There's Always a Woman (1938)
Comedy | Mystery
An investigator for the district attorney and his amateur-sleuth wife compete to solve a murder mystery.
Starring: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake, Jerome Cowan
Director: Alexander Hall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Drama
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school…if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson
Director: Elia Kazan
The Public Enemy (1931)
Crime | Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Edward Woods, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Director: William A. Wellman
Desk Set (1957)
Comedy | Romance
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network's research department.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall
Director: Walter Lang
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to unpaid bills. Everybody is sitting in the street, and due to the Depression, there is no work for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But they hear rumors that Barney is producing a new show. They talk to him, and he promises to give them work – when he finds a backer to produce the new show. Barney hears the tunes of the composer next door, Brad Roberts, Polly's friend. Brad joins them and agrees to back the show. On opening night Brad takes over for the juvenile lead, who is suffering from lumbago. Brad has been very publicity-shy, because he is a member of an upper-class wealthy Boston family. When his family hears what he is doing, his brother Lawrence and the family attorney Peabody come to New York, to end his relationship with Polly. But Lawrence mistakes Carol for Polly, who does not correct his mistake. Lawrence decides to separate Polly and Brad by getting Polly to fall in love with him. But soon Lawrence realizes that he is really in love with that chorus girl.
Starring: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
