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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Joan Blondell</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/joan-blondell/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.4: John Cassavetes&#039; OPENING NIGHT, Transsexualism in THE WOMAN INSIDE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:37:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27628</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell Q&#038;A Pt.3: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Condoms and Censorship Though I know that Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern were quite different as performers, they often played no-nonsense, wisecracking dames in lots of programmers &#8212; Blondell at WB, Sothern at RKO and then MGM. Now, Sothern became an A-list player at MGM in the late 1940s, after having been around for more than [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.3: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Condoms and Censorship</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:34:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27627</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joan Blondell Q&#038;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY My favorite Joan Blondell performance is her Aunt Sissy in Elia Kazan's 20th Century-Fox drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). How did she get that role? What was it like for her to work with Kazan, Peggy Ann [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27626</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell: Q&#038;A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy Pt.1 What did Joan Blondell have to say about the musicals she made for Busby Berkeley? What about Ruby Keeler, James Cagney, and her other fellow contract players? Did she get along with them? [Photo: Joan Blondell in Mervyn LeRoy's Gold Diggers of 1933.] Joan said, not surprisingly, that those musicals were tough. There was extra rehearsal needed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy: Warner Bros. Years, Rare THE BLUE VEIL</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:22:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27625</guid> <description><![CDATA[JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES: Introduction to Q&#038;A with Joan Blondell biographer Matthew Kennedy Why Joan Blondell? Actually, this book idea originally came from Joan's son, Norman Powell, who is a director and producer. I was writing a biography of the director Edmund Goulding a few years back, and Norman interviewed me for a documentary he was making on Old Hollywood. When we were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon owner in the late 1960s television series Here Come the Brides, or a lively, fast-talking, no-nonsense, and unconventionally sexy gold digger in numerous Pre-Code Warner Bros. comedies and musicals of the early 1930s. Matthew Kennedy's Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (University [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Movie Schedule: STAND-IN, CRY HAVOC, KONA COAST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-movie-stand-in-cry-havoc-kona-coast/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-movie-stand-in-cry-havoc-kona-coast/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:13:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell on TCM: DAMES, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Schedule (ET) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 AM THE RECKLESS HOUR (1931) A young innocent almost ruins her life for the love of an unfeeling cad. Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, H. B. Warner. BW-71 mins. 7:15 AM BIG CITY BLUES (1932) A country boy finds love and heartache [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-movie-stand-in-cry-havoc-kona-coast/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell on TCM: DAMES, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:12:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27622</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Dames Joan Blondell has always been a favorite of mine, much like fellow wisecracking 1930s Warner Bros. players Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The fact that Blondell never became a top star says more about audiences &#8212; who preferred, say, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney &#8212; than about Blondell's screen presence and acting abilities. As part of its &#34;Summer Under the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ann Dvorak Pt.4: Warner Bros. Co-Stars, THREE ON A MATCH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:42:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27556</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ann Dvorak, Paul Muni, Dr. Socrates Ann Dvorak Pt.3: SCARFACE, Warner Bros. Leading Lady, But Never a Star Ann Dvorak played opposite most big names at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. In addition to the aforementioned Joan Blondell and Bette Davis, there were Warren William, Paul Muni, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., James Cagney, Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, and Richard Barthelmess, among others. How did she get [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ann Dvorak Movie Schedule: THREE ON A MATCH, OUR VERY OWN, COLLEGE COACH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27549</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Three on a Match Ann Dvorak on TCM Part I: SCARFACE, I WAS AN AMERICAN SPY Another cool Ann Dvorak performance is her drug addict in Mervyn LeRoy's Three on a Match (1932), which features a great cast that includes Warren William, Joan Blondell, and a pre-stardom Bette Davis. Never, ever light three cigarettes using the same match, or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1945</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:05:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter FILM Blithe Spirit d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson Brief Encounter d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame Dead of Night d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail Les Enfants du paradis / Children [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
