I too really liked Joan Blondell. Recently, while watching her in "Nightmare Alley" with Tyrone Power I looked her up on IMD and Wikipedia. She really had a very interesting life. One thing that I found particularly interesting was that she was marrired to Mike Todd at one time, a marriage that was unhappy and he gambled away all of her money. It is said that when she learned of his death in a plane crash she was purported to have said, " I hope he screamed all the way down". When I read this I could just hear her saying it!
Eddie