Joan Blondell and Chester Morris in Blondie Johnson (1933)

            Vintage British postcard. Film Weekly. Joan Blondell and Chester Morris in the pre-Code gangster film Blondie Johnson (Ray Enright, First National 1933).

American actress Joan Blondell (1906–1979)  performed in more than 100 films and on television for five decades, often as the wisecracking blonde.

After winning a beauty pageant, Joan Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukaemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979).

Though a major actor in early 1930s Hollywood cinema, American film actor Chester Morris  will forever be associated with the character f detective Boston Blackie. 

Chester Morris' dark, good-looks and chiselled jaw made him a natural for movie stardom, but it wasn't until the transition of silent pictures to the talkies that he became a film actor. He was one of the first actors to be nominated for an Academy Award when in 1930 (the second year of the as-yet non-nicknamed Oscars) he was recognized with a nod as Best Actor for Alibi (1929), his first talking picture. But it was his appearance in The Big House (1930), the film for which he is best known, that he broke through to stardom. From 1930 through the middle of the decade, he was a star with good roles in first-rate pictures, usually performing a tough guy. However, his star dimmed and by the end of the decade he was appearing in B-pictures, but beginning in 1941, the Boston Blackie series at Columbia Pictures revived his career. In all, he appeared in 14 pictures as the detective. He later segued to TV work in the 1950s and '60s, appearing in the occasional film such as his last, The Great White Hope (1970), which meant he had been a working movie actor in seven decades. Although he was afflicted with cancer, it is unclear whether he took his own life as he was apparently in good spirits and left no note September 11, 1970.

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