Leave It to Blondie (1945)


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1h 14min | Comedy | Feb 22, 1945 | Released

After a nearly two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to Blondie. Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead (Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake) enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers (Marjorie Weaver). The best scenes involve Dagwood's misguided efforts to cure a cold, leading to several motheaten but still reliable slapstick setpieces. Leave it to Blondie proved that the series hadn't lost its humor as Dagwood is arrested for murder, obliging our heroine to solve the case herself. Former bandleader Kirby Grant registers well as the nominal hero, while Milburn Stone scores as an imitation Walter Winchell (named "Winchester", no less!)

Director: Abby Berlin

Producer: Burt Kelly

Writer(s): Connie Lee

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Cast (14 Members)


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Jonathan Hale

J.C. Dithers

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Larry Simms

Alexander Bumstead

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Eddie Acuff

Mailman

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Penny Singleton

Blondie Bumstead

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Arthur Lake

Dagwood " Dag " Bumstead

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Danny Mummert

Alvin Fuddle

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Daisy

Daisy

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Chick Chandler

Eddie Baxter

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Marjorie Ann Mutchie

Cookie Bumstead

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Marjorie Weaver

Rita Rogers

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Eula Morgan

Mrs. Laura Meredith

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Arthur Space

Mr. Fuddle

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Jack Rice

Ollie Shaw

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Franz Planer

Director of Photography

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Friedrich Hollaender

Original Music Composer

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Leigh Harline

Original Music Composer

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George Duning

Original Music Composer

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Mischa Bakaleinikoff

Original Music Composer

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Ben Oakland

Original Music Composer

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Jerome Pycha Jr.

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Chic Young

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Connie Lee

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Abby Berlin

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Burt Kelly

Producer

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Saul Chaplin

Original Music Composer

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Perry Smith

Art Direction

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Fay Babcock

Set Decoration

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Al Clark

Editor

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