confiding only to her dogs. ‘I'd give my shirt to direct,’ she says, finally coming out with it. ‘Of course, I'm going to have to grow a beard to do it. What chance does a woman director have?’”

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Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell in “We’re In the Money” (1935)

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Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern — in costume for “Cry Havoc” (1943)

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Joan Blondell and Roland Young in the great comedy “Topper Returns” (1941)

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Joan Blondell and Roland Young in the great comedy “Topper Returns” (1941)

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Happy Mothers’ Day!

Joan Blondell and her daughter Ellen Powell with a pug, March 1957

📸: Los Angeles Public Library

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91 years ago:
The Famous Ferguson Case (US)
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in ge...
1932-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/123292
#TheFamousFergusonCase #LloydBacon #JoanBlondell #TomBrown #PreCode #Film

92 years ago:
God's Gift to Women (US)
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
1931-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/96771
#GodsGifttoWomen #MichaelCurtiz #JoanBlondell #AlanMowbray #YoladAvril #PreCode #Film

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in “Gold Diggers of 1937” (1936)

#OldHollywood #Musicals #GoldDiggersOf1937 #DickPowell #JoanBlondell

66 years ago:
Lizzie (US)
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
1957-04-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/116780
#Lizzie #EleanorParker #RichardBoone #JoanBlondell #ClassicFilm

88 years ago:
Traveling Saleslady (US)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champ...
1935-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/188001
#TravelingSaleslady #JoanBlondell #GlendaFarrell #ClassicFilm

86 years ago:
The King and the Chorus Girl (US)
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
1937-03-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190073
#TheKingandtheChorusGirl #MervynLeRoy #JoanBlondell #JaneWyman #Film

“Joan Blondell's ferocious watch-dog will get you if you don't watch out! Joan takes little Cup Cake along to the studio to guard her while she's working among all the big, bad men in scenes for a new film.” — Screenland, June 1934

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Joan Blondell and Dick Powell on the cover of Hollywood magazine, Aug. 1939 — “Moving Day with the Dick Powells”

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55 years ago:
Stay Away, Joe (US)
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc...
1968-03-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49776
#StayAwayJoe #ElvisPresley #BurgessMeredith #JoanBlondell #MGM #Western #ClassicFilm

Joan Blondell, like around the time of “Nightmare Alley” (1947)

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78 years ago:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (US)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Fran...
1945-02-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30177
#ATreeGrowsinBrooklyn #EliaKazan #DorothyMcGuire #JoanBlondell #LloydNolan #DorothySpencer #Movies

Millie, a very good 1931 RKO romantic melodrama with plenty of wit and humour early on. It covers 17 years in a woman's life.

This is definitely a pre-code movie critical of the rigidity of traditional sexual morality.

Helen Twelvetrees is good in the lead role and gets great support from Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/millie-1931.html

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92 years ago:
Illicit (US)
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
1931-02-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/121020
#Illicit #ArchieMayo #BarbaraStanwyck #JoanBlondell #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film