I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

) In 1937 Joan Blondell starred opposite Errol Flynn in The Perfect Specimen. In that installment Blondell played FloraBelle Campbell a lady visitor to Hooterville who had once dated Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) and Sam Drucker (Frank Cady). Joan had spent six years in Australia and seen much of the world by the time her family who had been on tour settled in Dallas Texas when Joan Blondell was a teenager.

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 leukemia Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979). Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life often in small character roles or supporting television roles.