Born on this day – Joan Blondell:

Actress

August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979

Credits:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); About Faces (1960); Ace of the Mounties (1966); Advance to the Rear (1964); Adventure (1945); Adventures in Paradise (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1975); All Star Revue (1951–1953); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); And Baby Makes Three (1966); And She Learned About Dames (1934); Angel Baby (1961); Back in Circulation (1937); Banyon (1972); Battered (1978); Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991); Big Business Girl (1931); Big City Blues (1932); Big Daddy (1969); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bobby Parker and Company (1974); Bogart (1967); Bonanza (1964); Breakdowns of 1939 (1940); Broadway Bad (1933); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway's Like That (1930); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969); Carroll O'Connor Special (1973); Central Park (1932); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Colleen (1936); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Complicated Women (2003); Convention City (1933); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Dames (1934); Death at Love House (1976); Death Valley Days (1963); Desk Set (1957); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Donahue (1972); Dr. Kildare (1964); East Side of Heaven (1939); Family Affair (1967); Fantasy Island (1979); Feud (2017); Fireside Theatre (1955); Footlight Parade (1933); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); General Electric Theater (1955); God's Gift to Women (1931); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Goodbye Again (1933); Grease (1978); Havana Widows (1933); He Was Her Man (1934); Here Come the Brides (1968–1970); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Newsreel (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); I Want a Divorce (1940); Illicit (1931); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1950); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got Your Number (1934); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Around the Corner (1933); Kansas City Princess (1934); Kona Coast (1968); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Ladies Before Gentlemen (1951); Lady for a Night (1942); Lawyer Man (1932); Lizzie (1957); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Swinging Surgeon / Love and the Lovesick Sailor (1971–1973); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Make Me a Star (1932); McCloud (1971); Medical Center (1973); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Millie (1931); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Model Wife (1941); Movie Bloopers (1988); Mrs. Thursday (1967); My Past (1931); My Three Sons (1965); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Night Nurse (1931); Nightmare Alley (1947); Off the Record (1939); Opening Night (1977); Other Men's Women (1930); Penthouse Party (1950); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1959); Petticoat Junction (1968); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Police Story (1975); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slattery's People (1965); Smarty (1934); Sons o' Guns (1936); Stage Struck (1936); Stand-In (1937); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stay Away, Joe (1968); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Studio One (1958); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Suspense (1953); Sweepstakes (1979); Switch (1976); Talent Scout (1937); That Girl (1968); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1950); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Baron (1977); The Blue Veil (1951); The Champ (1979); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950 / 1954); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Crowd Roars (1932); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Devil's Parade (1930); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Glove (1979); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid from Kokomo (1939); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Love Boat (1978); The Lucy Show (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1972); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1955); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Movies (2019); The Name of the Game (1970); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973); The Office Wife (1930); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Outsider (1968); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Phynx (1970); The Public Enemy (1931); The Real McCoys (1963); The Rebels (1979); The Reckless Hour (1931); The Rookies (1973); The Snoop Sisters (1974); The Spy in the Green Hat (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1961); The Virginian (1963); 20 Questions (1950); The Witness (1961); The Woman Inside (1981); There's Always a Woman (1938); Things You Never See on the Screen (1935); This Could Be the Night (1957); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Men on a Horse (1936); Three on a Match (1932); Topper Returns (1941); Traveling Saleslady (1935); Tribute to Bogart (1972); TV Club (1951); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Union Depot (1932); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1963); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Waterhole #3 (1967); We're in the Money (1935); What's My Line? (1950); When the Talkies Were Young (1955); Who Said That? (1949); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Winchester '73 (1967); Winner Take All (1975); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).