Joan Blondell
The Woman Inside (1981)
The Woman Inside is a 1981 drama film made by 20th Century Fox, and directed by Joseph Van Winkle who co-wrote screenplay with Steve Fisher (uncredited). This drama film portrays the actions of a tough, but mentally ill, Vietnam vet who wants to have a sex-change operation. Her aunt struggles to understand why she would want do such a thing. The fi...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Madge Evans
The Glove (1979)
The Glove is a 1979 action film directed by cult actor Ross Hagen and starring John Saxon. Saxon plays a bounty hunter who's given a large sum to track down a vicious ex-convict who has been murdering former prison guards with a large leather-laced steel glove. It was one of several action films Saxon appeared in following Enter the Dragon.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Adolphe Menjou•Clarence Kolb•ZaSu Pitts•Conrad Nagel•Ben Lyon•Laura La Plante•Edward Everett Horton•Dorothy Mackaill
The Phynx (1970)
The Phynx is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Lee H. Katzin about a rock and roll band named The Phynx and their mission in foreign affairs. The group is sent to Albania to locate celebrity hostages taken prisoner by Communists. Last part of the film, supposedly set in Albania, was filmed in Spanish city of Ávila, recognizable by its medieva...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•William Powell•Roland Young
Kona Coast (1968)
Kona Coast is a 1968 American drama film directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Richard Boone and Vera Miles.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Ricardo Cortez•Charles Ruggles
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
Stay Away, Joe is a 1968 American comedy western film with musical interludes, set in modern times and starring Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Katy Jurado and Joan Blondell. Directed by Peter Tewksbury, the film is based on the 1953 satirical farce novel of the same name by Dan Cushman. The film reached number 65 on the Variety weekly national bo...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Douglas Fairbanks Jr.•Clifton Webb•Robert Armstrong
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best. This quest leads him to challenge Lancey "The Man" Howard, an older player widely considered to be the best, culminating in a climactic fi...
Starring: Joe E. Brown•Roosevelt Grier•Joan Bennett•Stuart Erwin•Edward G. Robinson•Barbara Stanwyck•John Wayne•Frank McHugh
Angel Baby (1961)
Angel Baby is a 1961 American drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Salome Jens, George Hamilton and Mercedes McCambridge. It was Burt Reynolds' film debut.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Humphrey Bogart•James Cagney
Desk Set (1957)
Desk Set is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the 1955 play of the same name by William Marchant.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Grant Mitchell•Frank Fay•Joan Blondell•Leslie Howard
The Blue Veil (1951)
The Blue Veil is a 1951 American historical drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton and Joan Blondell. It tells the story of a woman who spends her life caring for other people’s children, beginning just after World War I. The title refers to the headdresses once worn by governesses and nannies, colored blu...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Eric Linden•Bette Davis
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
For Heaven's Sake is a 1950 fantasy film starring Clifton Webb as an angel trying to save the marriage of a couple played by Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings. It was adapted from the play May We Come In? by Harry Segall.
Starring: Ray Milland•Pat O'Brien•Roosevelt Grier•George Brent•George Raft
Christmas Eve (1947)
Christmas Eve is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin. It is based on the story by Laurence Stallings and Richard H. Landau and stars George Raft, George Brent and Randolph Scott. An independent production by Benedict Bogeaus it was distributed by United Artists. It was rereleased under the title Sinner's Holiday.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Wallace Ford•Randolph Scott
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
The Corpse Came C.O.D. is a 1947 American comedy-mystery film directed by Henry Levin, produced by Samuel Bischoff and starring George Brent and Joan Blondell. The comedic mystery is notable for featuring cameos by Hollywood gossip columnists appearing as themselves: Harrison Carroll, Jimmy Fidler, George Fisher, Hedda Hopper, Erskine Johnson, Loue...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Walter Catlett
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. Based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the same name, it stars Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker in supporting roles. Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that brought h...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Guy Kibbee•Charles Laughton
Adventure (1945)
Adventure is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Greer Garson. Based on the 1937 novel The Anointed by Clyde Brion Davis, the film is about a sailor who falls in love with a librarian. Adventure was Gable's first postwar film and the tagline repeated in the movie's famous trailer was "Gable's ...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Allen Jenkins•Victor Jory
Cry "Havoc" (1943)
Cry 'Havoc' is a 1943 American war drama film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Richard Thorpe. It stars Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern and Joan Blondell, and features Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines, Frances Gifford, Diana Lewis, Heather Angel, Dorothy Morris and Connie Gilchrist.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Ruby Keeler•William Gargan•Ann Sothern
Lady for a Night (1942)
Lady for a Night is a 1942 American drama film starring Joan Blondell and John Wayne. The World War II B-17 bomber the Memphis Belle is named after a steamboat in this film. It is also known as The Lady from New Orleans, Memphis Belle and Lady of New Orleans.
Starring: Margaret Sullavan•Roosevelt Grier•Ruth Donnelly
Model Wife (1941)
Model Wife is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and written by Charles Kaufman, Horace Jackson and Grant Garett. The film stars Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Charlie Ruggles, Lee Bowman, Lucile Watson, Ruth Donnelly and Billy Gilbert. The film was released on April 18, 1941, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: George Murphy•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Three Girls About Town (1941)
Three Girls About Town is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Joan Blondell, Binnie Barnes and Janet Blair. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The story was written by Richard Carroll.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Robert Cummings•Martha Raye
Topper Returns (1941)
Topper Returns is a 1941 fantasy comedy thriller directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Jonathan Latimer. The third and final installment in the initial series of supernatural comedy films inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith, it succeeds Topper (1937) and Topper Takes a Trip (1938).
Starring: Tyrone Power•Roosevelt Grier•Fernand Gravey•Wayne Morris
I Want a Divorce (1940)
I Want a Divorce is a 1940 Paramount film directed by Ralph Murphy. The screenplay was written by Frank Butler. The film starred then-married actors Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, who would later divorce in real life. Co-star Gloria Dickson and director Murphy were also later married to one another and divorced.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman•Lana Turner
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
Two Girls on Broadway is a 1940 musical film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lana Turner and Joan Blondell. The film is a remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Bobby Jordan•Gloria Dickson
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a 1939 American screwball comedy film produced by Everett Riskin for Columbia Pictures and directed by Alexander Hall. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell and Clarence Kolb. It was written by Dwight Taylor, Sy Bartlett and Richard Maibaum. The film is about a police lieutenant who is too busy solving crimes to m...
Starring: Greer Garson•Roosevelt Grier•Elvis Presley•Janet Blair
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris is a 1939 American romantic comedy film starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Elvis Presley
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
The Kid from Kokomo is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald. The film stars Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Joan Blondell, May Robson, Jane Wyman and Stanley Fields. The film was released by Warner Bros. on May 23, 1939.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Tuesday Weld•Mercedes McCambridge
Off the Record (1939)
Off the Record is a 1939 American drama film directed by James Flood and written by Niven Busch, Lawrence Kimble and Earl Baldwin. The film stars Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Alan Baxter, William B. Davidson and Morgan Conway. The film was released by Warner Bros. on January 21, 1939.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Tuesday Weld•Katy Jurado
There's Always a Woman (1938)
There's Always a Woman is a 1938 American comedy mystery film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas. Seeing the potential for a series, Columbia Pictures quickly made a sequel, There's That Woman Again, released the same year, with Douglas reprising his role, but with Virginia Bruce as Sally. No further sequels we...
Starring: Aldo Ray•Roosevelt Grier•Elvis Presley
Back in Circulation (1937)
Back in Circulation is a 1937 American film directed by Ray Enright and starring Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell. Based on the short story "Angle Shooter" by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Blondell plays a fast-moving newspaper reporter who senses a story when she spots a young recent widow partying in a night club. This film is preserved in the Library of ...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Tuesday Weld•Dina Merrill
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fernand Gravey, Joan Blondell and Edward Everett Horton.
Starring: Rip Torn•Roosevelt Grier•George Hamilton
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
The Perfect Specimen is a 1937 film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell. The picture is based on a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Starring: Howard Honig•Roosevelt Grier•Michael Pataki
Stand-In (1937)
Stand-In is a 1937 American screwball comedy directed by Tay Garnett and starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart. The film's screenplay was written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker from a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. It was produced by independent producer Walter Wanger, and released by United Artists. The film is set in ...
Starring: Ultra Violet•Roosevelt Grier•Joanna Cassidy
Colleen (1936)
Colleen is a 1936 Warner Bros. romantic musical film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Joan Blondell.
Starring: Howard Honig•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, with Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore.
Starring: Victor Moore•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Sons o' Guns (1936)
Sons O' Guns is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Jerry Wald and Julius J. Epstein. It stars Joe E. Brown, and features Joan Blondell, with Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore, Craig Reynolds and Wini Shaw. It was released by Warner Bros. on May 30, 1936.
Starring: Madge Evans•Roosevelt Grier
Stage Struck (1936)
Stage Struck is 1936 American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Warren William.
Starring: Adolphe Menjou•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
Three Men on a Horse is a 1936 comedy film directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name written by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. A mild-mannered greeting card poet has the uncanny ability to pick winners in horse races.
Starring: Adolphe Menjou•Roosevelt Grier•Guy Kibbee
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Broadway Gondolier (1935) is a musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film was released by Warner Bros., and featured Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou.
Starring: Conrad Nagel•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Ray Enright. The film stars Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, and Hugh Herbert. The film was based on the short story of the same name by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan in the Collier's magazine. It was released by Warner Bros. on December 14, 1935. Two stranded showgirls in California enter a b...
Starring: Howard Honig•Roosevelt Grier•Bette Davis
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Traveling Saleslady is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. It was released by Warner Bros. on March 28, 1935. It is one of five films by Warner Bros. where Farrell and Blondell were paired as two blonde bombshells. The other films include: Havana Widows (1933), Kansas City Princess (193...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Bette Davis•Dorothy Mackaill
We're in the Money (1935)
We're in the Money is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright. It was released by Warner Bros. on August 17, 1935. The film stars Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell and is one of five Warner Bros. films in which they were paired as blonde bombshell comedy duo. The other films include Havana Widows (1933), Kansas City Princess (19...
Starring: Howard Honig•Roosevelt Grier•Bette Davis
Dames (1934)
Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs include "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips ", "The Girl at the Ironing Board", "I Only Have Ey...
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman•Grant Mitchell
He Was Her Man (1934)
He Was Her Man is a 1934 American pre-Code mob film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, and Victor Jory. The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Roosevelt Grier•Genevieve Tobin
I've Got Your Number (1934)
I've Got Your Number is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins and Glenda Farrell. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 24, 1934. Two telephone repairmen romance a pair of blondes with many adventures. The supporting cast features Eugene Pallette.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Tuesday Weld•Bette Davis
Kansas City Princess (1934)
Kansas City Princess is a 1934 American comedy film starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. The film was directed by William Keighley with a script written by Sy Bartlett and Manuel Seff.
Starring: Robert Armstrong•Roosevelt Grier•Bette Davis
Smarty (1934)
Smarty, known in the United Kingdom as Hit Me Again, is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Florey and starring Warren William and Joan Blondell. It was adapted from F. Hugh Herbert's play by Carl Erickson (writer).
Starring: Frank Fay•Roosevelt Grier
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Blondie Johnson is a 1933 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris. It was produced by Warner Bros.
Starring: Stuart Erwin•Roosevelt Grier•Barbara Stanwyck
Broadway Bad (1933)
Broadway Bad is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Maude Fulton. The film stars Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames, and Francis McDonald. The film was released on February 24, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Frank McHugh•James Cagney•Roosevelt Grier
Convention City (1933)
Convention City is a 1933 American pre-Code sex comedy film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor and Adolphe Menjou. The film was produced by Henry Blanke and First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.
Starring: Aldo Ray•Roosevelt Grier•Jane Wyman
Footlight Parade (1933)
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The film was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour based on a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and was directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbe...
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Roosevelt Grier•Grant Mitchell
Goodbye Again (1933)
Goodbye Again is a 1933 pre-Code romantic comedy film made by First National Pictures and Warner Bros.
Starring: Frank Fay•Eric Linden•Roosevelt Grier
Havana Widows (1933)
Havana Widows is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Ray Enright, starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. It was released by Warner Bros. on November 18, 1933. Two chorus girls travel to Havana in search of rich husbands. Their target is Deacon Jones, a self-appointed moralist who cannot drink without getting drunk.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Bette Davis•Guy Kibbee
Big City Blues (1932)
Big City Blues is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and distributed by Warner Bros. The film is based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden, with uncredited early appearances by Humphrey Bogart and Lyle Talbot.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Glenda Farrell•Wallace Ford
Central Park (1932)
Central Park is a 1932 United States pre-Code feature-length crime drama film directed by John G. Adolfi. This rarely seen film stars Wallace Ford and Joan Blondell and exists in a nitrate print at the Library of Congress. It has seen a DVD release by Teakwood Video.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Walter Catlett•Guy Kibbee
The Crowd Roars (1932)
The Crowd Roars is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney and featuring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee, and Frank McHugh. A film of the same name was made in 1938 with a different story, starring Robert Taylor.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Roosevelt Grier
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell and Vivienne Osborne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Okey.
Starring: Victor Jory•Roosevelt Grier
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lowell Sherman, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and released by United Artists. It stars Ina Claire, Joan Blondell, and Madge Evans and is based on the play The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins. The studio originally wanted actress Jean Harlow for the lead after her...
Starring: Ruby Keeler•Roosevelt Grier
Lawyer Man (1932)
Lawyer Man is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Dieterle, based on the novel by Max Trell. The film stars William Powell and Joan Blondell. It was produced by Warner Bros. By the time of the release, several actors were credited in the studio, but were not seen in the film. These include Edward Arnold, Harold Huber and Henry A...
Starring: William Gargan•Roosevelt Grier
Make Me a Star (1932)
Make Me a Star is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin and ZaSu Pitts. The film is a remake of the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies, based upon the 1922 novel of that name, and the 1923 play adapted from the novel by George S. Kaufman, and Marc Connelly. It was rema...
Starring: Lewis Stone•ZaSu Pitts•Roosevelt Grier
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
Miss Pinkerton is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy mystery film about a nurse who becomes involved in a murder investigation. It stars Joan Blondell, George Brent and Ruth Hall.
Starring: Roosevelt Grier•Walter Catlett
Three on a Match (1932)
Three on a Match is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama released by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis. The film also features Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins and Edward Arnold.
Starring: Ultra Violet•Roosevelt Grier•Conrad Nagel
Union Depot (1932)
Union Depot is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros., starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Blondell, and based on an unpublished play by Joe Laurie Jr., Gene Fowler, and Douglas Durkin. The film, an ensemble piece for the studio's contract players, also features performances by Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale, Frank Mc...
Starring: Ben Lyon•Roosevelt Grier
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Blonde Crazy is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Noel Francis, Louis Calhern, Ray Milland, and Guy Kibbee. The film is notable for one of Cagney's lines, a phrase often repeated by celebrity impersonators: "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!"
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Roosevelt Grier•Laura La Plante
God's Gift to Women (1931)
God's Gift to Women is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic musical comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Frank Fay, Laura LaPlante, and Joan Blondell. The film, based on the play The Devil Was Sick by Jane Hinton, was originally completed as a musical film; however, because of audience dislike for musicals at that time, all the songs were ...
Starring: Dorothy Mackaill•Douglas Fairbanks Jr.•Roosevelt Grier
Night Nurse (1931)
Night Nurse is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama mystery film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable. The film is based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dora Macy, the pen name of Grace Perkins. The film was considered risqué at the time...
Starring: Stuart Erwin•Barbara Stanwyck•Roosevelt Grier
The Reckless Hour (1931)
The Reckless Hour is a 1931 pre-Code film directed by John Francis Dillon and produced and distributed by First National Pictures.
Starring: Frank Fay•Bette Davis•Roosevelt Grier
The Office Wife (1930)
The Office Wife is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, released by Warner Bros., and based on the novel of the same name by Faith Baldwin. It was the talkie debut for Joan Blondell who would become one of the major Warner Bros. stars for the following nine years.
Starring: Ray Milland•Bette Davis•Roosevelt Grier