Blondie's Blessed Event
Blondie has a baby... Dagwood has a fit... You'll have hysterics!
1942 · 69 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle.
Directed by Frank R. Strayer · Written by Connie Lee
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Penny Singleton Blondie Bumstead -
Arthur Lake Dagwood " Dag " Bumstead -
Larry Simms Alexander " Baby " Bumstead - D Daisy Daisy
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Jonathan Hale J.C. Dithers - D Danny Mummert Alvin Fuddle
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Hans Conried George Wickley -
Stanley Brown Ollie Shaw -
Irving Bacon Mr. Crumb -
Mary Wickes Sarah Miller -
Don Barclay Walter (uncredited) -
Sylvia Field Maternity Nurse (uncredited)
Blondie Collection
Blondie · 1938Blondie
★ 7.01938
MovieComedyFamily
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Blondie Meets the Boss · 1939Blondie Meets the Boss
★ 5.81939
MovieComedy
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Blondie Takes a Vacation · 1939Blondie Takes a Vacation
★ 6.31939
MovieComedyAdventure
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Blondie Brings Up Baby · 1939Blondie Brings Up Baby
★ 6.91939
MovieComedy
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Blondie on a Budget · 1940Blondie on a Budget
★ 6.21940
MovieComedy
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble · 1940Blondie Has Servant Trouble
★ 7.01940
MovieComedy
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Blondie Plays Cupid · 1940Blondie Plays Cupid
★ 6.81940
MovieComedy
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Blondie Goes Latin · 1941Blondie Goes Latin
★ 6.61941
MovieComedy
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Blondie in Society · 1941Blondie in Society
★ 6.41941
MovieComedy
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
Blondie Goes to College · 1942Blondie Goes to College
★ 6.61942
MovieComedyFamily
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Blondie for Victory · 1942Blondie for Victory
★ 7.61942
MovieComedy
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
It's a Great Life · 1943It's a Great Life
★ 7.71943
MovieComedy
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
Footlight Glamour · 1943Footlight Glamour
★ 8.01943
MovieComedy
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
Leave It to Blondie · 1945Leave It to Blondie
★ 6.81945
MovieComedy
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
Life with Blondie · 1945Life with Blondie
★ 6.71945
MovieComedy
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 as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
Blondie's Lucky Day · 1946Blondie's Lucky Day
★ 6.41946
MovieComedy
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the attention paid to Dagwood by pretty WAC Mary Jane McDermott. A whiz in business matters, Mary Jane sets up Dag in his own business, which replenishes the Bumstead coffers but which drives Blondie into a jealous frenzy.
Blondie Knows Best · 1946Blondie Knows Best
★ 6.91946
MovieComedy
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
Blondie's Big Moment · 1947Blondie's Big Moment
★ 5.51947
MovieComedy
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
Blondie's Holiday · 1947Blondie's Holiday
★ 6.61947
MovieComedy
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
Blondie in the Dough · 1947Blondie in the Dough
★ 6.51947
MovieComedy
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Blondie's Anniversary · 1947Blondie's Anniversary
★ 5.91947
MovieComedy
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
Blondie's Reward · 1948Blondie's Reward
★ 6.81948
MovieComedy
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
Blondie's Secret · 1948Blondie's Secret
★ 6.51948
MovieComedy
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
Blondie's Big Deal · 1949Blondie's Big Deal
★ 6.61949
MovieComedy
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
Blondie Hits the Jackpot · 1949Blondie Hits the Jackpot
★ 7.01949
MovieComedy
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
Blondie's Hero · 1950Blondie's Hero
★ 6.81950
MovieComedy
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Beware of Blondie · 1950Beware of Blondie
★ 6.01950
MovieComedy
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He even finds himself in a compromising position that seriously endangers his future connubial happiness with his wife Blondie. Once again, it's up to Blondie to straighten out the mess.
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★ 10.01945
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Anybody's Blonde · 1931Anybody's Blonde
★ 9.01931
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★ 8.01948
MovieRomanceDrama
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Laughing at Trouble · 1936Laughing at Trouble
★ 8.01936
MovieDramaComedy
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
Rough House Rosie · 1927Rough House Rosie
★ 8.01927
MovieComedy
A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
Pleasure Before Business · 1927Pleasure Before Business
★ 8.01927
MovieComedyRomance
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Blondie for Victory · 1942Blondie for Victory
★ 7.61942
MovieComedy
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
Go West, Young Lady · 1941Go West, Young Lady
★ 7.11941
MovieComedyWestern
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Blondie · 1938Blondie
★ 7.01938
MovieComedyFamily
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble · 1940Blondie Has Servant Trouble
★ 7.01940
MovieComedy
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Beau Brummel · 1924Beau Brummel
★ 7.01924
MovieDrama
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
Blondie Brings Up Baby · 1939Blondie Brings Up Baby
★ 6.91939
MovieComedy
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Soul of the Slums · 1931Soul of the Slums
★ 6.71931
MovieActionCrime
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
Blondie Goes Latin · 1941Blondie Goes Latin
★ 6.61941
MovieComedy
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Blondie Goes to College · 1942Blondie Goes to College
★ 6.61942
MovieComedyFamily
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Blondie in Society · 1941Blondie in Society
★ 6.41941
MovieComedy
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
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