Joan Blondell — Actor (26)
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Convention City (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Convention City
director: Archie Mayo actor: Joan Blondell / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: ¡Que semana! / ¡Qué semana! …
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
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Kansas City Princess (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kansas City Princess
director: William Keighley actor: Joan Blondell / Glenda Farrell …
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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The Perfect Specimen (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Perfect Specimen
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Errol Flynn / Joan Blondell …
other title: Un homme a disparu / El perfecto ejemplar …
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
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He Was Her Man (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
He Was Her Man
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: James Cagney / Joan Blondell …
other title: 金風玉露一相逢 / 金风玉露一相逢 …
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals". He then flees from killers with a San Francisco fisherman's fiancee.
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Smarty (1934) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Smarty
director: Robert Florey actor: Joan Blondell / Warren William …
other title: Caprichos
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Good Girls Go to Paris
director: Alexander Hall actor: Melvyn Douglas / Joan Blondell …
other title: Por un viaje a París / Nous irons à Paris …
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Advance to the Rear (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Advance to the Rear
director: George Marshall actor: Glenn Ford / Stella Stevens …
other title: Helden ohne Hosen / Le Bataillon des lâches …
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.
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Cry 'Havoc' (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cry 'Havoc'
director: Richard Thorpe actor: Margaret Sullavan / Ann Sothern …
other title: Cry "Havoc" / Cry Havoc
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Spy in the Green Hat
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Robert Vaughn / David McCallum …
other title: Der Mann im grünen Hut / L'Espion au chapeau vert …
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
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Millie (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Millie
director: John Francis Dillon actor: Helen Twelvetrees / Lilyan Tashman …
other title: 米莉
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Stay Away, Joe (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Stay Away, Joe
director: Peter Tewksbury actor: 埃尔维斯·普雷斯利 / 布吉斯·梅迪斯 …
other title: Harte Fäuste, heiße Lieder / Micmac au Montana …
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 Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bullets or Ballots
director: 威廉·杰克逊·基利 actor: 爱德华·罗宾逊 / Joan Blondell …
other title: Guerra ao Crime / Wem gehört die Stadt? …
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.