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) Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, and John Marshall. Despite these changes, "Blondie" has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. Since 2006, "Blondie" has also been available via email through King Features' DailyINK service. Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier "pretty girl" creations "Beautiful Bab" and "Dumb Dora", "Blondie" focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune. The name "Boopadoop" derives from the scat singing lyric that