Joan Blondell Filmography

Larry asks Kate to write about "Office Wives" - executive stenographers whose work creates wife-like bonds with bosses. He's unaware that such stories can reflect reality.

Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a frame-up.

Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.

Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.

A Parisian descendant of Don Juan vows to stop philandering in order to win the hand of a virtous young lady with a disapproving father.

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Young man and an older man fall for a stage actress.

Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

In New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn't want to get married but had been stringing her along. When she realizes he doesn't want her, she will not force him even though she learned she was pregnant. She becomes bitter and angry at all men, until she meets a gentle and kind artist who tries to show her that her life can be better than it is.

The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.

Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.

Rich pianist Boris bets gold-digger Jean he can make her fall in love with him. She wins the bet, but he is intrigued by her friend Polaire's piano playing and proposes to be her instructor and lover. Jealous Jean schemes to separate them.

Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.

Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.

Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that; however, the way he fails makes her think that he could be a good comedian. She persuades the studio to put him in a western parody, not telling him what they're really planning, because they know that he does not like comedies. Rather than ending tragic-comically, the movie becomes a brilliant coda to art and its servants, the artists, in this case the magniloquent Joan Blondell and Stuart Erwin.

A hospital nurse is recruited by the police to watch a household where a suspicious death has occurred.

Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.

Attorney Anton Adam defeats rival Bentley in murder case and gets partnership offer. His career crashes when framed by racketeer Gilmurry and actress in fake lawsuit. Secretary Olga remains loyal through it all.

Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

The story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.