Joan Blondell Kendrick-Watkins, 86, of East Hartford, passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 27, 2025, at her home. She was the wife of the late Fred Watkins Sr. Born in Hartford on January 6, 1939, ...

Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking ...

Dirt tracks, open cockpits, and wicked speed — the formative years of auto racing were as dangerous as they were exhilarating. Perhaps nowhere is this spirit better captured than in the 1932 film, The ...

Despite being exhausted after a hard day's work, it was still two hours before my normal bedtime, so I turned on an old movie that had been recorded several nights previously. “Kansas City Princess,” ...

9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm.) Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Ned Sparks and Joan Blondell in Warner Brothers` `Gold Diggers of 1933` as Barney Hopkins and Carol King, some of GW`s ...