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Grease - Blu-ray (1978)
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Director: Randal Kleiser
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This film adaptation of GREASE is the zippy smash hit translation from the Broadway musical tribute to the fabulous 1950s. As a new school year begins, wholesome Australian exchange student Sandy (pop star Olivia Newton-John) and duck-tailed, leather-jacketed Danny (John Travolta) parlay their ..read more »

75% from 957 members

Grease on DVD (1978)
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Director: Randal Kleiser
Certificate:
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Three features: 'Grease' is a film adaptation of the zippy smash hit translation from the Broadway musical tribute to the fabulous 1950s. As a new school year begins, wholesome Australian exchange student Sandy (pop star Olivia Newton-John) and duck-tailed, leather-jacketed Danny (John Travolta) ..read more »

72% from 21,296 members

Death at Love House (1976)
Starring: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
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Donna and Joel Gregory are busy researching a book about highly-revered and long-dead Hollywood film goddess Lorna Love. They decide to visit Lorna's estate, where they stay while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Things get sticky when Joel, whose father had had a passionate affair with Lorna, ..read more »

16% from 5 members
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Support Your Local Gunfighter on DVD (1971)
Starring: James Garner, Chuck Connors, Harry Morgan
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Although SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER features the same director and many of the same cast members as SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF, the film isn't a sequel to the later movie. Instead, it's another delightful collaboration between director Burt Kennedy and leading man James Garner. This time around ..read more »

67% from 455 members

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? on DVD (1957)
Starring: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Director: Frank Tashlin
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A hilarious satire of 1950's television in which an ad man desperately tries to get a beautiful movie star to endorse his agency's new product. Rock Hunter's job is on the line because his agency has been threatened with losing its Stay-Put Lipstick account. To save his career, Hunter makes an all-..read more »

61% from 73 members

Desk Set on DVD (1957)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
Director: Walter Lang
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Bunny Watson heads up a research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major, TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department's functions, Richard Sumner arrives at Bunny's well-run ..read more »

67% from 436 members

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? - Blu-ray (1957)
Starring: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Director: Frank Tashlin
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Mansfield plays a Monroe-like movie queen whom adman Tony Randall hopes to sign for a product endorsement. Through a fluke, the press believes that Randall is having an affair with Mansfield; she eagerly pounces on the attendant publicity, much to the dismay of her body-builder beau (Mickey ..read more »

65% from 58 members

Nightmare Alley (1947)
Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Tyrone Power give the performance of his life as handsome scumbag, carnival baker, conman - Stanton Carlisle. He seduces fellow side show artiste Mademoiselle Zeena to learn the secret of once-lucrative mind reading act she performed with her alcoholic husband. Carlisle, a "born mentalist" secures ..read more »

70% from 631 members
Currently unavailable

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
Director: Elia Kazan
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One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his comeback performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable ..read more »

69% from 229 members
Currently unavailable

Lady for a Night on DVD (1942)
Starring: John Wayne, Joan Blondell
Director: Leigh Jason
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Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder.

56% from 10 members

Topper Returns on DVD (1941)
Starring: Roland Young, Joan Blondell, Carole Landis
Director: Roy del Ruth
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Topper is on the case, desperately trying to solve the case of the Little Girl Who Wasn't There.

60% from 85 members

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Starring: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market.

41% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Bullets or Ballots on DVD (1936)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell
Director: William Keighley
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After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Buggs" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent.

67% from 108 members

Footlight Parade (1933)
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

63% from 19 members
Currently unavailable

The Public Enemy (1931)
Starring: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow
Director: William A. Wellman
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Tale of two brothers of two walks of life

76% from 1,046 member
Not currently released

Joan Blondell facts

5 most recent films

Grease - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Grease - 3.5 stars
Death at Love House - 1.0 stars
Support Your Local Gunfighter - 3.5 stars
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Public Enemy - 4.0 stars
Grease - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Grease - 3.5 stars
Nightmare Alley - 3.5 stars
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Death at Love House - 1.0 stars
Gold Diggers of 1937 - 2.0 stars
Lady for a Night - 3.0 stars
Footlight Parade - 3.0 stars
Topper Returns - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Barry Pearl - 3 times - show films
Dinah Manoff - 3 times - show films
Didi Conn - 3 times - show films
Eve Arden - 3 times - show films
Michael Tucci - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Randal Kleiser - 3 times - show films
Frank Tashlin - 2 times - show films
Lloyd Bacon - 2 times - show films
William Keighley - 1 times - show films
Roy del Ruth - 1 times - show films