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Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979) was an American actress. Born into a vaudeville family in New York City, Blondell was a sexy, wisecracking, blonde pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers who appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions.
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Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy, wisecracking, blonde she was a pre–Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions.
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On August 30, 1906, Rose Joan Blondell was born to a Vaudevillian comic, in New York City. By the time she was three, her mother already had her on the stage. For years, she toured the country with her parents and joined a theater stock company when she was 17.
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Joan had seen much of the world by the time her family settled in Dallas, Texas when she was a teenager. (She ... had a brother, the namesake of her father and grandfather.) Under the name Rosebud Blondell she won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant and placed fourth for Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September of that same year. She was a student attending what is now the University of North Texas, then a teacher's college, in Denton north of Dallas, where her mother was a local stage actress. Joan did some work as a fashion model and posed nude for camera clubs. She was noticed by a Hollywood agent in 1930 while performing on Broadway after returning to New York to become an actress.
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A Campus Chat article reports that Blondell left Denton to return to New York, where she appeared in four editions of the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1930 a talent scout spotted her on Broadway and signed her to a contract. Studio bosses wanted her to change her name, but she refused, dropping “Rosebud” but keeping “Joan Blondell.”
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