Blondie On A Budget (1940)

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Dagwood, Arthur Lake wants to join the trout club and Blondie, Penny Singleton wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dagwood’s old girlfriend Joan, Rita Hayworth shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

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27 Replies to “Blondie On A Budget (1940)”

  1. why I would like to look back at these days positively… POSITIVE images, husbands and wives, No hypersex images or cursing and nudity…

    WHY I CANT look back…WHITE PEOPLE kept showing my people as scared, bubble eyed, and unaducated. NO, that wasnt just "the times".
    Blacks were in college, blacks were obviously doing something, for here you are seeing them taking on careers as actors!
    What they were asked to do while being actors was the problem.

    I would like to see back, and hear the wonderful music, but YOUR PEOPLE keep reminding me how we were hated back then, so this is "not for me"

    and for that reason, I feel they all should be banned.

  10. Most people aren't aware of the background story for the original comic strip. Blondie was an, ahem, "fan dancer" and Dagwood the scion of a wealthy family who was disowned when he married Blondie.
    Channel Five in NYC ran these movies for years starting in the early 1970's, every Saturday morning.
    I remember reading that notorious lech Bob Hope wouldn't stop groping Penny and attempting to get her into
    his dressing room so she kicked him in the groin. As the married Hope lay on the ground she kicked him again and again till USO people ran over and dragged her off him before she did permanent damage to the Hope jewels.
    For years Bing Crosby would often pretend to Bob Hope that Penny had been spotted nearby and that he should hide, Hope was not amused but many female stars loved Penny for standing up to Hope. Good for you Penny Singleton.

  15. $200 for the trout club would be about $3600 now. The coat would be about $3300. The permanent would be about $54. The boys were good actors.

  16. I don´t know what´s wrong with this series. I wander why male figures are rediculed in such a sleazy way. It is not funny at all. We should rather realize that there is something going pretty wrong in our societies. The male supersofty – and idiot having to deal with a smart woman.

  17. I love Blondie and Dagwood it was the best show ever And moan Paul kettle those were great shows do but I really love the Deadwood and Blondie they were great

  18. Daisy looks alot like the dog on petticoat junction. I wonder what breed or mix this dog is the darker ears are so cute both dogs have the same dark ears.

  21. The "Blondie" series was a huge money-maker for 12 years for Columbia Pictures. The studio was considered in the lower tier of Hollywood studios, but Columbia never lost money in a fiscal year until 1959. Rita Hayworth was just becoming a star when Columbia put her in "B" movies like this so she could learn her craft.The "Blondie"series was also the rehearsal for future stardom for Glenn Ford and Larry Parks.

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