Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of
the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered
motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television,
and radio. Born the child of itinerant vaudevillians, she was on
stage by age three. With her casual sex appeal, distinctive cello
voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing,
she came into widespread fame in Warner Bros. musicals and comedies
of the 1930s, including Blonde Crazy, Gold Diggers of 1933, and
Footlight Parade. Frequent co-star to James Cagney, Clark Gable,
Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart, friend to Judy Garland,
Barbara Stanwyck, and Bette Davis, and wife of Dick Powell and Mike
Todd, Joan Blondell was a true Hollywood insider. By the time of
her death, she had made nearly 100 films in a career that spanned
over fifty years. Privately, she was unerringly loving and
generous, while her life was touched by financial, medical, and
emotional upheavals. Meticulously researched, expertly weaving the
public and private, and featuring numerous interviews with family,
friends, and colleagues, Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes traces
the changing face of Twentieth Century American entertainment
through the career of this extraordinary actress.
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