FrameThrower · Actors · Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell
3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1945–1977
Born 30 August 1906 · New York City, New York, USA · died 25 December 1979
Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress.
After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951).
Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979), released shortly before her death from leukemia.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1945–1977
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 183 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Joan takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 183 frames from Joan Blondell's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.