2012
Friday, September 13, 2013, 6:00 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100 rsvp@milibrary.org
www.milibrary.org
Screening: A Star is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
2012
Friday, October 5, 2012, 6:00 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100 rsvp@milibrary.org
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Midnight (1939) starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
2011
Friday, February 4, 2011, 6:00 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Libeled Lady (1936) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
2010
Friday, September 3, 2010, 6:00 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) starring Charles Laughton and Zasu Pitts
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:00 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Born to Kill (1947) starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence
Tierney
Monday,
February 22, 2010, 8 pm
Guest interview, Ten Percent, cable channel 104 Northern California,
Available Via ON DEMAND
Produced by Comcast & David Perry
www.comcasthometown.com and www.davidperry.com
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:15 pm with live q&a following
Screening, Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
Rialto Theater, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa
707/525-4840
www.rialtocinemas.com
2009
Film documentary
interview, Queer
Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) starring Warren
Beatty and Julie Christie
Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Hud (1963) starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas,
and Patricia Neal
Friday, January 30, 2009, 6:30 pm
Guest
Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Twentieth Century (1934) starring Carole Lombard
and John Barrymore
2008
Film documentary interview, Three Vaudeville Women: May Irwin, Marie Dressler, Eva Tanguay
Friday, June 13 - Sunday, June 29, 2008
"Joan Blondell: The Fizz on the Soda" eleven film retrospective,
University of California Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch, Berkeley
510/642-1124
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Kennedy will sign copies of Joan Blondell in the Museum Store and introduce the following screenings:
Friday, June 13
Blonde Crazy (1931) at 7 pm, followed by Night Nurse (1931) at 8:55 pm
Sunday, June 15
Footlight Parade (1933) at 6:30 pm
The tribute continues after the 15th with screenings of Three on a Match (1932) and The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) on June 20, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) on June 22, There's Always a Woman (1938) and Three Girls About Town (1941) on June 25, Nightmare Alley (1947) on June 26, Lizzie (1957) on June 27, and Opening Night (1977) on June 29.
Monday,
May 5 - Friday, May 9, 2008
Guest Star, Silver Screen Oasis, classic film website
www.silverscreenoasis.com
Mondays, March 31, April 7, April 14, 2008
Guest, Silver Screen Audio Podcast with Joel Blumberg
WGBB Radio 1240 Freeport New York
www.silverscreenaudio.com
2007
Wednesday, December 19 - Monday, December 31, 2007
"Joan Blondell: The Bombshell From 91st Street" thirteen-film
retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York
212/708-9400
www.moma.org/exhibitions
Kennedy will introduce the following screenings:
Wednesday, December 19
Blonde Crazy (1931) at 6 pm and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) at 8 pm
Thursday, December 20
Blondie Johnson (1933) at 6 pm and Nightmare Alley (1947) at 8 pm
Friday, December 21
Footlight Parade (1933) at 6 pm and The Blue Veil (1951) at 8:30 pm
The tribute continues after the 21st with screenings of Night Nurse (1931), Three on a Match (1932), The King and the Chorus Girl (1937), There's Always a Woman (1938), Three Girls About Town (1941), Lizzie (1957), and Opening Night (1977).
Sunday,
December 30, 2007, 6:30 pm, Western time
Guest, Book Talk with Alan Farley
KALW public radio, 91.7 FM
www.kalw.org/index.html
Thursday, December 20, 2007, 12:40 to 1 pm, Eastern time
Guest, The Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC New York Public Radio, 93.9 FM and AM 820
www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate
Saturday, December 15, 2007, 7:15 am, Pacific time
Guest,
Interview with film critic Jan Wahl
KRON-TV Channel 4 San Francisco
www.janwahl.com
Saturday, December 1, 2007, approximately 5:30 pm
Book signing, Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes, The San
Francisco Silent Film Festival, Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street, San Francisco
415/777-4908
www.silentfilm.org
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 7pm
Reading and book signing, Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes,
The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street, San Francisco
415/863-8688, 1-800/493-7323
www.booksmith.com
Friday, November 2, 2007, 6:30 pm
Guest
Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Jezebel (1938) starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
Friday, May 25, 2007, 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Gold Diggers of 1933 starring Joan Blondell, with
select readings from Kennedy's upcoming biography Joan Blondell:
A Life between Takes (University Press of Mississippi)
2006
Friday, September 22, 2006, 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker, CinemaLit Film Series, Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco
415/393-0100
www.milibrary.org
Screening: Footlight Parade (1933) starring Joan Blondell,
subject of Kennedy’s upcoming biography
Monday, January 16, 2006, noon
Guest Speaker, San Francisco Film Noir Festival, Palace of Fine Arts
Bay and Lyon Streets, San Francisco
www.filmnoirfoundation.org
Screening: Nightmare Alley (1947), directed by Edmund Goulding,
subject of Kennedy’s biography Edmund Goulding’s Dark
Victory (2004)
