Cast: Joan Blondell

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · John Cassavetes · Joan Blondell

Plot A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Plot A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Blondell · Coleen Gray · Helen Walker

Plot This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dorothy McGuire · James Dunn · Joan Blondell · Peggy Ann Garner

Plot An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as the mother, with an Oscar-winning...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Grant Withers · Mary Astor · Regis Toomey · James Cagney

Plot Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Steve McQueen · Edward G. Robinson · Karl Malden · Tuesday Weld

Plot A rising cardshark challenges a veteran player for the chance to be known as "The Man." Set in the swampy hedonism of New Orleans during the Great Depression, the card...

Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast John Travolta · Olivia Newton-John · Stockard Channing · Jeff Conaway

Plot 'Grease', the movie version of the popular musical, is an idyllic portrayal of high school infatuation and 50's cool. Danny (John Travolta) and Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) share a summer romance,...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler

Plot Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Louis Calhern · Noel Francis

Plot At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ruby Keeler · Dick Powell

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ben Lyon · Joan Blondell · Blanche Friderici

Plot Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small...

Direction William Keighley

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Blondell · Barton MacLane · Humphrey Bogart

Plot After he's thrown off the force for hitting his superior, ex-cop Edward G. Robinson is hired as an "advisor" by city crime boss Barton MacLane, but gunman Humphrey Bogart doesn't...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Gig Young · Joan Blondell

Plot The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing...

Direction Ray Enright · Busby Berkeley

Cast Joan Blondell · Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Virginia Davis · Joan Blondell · Anne Shirley · Ann Dvorak

Plot Three women who were childhood schoolmates take different paths in life. Vivian marries a very wealthy lawyer and has an adorable boy. Mary, on the other hand, takes the hard...

Direction Richard L. Bare

Cast Joan Blondell · William Demarest · Sterling Holloway · Sandra Gould

Plot Philanderer Joe Britt sees his indiscretions shown on his own TV set after it was worked on by a unique repairman.

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jayne Mansfield · Tony Randall · Betsy Drake · Joan Blondell

Plot A hilarious satire of 1950's television in which an ad man desperately tries to get a beautiful movie star to endorse his agency's new product. Rock Hunter's job is on...

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Eleanor Parker · Richard Boone · Joan Blondell · Hugo Haas

Plot Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Jon Voight · Faye Dunaway · Rick Schroder · Jack Warden

Plot Tearjerking story of an ex-boxing champion, Billy Flynn, who is managing to support his son, and continually training for the come-back that never quite comes off...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ann Dvorak · Eric Linden

Plot Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer (James Cagney) returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion and...