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Joan Blondell
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From tough molls to wisecracking gold diggers, Joan Blondell was a Warner Bros. star who brought her own brand of swagger and style to each film from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the twilight of her career.
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"Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon and Ruby Keeler play a trio of unemployed showgirls who are thrilled when producer Barney Hopkins (Ned Sparks) informs them he's about to start a new show. The problem is that he doesn't have a penny, but Brad Roberts (Dick Powell), a songwriter who is mad for Polly (Keeler) does, and lends Sparks $15,000 to get 'Forgotten Melody' off the ground. The show goes into rehearsal, with Brad taking one of the roles, but the girls wonder if his money is clean, except for Polly, who just knows he's legit. Of course he is. In fact, he's the scion of a wealthy Beacon Hill family; ... his brother, J. Lawrence (Warren William), and a lawyer, Faneuil Hall Peabody (Guy Kibbee), arrive from Boston to put an end to Brad's frivolousness.
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The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes a malevolent butler, a straightlaced housekeeper, a frightfully playful seal, the disappearing body of Joan Blondell, and Topper's chauffeur "Rochester" who is afriad of the invisible ghost's antics. Excellent special effects and outstanding performances by an all-star cast provides delightful entertainment.
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Blondell was a loving if not always wise mother and grandmother. Generous despite poor money management skills, she worked to stay solvent and support her family. Kennedy writes movingly about her battles with rheumatism, leukemia, a stroke, and her quiet death, with devoted sister Gloria nearby.
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Blondell works well with the public and has an instinct for what the public wants and will respond to. Having a "nest" is not especially important to Joan, and she may invest more of her emotional energy into her career or public life than in her private life. Providing and caring for others, in a professional capacity is very likely.
In the August 1931 issue of Photoplay, Katherine Albert wrote of Joan and Bern's relationship: "Paul Bern knew that Joan was miserable [in her early years in Hollywood] and he began the awakening of her mind. Paul taught her things she had not known existed...the beauty of words on paper, the feeling for musical harmony, the appreciation of form and color on canvas...that one simply cannot exist in a room cluttered with wildly painted Coney Island dolls."
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