Joan Blondell

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Name:	Joan Blondell
Status	Deceased
Age:	73 (August 30, 1906 -December 25, 1979)
IMDB:	IMDb
TMDB:	TMDB
Smoking Status:	Unknown
Type of Celebrity:	Actor
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TMDB Popularity	14.825
Biography (TMDB):	Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Blondell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Blonde Crazy

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She has a few scenes with light ups and a drag or two; don't remember any clearly visible exhales.

Cry 'Havoc'

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Movie about Army nurses during WW2. A number of scenes.

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Two lightings by Aline, the first being seductive in intent. Ruby lights up and puts the cigarette between her partner's lips. In a dance routine, Joan takes a light from a guy's stub, then places the fresh cigarette between his lips.

Lady for a Night

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lighting scene

The Crowd Roars

The Public Enemy

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At :31 Blondell and a friend are sitting at a table in a speakeasy, with Blondell only holding. Jean Harlow does not smoke in this film.

Three on a Match

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As the title suggests, the three ladies light their Chesterfields from a single match in a nicely-lit scene. Dvorak takes an immediate follow-up drag, Blondell performs two subsequent inhales/exhales, and Davis continues to eat before performing a brief French-inhale. Dvorak has the coolest scene in the picture, inhaling and then releasing a horizontal exhale from her mouth which switches to smoke trickling from her nostrils. She is also holding as she waltzes and as she kisses. The very last scene, two on a match, shows a lighting with French-inhale and a thick mouth-and-nose exhale from Davis, but the film ends before we see whether Blondell snaps back the thick smoke she produces.

Topper Returns

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[Blondell] It's stretching things to say she smokes. There is a scene, about minutes in, where the 'ghost', while invisible, gets a light and has a couple of supposed inhales and exhales. However, the inhale is about 5 inches below the exhale. It's obviously fake.

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

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At the very end of the movie, Groucho Marx hands Jayne his cigar, then he grabs her and kisses her. (no other smoking)

Candids

Photoshoots

Television

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