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Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie.He debuted in the first strip on September 8, 1930. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married Blondie née Boopadoop, a flapper whom his family saw as below his class.
Dagwood Bumstead: Blondie's husband and a kind and loving, yet clumsy, naïve, and lazy man, his cartoonish antics are the basis for the strip. He is a big fan of ...
Blondie is the first of two television series based on the comic strip by Chic Young.The show first aired on January 4, 1957 on NBC and ran for one season. Pamela Britton starred in the title role and Arthur Lake played Blondie's husband Dagwood Bumstead, reprising his role from the Blondie film series.
The plot involves the Bumsteads' fifth anniversary, Dagwood trying to get a raise, and Blondie trying to buy new furniture. This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. [ 1 ]
Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) takes his family to a college football game and decides that he wants to go back to college. Blondie (Penny Singleton) tries to convince Mr. Dithers to talk Dagwood out of it, but Dithers recommends him to go to get it out of his system. While talking to Mr. Dithers, Blondie tells him that she is pregnant, but ...
Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, Housewives of America, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie's husband, Dagwood, isn't happy with coming home every night finding a note saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives.
The series featured Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead and Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead. Concurrently the film adventures were continued, with the same cast reprising their roles, in the Blondie radio series. [1] Columbia Pictures produced the films from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. [2]
The series stars Patricia Harty as the title character and Will Hutchins as her husband, Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real-life wife, Henny Backus, playing Cora Dithers. The series also featured Peter Robbins as the Bumsteads' son, Alexander, Pamelyn Ferdin as their daughter, Cookie, and character ...