Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Blondell
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) Lowell Sherman, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, Comedy
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Read More »
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Crime, Drama
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. Read More »
Lawyer Man (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Drama, Romance
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Read More »
Kansas City Princess (1934) William Keighley, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Comedy, Romance
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. Read More »
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) Alexander Hall, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor’s secretary. Read More »
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie are ecstatic when they learn that Broadway producer Barney Hopkins is putting on a new show. Read More »
Goodbye Again (1933) Michael Curtiz, Warren William, Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Comedy, Romance
Famed author Kenneth Bixby is on a tour of the US with his assistant Anne Rogers to promote his latest novel, Miriam. Read More »
Broadway Gondolier (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. Read More »
God’s Gift To Women (1931) Michael Curtiz, Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Comedy, Romance
Contemporary Casanova Toto loves beautiful women and pursues them shamelessly. Read More »
Lizzie (1957) Hugo Haas, Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Drama
Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes to a Dr. Wright who hypnotizes her. Deep in her subconscious, Dr. Wright finds three personalities; Elizabeth, the shy one that everyone knows; Lizzie, the wild one like her mother; and Beth, the good one she should have become. Dr. Wright must help the personality of Beth become the only one.
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Don Juan Quilligan (1945) Frank Tuttle, William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Comedy
In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his late mother. He married the other because she cooks like his mom. He soon finds himself in over his head. A good friend helps extricate him by devising an ingenious plot. The captain is to be blamed for a murder. He can then escape his wives by pretending to be sent to prison.
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