For the first television version on NBC in 1957 Lake was once again Dagwood, but Pamela Briton portrayed Blondie. The final broadcast was in 1950 and by that time Ann Rutherford was Blondie. Like the movies, it was more specific about Dagwood's office job and had him working for the J.C. The radio version of Blondie took to the air on CBS in the summer of 1939, also starring Singleton and Lake. Immediately successful, the series of "B" movies lasted until 1950 and ran to over two dozen titles. Arthur Lake, who looked born for the part, played Dagwood and Penny Singleton, her hair freshly bleached, was Blondie. More importantly, Young's characters were brought to the screen by Columbia Pictures in 1938. There were reprints in comic books and Big Little Books and, because of Dagwood's affinity for food, there were also occasional cookbooks. King effectively merchandised the strip in a variety of mediums. The Bumstead's second child, daughter Cookie, was born in 1941. Beasley the postman, with whom Dagwood frequently collided in his headlong rushes to the bus stop. Other regular characters were neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Daisy the Bumstead dog and, eventually, her pups, and Mr. Young perfected running gags built around such props and situations as Dagwood's naps on the sofa, his monumental sandwiches, his conflicts with door-to-door salesmen, Blondie's new hats, and his wild rushes to catch the bus to work. The birth of their first child, Baby Dumpling, in the spring of 1934 provided a new source of gags and helped win the strip an even larger audience. The gags, and the short continuities, centered increasingly around the home and the office, frequently concentrating on basics like sleeping, eating, and working. Blondie turned out to be far from flighty and proved to be a model housewife, gently manipulating her sometimes befuddled husband. Dithers, the feature changed and became domesticated. But after the couple married and the disinherited Dagwood took a sort of generic office job with Mr. Initially Blondie read like Young's other strips. The Blondie strip was created by Murat "Chic" Young, who'd begun drawing comics about pretty young women in 1921.Īfter several false starts-including such strips as Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora -Young came up with Blondie and King Features began syndicating it in September of 1930. They're still living a happy, though joke-ridden life, in close to 2000 newspapers around the world. The couple first met in 1930, when Blondie was a flighty flapper and Dagwood was a somewhat dense rich boy, and they were married in 1933. One of the longest-running marriages in the funnies is that of Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead.
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