Joan Blondell Movies

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's...

Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to...

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from...

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural...

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a...

In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

A 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.

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never...