Gloria Blondell
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Blondell as Honeybee Willis (The Life of Riley)
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| Born | August 16, 1910 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, voice actress |
| Years active | 1938–1962 |
| Spouse(s) | Albert Broccoli (1940–1945; divorced) Victor Hunter (1962–1980; his death) |
| Relatives | Joan Blondell (sister) |
Gloria Blondell (August 16, 1910 – March 25, 1986) was an actress and voice actress between 1938 and 1962, and was the younger sister of Joan Blondell.[1]
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Family
Blondell came from a family of entertainers. She once said, "[S]ome member of my family has been in the theater ever since the time of Richard the Lionhearted."[2] Her father, Ed Blondell, was an actor for 80 years.[2]
Stage
Gloria Blondell said that she first went on stage when she was 9 months old, and she was described as "a trouper at three [years of age]."[2] Her family comprised a vaudeville troupe, the "Bouncing Blondells", whose members were her parents, her sister and her brother.[3] In 1935, she appeared in the Broadway production of Three Men on a Horse at the Playhouse in New York City.[citation needed]
Radio
Blondell had the role of secretary Jerry Booker on I Love a Mystery.[4]
Television
She may be best remembered for her role as Honeybee Gillis in the 1950s era sitcom, The Life of Riley. She appeared as enviably curvaceous Grace Foster in the I Love Lucy episode, "The Anniversary Present" (1952).[5]
She portrayed an aging prostitute who rescues a town from a trio of criminals in "The Looters", an episode of Wanted Dead or Alive. For Daisy Duck's second appearance as a Disney cartoon character, she took over, marking the debut of Daisy's "normal" voice. Blondell would voice Daisy for six of her nine speaking appearances during the classic shorts era.[5]
Film
Blondell co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Accidents Will Happen (1938)[6] and with Hans Conried in The Twonky (1953).[7] She was also in The Daredevil Drivers (1938).[8] * Three Sappy People (1939)
Personal life
She married film producer on Albert Broccoli July 26, 1940; they divorced August 7, 1945.[9] On September 14, 1946, she married Victor Hunter in Monterey, California.[10] They remained married until his death in 1980, just weeks after her sister's death.[11]
Gloria and Victor had one premature daughter, who died at birth. Gloria also nearly died from blood loss, and her life was only saved by an emergency hysterectomy.[12]
Death
She died at age 75 in 1986 in Santa Monica, California from cancer and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloria Blondell at Find a Grave
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