(75 min) Released 1939-03-08
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms,..., Dorothy Comingore
Genres: Comedy | Music
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031107/
Watched online; fair print.
The opening credits looked too modern to me. They start with King Features, which IMDb shows having TV rights to this in '95, but the credits feel more 50s/60s. The envelopes in the credits have stamps much more modern than '39 (yes, I collected stamps as a kid), and the last frame of credits has a cancellation mark of 1964.
A better synopsis: When Dagwood inadvertently resigns, Blondie is offered over his job. Dagwood gets roped into a fishing trip, with additional detrimental consequences.
This is the second of 28 Blondie movies, 1938-50, 1 of 2 tagged Music. Someone has a playlist of all 28 on YouTube.
Larry Simms (b. '34) is in all 28 as Baby Dumpling, who finally gets the name Alexander in '43's entry It's a Great Life. (Oddly, the actor also plays "Bailey Child - Pete" in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life ('46).) He's very precocious here. His last film credit (uncredited!) is the year after the final Blondie.
This got the tag Music from the brief jitterbug contest entered by Blondie's sister and her boyfriend, and attended by Dagwood. I'm putting it on the non-musical list.
Dorothy Comingore, the future Susan Alexander Kane in Citizen Kane ('41, her 17th credit), plays Francine Rogers, pivotal to the plot, in her 4th of 20 credits. We see her well at 28 min.
I'm amazed that Universal released the whole Francis the Talking Mule, and Ma and Pa Kettle, but Columbia didn't release these? Where is Treeline/Echo with these? Someone is offering the set on Amazon for $39. So they're in PD? Yikes.
The film is shruggable for me.
Columbia, dir. Strayer; 5
