#joan blondell

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! Thanks for joining me on this little journey! Best wishes, Rhett

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NIGHTMARE ALLEY 1947 | Edmund Goulding

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Baths and Bubbles.

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Propaganda

Martha Sleeper (Penthouse, Broken Dreams)— Her eyes are enough! She is one of the most beautiful women in old hollywood and should be more well known

Joan Blondell (Footlight Parade, The Public Enemy)—My Pre-code QUEEEEEN. Joan is a large part of why I love 30s movies. She's got such a flair and presence. She's not known for her voice, but her rendition of Remember My Forgotten Man will grab you by the heart. She played a variety of roles, and held her own with major stars like Bette Davis and Hot Vintage Poll icon James Cagney. She was a hardworker, even as Hollywood stopped giving her prime roles, and continued working in film and television up until her death. She's an absolute firecracker, even in her supporting roles I end up focused on her. Also, I just think it's cute that her name (real!) is Blondell.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Joan Blondell:

A pre-code sweetie. Hot, funny and practical.

Criterion retrospective:

Sharp-tongued, sharp-witted, and beautiful - what more could you ask for from a dame of the gangster film/screwball comedy era? (Also, James Cagney would want you to vote for her!)

with her sunny smile and characters tending to exhibit a blend of happy-go-lucky cheerfulness and scrappy toughness, joan blondell is one of the quintessential stars of the pre-code era. she and fellow fast-talking wisecracker james cagney were close friends, having met when they were in a broadway play together in 1929, and made seven movies together that ran the gamut from gangster pictures to comedies to musicals.

She's absolutely hilarious and I love her

She's the wisecracking blonde who has been around the block and knows the score, but just look at those big blue eyes gazing at Jimmy Cagney as she burns the midnight oil to help him achieve his dreams and picks him up when he gets buffeted by life

Smart, snarky, and so sexy!

My Forgotten Man is one of the most haunting depictions of the consequences of WWI that I’ve ever seen, knocked out of the park by Joan Blondell’s performance. In one song number it traces sending the boys off to war, bringing them back to die in the streets maimed, drunk, and full of PTSD, then leaving them to starve in the Depression, framed by the suffering of the women who loved them. Holy shit? This is a musical number? They fucking produced this barnburner in a mainstream musical?

My Forgotten Man, in two parts:

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Joan Blondell

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Carole Landis and Joan Blondell in 1941

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"How can a guy get so low?"

"He reached too high."

Nightmare Alley (1947)

director. Edmund Goulding

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There ain’t nothing like this dame.

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Joan Blondell

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Joan Blondell

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Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell in Nightmare Alley (1947)

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Joan Blondell in a promotional still for Warner Bros., 1932 😍😍😍😍

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Mr. Successful, you've got it made!

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) — dir. Frank Tashlin

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consoling myself over joan blondell's loss by thinking about her reunion with her pal james cagney in the shadow realm. they are cracking wise and getting up to antics.

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Joan Blondell "Vampiresas 1933" (Gold diggers of 1933) 1933, de Mervyn LeRoy.