Blondie (1938 film) Blondie (1938 film) Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. 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. When the "Blondie" film series came to an end with "Beware of Blondie" in 1950, it was announced that it would be replaced with a series of "Gasoline Alley" movies. However, only two such films were made, "Gasoline Alley" (1951)
Blondie (comic strip) wiseguy neighbor Alvin Fuddle. Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. Hale left the series in 1945 and was succeeded by Jerome Cowan as George M. Radcliffe in "Blondie's Big Moment". In the last film, "Beware of Blondie", the Dithers character returned, played by Edward Earle and shown from the back. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, did not appear in the series until "Beware of Blondie". They were played by Emory Parnell and Isabel Withers. In 1943 Columbia felt the series was slipping, and ended the string with "It's a Great