
Black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he’s forced to borrow money from the Mafia. Complications ensue. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Blondell
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Stage-producer J.J. Hobart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn’t know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Read More »
The Perfect Specimen (1937)

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection Read More »
East Side of Heaven (1939) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance

Singer Denny Martin’s marriage to telephone operator Mary Wilson has been postponed several times already and is delayed once again when he changes jobs from singing telegrams to being a singing cab driver. Read More »
Two Girls on Broadway (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Musical, Romance

Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. Read More »
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) Alexander Hall, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Comedy

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Read More »
Nightmare Alley (1947) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Drama, Film-Noir

The ambitious Stanton “Stan” Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. Read More »
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) Henry Levin, George Brent, Joan Blondell, Adele Jergens, Comedy, Mystery

When a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop. Read More »
Off the Record (1939) James Flood, Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Drama

Blondell and O’Brien star as newspaper reporters who inadvertently send Jordan to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket the boy was a spotter for. Read More »
Back in Circulation (1937) Ray Enright, Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, Comedy, Mystery, Drama

Morning Express ace reporter ‘Timmy’ Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. Read More »
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) Mervyn LeRoy, Fernand Gravey, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance

Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Read More »
Were in the Money (1935) Ray Enright, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. Read More »
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935) Ray Enright, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Comedy, Romance

Gloria Fay and Mae O’Brien, two ex-chorus girls, run a ring toss stand at an amusement park near a Naval port. Read More »
Smarty (1934) Robert Florey, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy

Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased Read More »
Broadway Bad (1933) Sidney Lanfield, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Drama

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