The best Joan Blondell’s comedy movies on Apple iTunes

Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

30/08/1906- 25/12/1979
We present our ranking of the best Joan Blondell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Joan Blondell.
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Grease

Grease
7.2/10
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/05/1933
  • Character: Carol King
Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.

Night Nurse

Night Nurse
7/10
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 children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade
7.5/10
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Desk Set

Desk Set
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/08/1957
  • Character: Peg Costello
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.8/10
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1976
  • Character: Landlady
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
6.9/10
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Dames

Dames
7/10
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.

Stay Away, Joe

Stay Away, Joe
4.5/10
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.

Adventure

Adventure
6.1/10
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Waterhole #3

Waterhole #3
6.1/10
James Coburn is a con man and grifter who comes across a map that leads to a fortune in stolen US Army gold. Carroll O'Connor is the crooked sheriff who stays on Coburn's tail.

This Could Be the Night

This Could Be the Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1957
  • Character: Crystal St. Clair
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937
6.4/10
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1947
  • Character: Ann Nelson
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

Big Business Girl

Big Business Girl
5.9/10
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton
6/10
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 ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.

Advance to the Rear

Advance to the Rear
5.9/10
Slapstick rules in this 1964 Civil War comedy about miltary misfits and their incompetent commanders. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Jim Backus, Andrew Prine, Alan Hale Jr., Jesse Pearson, Michael Pate, James Griffith, Preston Foster, Yvonne Craig and the ever ubiquitous Whit Bissell.

There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 20/04/1938
  • Character: Sally Reardon
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

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