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Directed by | Frank R. Strayer |
Written by | Richard Flournoy Charles M. Brown |
Based on | comic strip Blondie by Chic Young |
Produced by | Robert Sparks |
Starring | Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Rita Hayworth Danny Mummert |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
Edited by | Gene Havlick |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth. It is the fifth entry into the long-running Blondie series of films, which ran between 1938 and 1950. [1]
Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat. Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join. Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to suspect that they are having an affair. After Dagwood wins money in a competition he decides to buy Blondie a fur coat, but uses Joan to try it on for size. Blondie sees them in the shop together and mistakenly thinks he is buying it for Joan. She decides to leave Dagwood for good, only to have a last minute change of heart.
Blondie is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. The plot involves the Bumsteads' fifth anniversary, Dagwood trying to get a raise, and Blondie trying to buy new furniture.
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