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Blondie's Big Deal (1949)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Jerome Cowan Edward Bernds Larry Simms   

Tags: Farce Comedy Domestic Comedy 

Length: 66min

Blondie's Big Deal was the 24th entry in Columbia's popular "Blondie" series. Since the actors were getting a bit too long-in-tooth to be thoroughly convincing in their characterizations, Big Deal is for the most part played on a farcical level. This...

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Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms Edward Bernds Jerome Cowan   

Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy 

Length: 66min

The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood (Arthur Lake) takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm. He is rescued from penury when Blondie (Penny Singleton)...

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Blondie's Reward (1948)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms Paul Harvey Jerome Cowan   

Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy 

Length: 65min

The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came out in 1948. After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome...

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Blondie's Holiday (1947)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms Jerome Cowan Grant Mitchell   

Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy 

Length: 61min

This 20th entry in Columbia's long-running "Blondie" series finds poor Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) in financial trouble once again. Unable to obtain a raise from boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan), Dagwood begins "playing the ponies" at the race track,...

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Blondie Knows Best (1946)

Cast: Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Shemp Howard Larry Simms Edward Bernds   

Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy Workplace Comedy 

Length: 69min

Blondie Knows Best was writer/director Edward Bernds' first entry in the long-running "Blondie" series, and arguably his funniest. The story contrives to have Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) pose as his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) so that a big...

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Life with Blondie (1946)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms Marc Lawrence Douglas Fowley   

Tags: Comedy Crime Domestic Comedy 

Length: 64min

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position...

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Leave It to Blondie (1945)

Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms Marjorie Weaver Jonathan Hale   

Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy 

Length: 75min

After a two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to Blondie. Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead (Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake) enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover...

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Blondie's Secret (1948)

Cast: Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Edward Bernds Larry Simms Jerome Cowan   

Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy 

Length: 68min

This 23rd entry in the "Blondie" film series stars, as ever, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead respectively. It all begins as Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe (Jerome...

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Blondie's Lucky Day (1946)

Cast: Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Mischa Bakaleinikoff Abby Berlin   

Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Domestic Comedy 

Length: 69min

Blondie's Lucky Day, indeed! Not only must Blondie Bumstead (Penny Singleton) put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood (Arthur Lake) is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale), but she must also tolerate the attentions paid to...

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