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1990
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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After 12 years and 28 films, Columbia's Blondie series came to a close with 1950's Beware of Blondie. The plot is "business...
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Dagwood
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1950
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The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1949
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Blondie's Big Deal was the 24th entry in Columbia's popular "Blondie" series. Since the actors were getting a bit too...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1949
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16 Fathoms Deep was a curious choice as the first effort from Arthur Lake Productions. Heretofore known best as Dagwood...
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Pete
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1948
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1948
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The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came out in 1948. After...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1948
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Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy...
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1947
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This 20th entry in Columbia's long-running "Blondie" series finds poor Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) in financial trouble...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1947
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Blondie's Anniversary invades territory already mapped out by Columbia's two-reel Hugh Herbert comedies. Blondie...
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1947
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Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic...
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1947
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Blondie's Lucky Day, indeed! Not only must Blondie Bumstead (Penny Singleton) put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1946
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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Dagwood
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1946
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Blondie Knows Best was writer/director Edward Bernds' first entry in the long-running "Blondie" series, and arguably his...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1946
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Arthur Lake took time off from his Blondie duties at Columbia to star in Republic's The Big Show-Off. Lake plays an obnoxious...
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Sandy Elliott
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1945
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After a two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to Blondie. Older but no...
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Dagwood
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1945
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Marble Head Tomkins
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1944
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Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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Archie Whitaker
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1944
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A radio sound-effects man finds his honeymoon plans interrupted by the pesky presence of a corpse in his honeymoon suite....
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1944
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Arthur Lake takes a break from his Dagwood Bumstead duties in the "Blondie" series to star as furloughed sailor Marble Head...
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1944
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When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal...
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Dagwood
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1943
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Footlight Glamour is one of two "Blondie" series entries in which Blondie's name isn't included in the credits. Otherwise,...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1943
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie (Penny Singleton) joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league....
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1942
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An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic...
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1942
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One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that...
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Dagwood
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1942
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1941
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Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is invited by his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) to accompany Dithers on an ocean cruise to...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1941
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Few of Columbia's "Blondie" films went as far off the beaten path as the bizarre Blondie Has Servant Trouble. Things get...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1940
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1940
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Columbia's new "Blondie" series continued its winning streak with its fourth entry, Blondie Brings Up Baby. So much happens...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1939
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The discovery of a photo of her husband with an unknown woman leads Blondie to think he is having an affair. This movie is...
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1939
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This third entry in Columbia's "Blondie" series retains the freshness and laugh quotient of the first two, which is more than...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1939
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This second entry in Columbia's new "Blondie" series is every bit as delightful as the first. When Dagwood Bumstead...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1939
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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A woman is brutally strangled and her body stuffed into a suitcase in this otherwise rather frivolous low-budget thriller....
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Agent
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1938
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It's Double Danger for detective-story writer Robert Crane (Preston Foster) whenever he pursues his "secret life" as a suave...
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1938
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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Dagwood Bumstead
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1938
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In this comedy, designed to exploit the then current national craze for picture puzzles, an alcoholic advertising exec...
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1938
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Douglas MacLean, who starred in the original 1919 version of this World War I comedy, produced this remake starring...
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Turner
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1937
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival reporters" yarn....
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Bud
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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Screen Story
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1936
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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1935
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A homely woman gets the best kind of revenge upon her philandering husband in this drama. Tired of his constant cheating,...
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1935
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Long before its "Teen Agers" series of the 1940s, Monogram Pictures went to college in the minor musical Girl of My Dreams....
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Bobby Barnes
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1935
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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1934
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In this romance, an enrollee at the US Naval Academy finds it difficulty adjusting to the unending rules and regulations....
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Allan
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1933
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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Buster Collins
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1931
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A pre-Dagwood Arthur Lake plays a hapless hayseed who becomes a popular crooner in this fluffy musical comedy that begins...
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Eddie Fripp
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1930
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Two former Fox contractees star in RKO Radio's She's My Weakness, a flat adaptation of Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's...
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Tommy Mills
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1930
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Taxi dancing provides the framework for this romantic drama that chronicles the attempted love affair between a shipping...
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Tommy Flynn
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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1929
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The aforementioned appendages appear aplenty in this musical comedy that centers on a husband and wife seeking to recapture...
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Bill
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1929
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George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures' entry into the epic...
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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Tommy O'Brien
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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Harold Teen
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1928
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Speed Doolittle
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1928
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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The brother
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1928
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The title character is world-famous lothario Norman Kerry, who has given up keeping track of all his female conquests. While...
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1927
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1927
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The best of comic actor Reginald Denny's silent vehicles, Skinner's Dress Suit is a surprising contemporary piece about...
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Tommy
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1926
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