Blondie (comic strip) was adapted into a long-running series of 28 low-budget theatrical B-features, produced by Columbia Pictures. Beginning with "Blondie" in 1938, the series lasted 12 years, through "Beware of Blondie" (1950). The two major roles were Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake (whose first starring role was another comic strip character, Harold Teen) as Dagwood. Faithfulness to the comic strip was a major concern of the creators of the series. Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches—and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of
Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory Blondie for Victory is a 1942 American film, and the 12th entry in the Blondie series. 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. And her son, Baby, is left on his own all the time. The family dog, Daisy, roams freely around the house with no one to look after it.