Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6309 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1991 she was going to participate in Father of the Bride, but became pregnant and could not act in the movie. She died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In 1989 she married actor Kevin Kline. She married as her third husband, in 1947, the producer Michael Todd, who divorced her in 1950. She was famous in the early and middle 1980s for her acting in a handful of teen-orientated movies, and her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat, 16, Teen Beat and others. Powell (who became an actor, producer, and director). She is also the god-daughter of actress Joan Crawford.

Her second husband, married on September 19, 1936, was the actor, director, and singer Dick Powell; they were divorced on July 14, 1944, and had two children, Ellen Powell and Norman S. She is a native of New York City, where she attended the Children's professional Acting School. Barnes (1892-1953); they divorced in 1936. She is the daughter of director Joseph Cates and the niece of Gilbert Cates, also a director. She was married first in 1932 to the cinematographer George S. Phoebe Belle Katz Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress who, by her description, has retired from acting to become a full-time mother. She was widely seen in two films released not long before her death, Grease (1978) and The Champ (1979). The Anniversary Party (2001).

She also appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Desk Set (1957) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). Princess Caraboo (1994). Continuing to work regularly for the rest of her life, Blondell was well received in her later films, and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in The Painted Veil (1951). Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993). By the end of the decade she had made nearly 50 films. Drop Dead Fred (1991). Her stirring rendition of Remember My Forgotten Man in the Busby Berkeley production of Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), in which she co-starred with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, became an anthem for the frustrations of the unemployed and President Herbert Hoover's failed economic policies. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).

Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as The Public Enemy (1931), and was one half of the gold-digging duo (with Glenda Farrell) in nine films. During the Great Depression, Blondell was one of the highest paid individuals in the United States. I Love You to Death (1990). The popularity of her films made a great contribution to the studio's profitability. Shag (1989). She appeared in more Warner Brothers films than any other actress, and referred to herself as "Warner's workhorse". Bright Lights, Big City (1988). During the 1930s she would embody the depression era gold-digger, and with her huge eyes, blonde hair and wise cracking personality, became a crowd favourite. Date with an Angel (1987).

She soon moved to Hollywood where she was placed under contract by Warner Brothers Studios, making her film debut in 1930. Gremlins (1984). She won a local beauty contest and travelled to New York to become an actress. Lace (1984, TV). The daughter of travelling showpeople, Blondell had seen much of the world by the time the family settled in Dallas, Texas while she was a teenager. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Her younger sister, Gloria Blondell (1910-1986), was also an actress. Paradise (1982).

Her father, known as Eddie Joan Blondell, was a vaudeville comedian who was one of the original Katzenjammer Kids. She was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. Born into a vaudeville family in New York City, Blondell was a sexy, wisecracking, blonde pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers who appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979) was an American actress.