| Release Date: | Nov 1938 |
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| Genres: | Family / Comedy |
| Cast: | Penny Singleton (Blondie Bumstead), Arthur Lake (Dagwood 'Dag' Bumstead), Larry Simms (Baby Dumpling Bumstead), Gene Lockhart (Clarence Percival 'C.P.' Hazlip), Jonathan Hale (J.C. Dithers), Gordon Oliver (Chester Franey), Danny Mummert (Alvin Fuddle), Kathleen Lockhart (Mrs. Miller, Blondie's Mother), Ann Doran (Elsie Hazlip), Dorothy Moore (Dorothy 'Dot' Miller, Blondie's Sister), Fay Helm (Mrs. Fuddle), Willie Best (Hotel Porter), Ian Wolfe (Judge), Hal K. Dawson (Eddie (scenes deleted)), Chuck Hamilton (Policeman (scenes deleted)), Eugene Anderson Jr. (Newsboy (uncredited)), Stanley Andrews (Mr. Hicks (uncredited)), Hooper Atchley (Man on Bus (uncredited)), Irving Bacon (Mr. Beazley, the Mailman (uncredited)), Stanley Brown (S.W. Carey Salesman (uncredited)), Mary Jane Carey (Mary, Dithers' Secretary (uncredited)), Dick Curtis (Daily Gazette Reporter (uncredited)), Edgar Dearing (Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)), Richard Fiske (Nelson, Dithers' Employee (uncredited)), James Flavin (Policeman in Accident Car (uncredited)), George Humbert (Pie Salesman (uncredited)), Bud Jamison (Repossessor (uncredited)), Charles Lane (Furniture Salesman (uncredited)), Harold Minjir (Mr. Phillips, Hotel Desk Clerk...), David Newell (First Draftsman (uncredited)), Emory Parnell (Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)), John Rand (Gardener (uncredited)), Bruce Sidney (Detective at Hotel (uncredited)), Walter Soderling (Mr. Morgan (uncredited)), Larry Steers (Assistant Hotel Clerk (uncredited)), Josephine Whittell (Woman Seeing Optometrist (uncredited)) |
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family. Camping on the porch of the Poor House would become the most-used prevalent plot line in the 27 series-films that followed. It was also an issue in the comic-strip for about a year after its inception when it was basically a continuity strip but, aside from Dagwood's inability to coax a pay-raise from Mr. Dithers over the years, the financial status of the family was seldom an issue when the format switched to a gag-a-day strip.
