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  Archives 1996 | R: ARCHIVE, S: REVIEWS, D: 08/15/1996,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh, doing strange things with her mouth -- are those fake teeth?), posing as her manicurist sister Babe (Brooke Smith), pays a visit on opiate-addicted client Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson, a master at seeming enigmatic), whose powerful-politician husband, Henry (Michael Murphy), is an adviser to President Roosevelt.
Blondie is kidnapping Carolyn, she explains, to pressure Henry into using his influence to get her husband, Johnny (Dermot Mulroney), out of the clutches of the gambler Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte).
As Blondie, who admits that her role model is Jean Harlow, Leigh is put in the less than satisfying position of being an actress playing a character who's playing an actress.
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 Blondie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blondie (band), a band based in New York City, active since the 1970s.
Blondie (film), a 1938 movie based on the comic strip.
The movie was followed by a number of sequels until the 1950s.
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 We Review EVERYTHING!!! - The Good The Bad And The Ugly - movie review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie collects the reward for Tuco, then shoots his rope at the hanging and they two escape to run the scam on the next town.
Over the course of the movie it is established that while the two men might not like each other they do respect each other, and almost form a feeling of camaraderie.
It is a great movie, regardless of the fact that it is a western and is one of those films that's just a joy to watch.
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The stories in each movie were based on the lives of an all-American family called the Bumsteads: Dagwood the father, Blondie the mother, Alexander the adorable son (Baby Dumpling in the early years), Cookie the younger daughter, and of course Daisy the wonder dog.
Blondie (played by Penny Singleton) was the beautiful, neighbourly housewife who wore the pants in the household; which was a rarity on film in those days.
The movie series and comic strip were very popular, so when the show moved to CBS radio in 1939, it was also a hit.
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 Blondie (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name.
The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy.
This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip from 1938 to 1950.
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 MTV.com - Blondie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave movement of the late '70s.
Blondie expanded to a sextet in November with the addition of bassist Nigel Harrison (born in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England), as Infante switched to guitar.
The Hunter, Blondie's sixth and last new album, was released in May 1982, preceded by the single "Island of Lost Souls," a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and U.K. "War Child" also became a Top 40 hit in the U.K., but The Hunter was a commercial disappointment.
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 Blondie (1938)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Penny Singleton (as "Blondie Bumstead"), Arthur Lake (as "Dagwood Bumstead") and Larry Simms (as "Baby Dumpling"/Dagwood/"Alexander") were in all the films for 12 years.
Larry Simms was in "Blondie" at the age of 3 until he was 15.
The Blondie films are warm to the heart and very enjoyable to see and I highly recommend seeing them.
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 Penny Singleton
The Blondie and Dagwood movies were based on the famous comic strip by Chic Young.
During the 12-year run of the Blondie series, Penny Singleton had little success in being hired for other roles because producers, directors and even audiences saw her as Blondie and nothing else.
She had liked this aspect of being Blondie, but clearly she was anxious to broaden her horizons as an entertainer.
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 List of character-based movie franchises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of character-based movie series, in which many movies are made about the same main character, who may or may not be played by different actors.
The individual movies of a series may be produced or directed by different people over many years.
In more extreme examples, the main character may be repeatedly "killed off" and resurrected through supernatural means or other plot devices.
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 Official Blondie Web Site
Blondie, America's greatest pop band, is back on the scene with an amazing new album "The Curse of Blondie." It's a monster in more ways than one.
The original BLONDIE was formed in 1974 by art student/guitarist Chris Stein and ex-fokie, ex-Max's Kansas City waitress and Playboy bunny, vocalist Debbie Harry.
The fifth BLONDIE album, Autoamerican was released in January and the first single "The Tide Is High" made #1 in the UK.
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 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The movie tracks adventures of 3 men, Clint Eastwood aka The Good, Lee Van Cleef aka The Bad and Eli Wallach aka The Ugly, in their quest for $200,000 of Confederate money.
Together, they kill all of Bad's band and in their journey, blow up a bridge for which both the Confederate and the Union are fighting for.
Blondie writes the "name on the grave" on a stone and there would be a three-way shootout for the money.
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 List of movies based on comic strips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of movies based on comic strips.
The practice of creating films based on comic strips dates back decades, although in recent years films based on comic books have been more common.
Blondie (1938) and 27 sequels from 1939 to 1950, based on the comic strip created by Chic Young
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 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Film Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The film is frequently in the Top 10 of the IMDB Top 250 List of movies, which is based on user ratings.
The first character introduced in the movie is Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef).
Next, we are introduced to the duo, Tuco (Eli Wallach) and "Blondie" (Clint Eastwood), defrauding the local authorities by turning in Tuco for the reward money, and then, during his hanging, shooting the rope from Tuco's neck.
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 Blondie stars Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton at Brian's Drive-In Theater
While Blondie is about to give birth to Cookie, Dagwood gets into all sorts of trouble at work when he enlists an avant-garde playwright to write a controversial speech for him.
When Blondie finds a watch she thinks is her anniversary gift, Dagwood is in a tizzy trying to find something really special as a "replacement present." Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Grant Mitchell and William Frawley star.
Blondie stops in to see how her hubby is doing, but witnesses him almost starting a war, then saving the day.
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 Amazon.com: Deborah Harry: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Che also discusses the impact of Blondie's recent reunion, as well as some of Harry's lesser known feats, including her Broadway debut in Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap, costarring the late comedian Andy Kaufman.
With downtown Manhattan as cultural backdrop, Che rehashes Harry's hippy stint in Wind in the Willows, the formation and breakup of Blondie, her B-movie and C-solo careers, her influential style, and, ultimately, the beatific blondeness of being.
However, she divides the book thematically, such as Harry as a movie actress, Harry's influence on music after Blondie's departure from the music scene, as an icon for gays, and on fashion.
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 Blondie (movie) - Definition, explanation
Blondie is a 1938 movie based on the Blondie comic strip, that was directed by Frank Strayer.
The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy.
This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip from 1938 to 1950.
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 Encyclopedia: Blondie (movie)
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
Chic Young (9 January 1901 - 14 March 1973) is the byname of Murat Bernard Young, the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie.
Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was a Hollywood actress best known for her role in the series of motion pictures and subsequent radio comedy based on the comic strip Blondie.
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 Amazon.com: Blondie (1979): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Now that Deborah Harry and Blondie are reunited and back at it in the new millennium, folks are remembering what a great pop band they always were--and this 1979 concert in Glasgow, Scotland offers definitive proof.
This is the live concert given by Blondie for the BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979.
Blondie and Deborah Harry - Essentials from the rock goddess.
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 Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939 b 67')   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie has regrets and hopes Dagwood won't lose his job.
Blondie learns that Baby Dumpling is not at school and tries to reach Dagwood.
Blondie sees Dagwood arrested, but they hear Daisy and find Baby Dumpling with Melinda on a swing.
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 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Blondie (1938)
The first entry in one of the longest running film series in all of movie history (in terms of number of entries) introduces us to the screen incarnations of the famous characters of what may be the longest running comic strip in all of comic strip history.
Faithfulness to the comic strip was always a major concern with the makers of the film series -- the little touches, like the appearance of Bumstead sandwiches and Dagwood crashing in to the mailman in a flurry of letters, are simply delightful.
Sometimes Blondie pulls him out of it, sometimes blind luck does the job, but regardless, we can't help but laugh and sympathize, laugh and sympathize.
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 Moviehole.net - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Collectors Edition (DVD)
Those elements can only describe one movie: the groundbreaking Sergio Leone Western “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Now, to the delight of fans everywhere, the film has been re-issued in a Special Edition DVD loaded with extras.
It opens with Blondie (Clint Eastwood — The Good) and Tuco (Eli Wallach — The Ugly) operating a scam in which Blondie repeatedly brings in Tuco, the Wanted Man, to collect the reward.
But before Tuco can be hanged, Blondie severs the rope with one well-placed shot, and the pair escape, only to pull the scam in another town.
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 Blondie (movie) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie (movie) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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On screen, Singleton was the perfect Blondie: Calm and reasonable most of the time, which was a miracle considering she was married to one of the most dither-prone dimwits in American pop media.
In the opening moments of the first "Blondie" movie, Singleton warns a salesman to position himself safely a block away from the house to avoid being bowled over by the fast-moving Dagwood as he storms out the front door and off to work, invariably late again.
Then, she basically clears the way for Dagwood as he rockets through the kitchen on the way to the front door, where the mailman is almost always waiting to be run over by Dagwood, scattering his mail to the winds.
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 VH1 Behind the Music Blondie - DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Behind The Music: Blondie examines the band that kicked off the New York City punk scene and helped make CBGB "ground zero" for some of the most exciting music in the world.
Blondie members recall the obscure illness that took hold of guitarist Chris Stein, and how a bizarre coincidence broke the story to the world.
Through rare footage and interviews with Blondie and pals (like Joey Ramone) who were part of the downtown scene, this VH-1 Behind The Music tells the fascinating story of a band that would rise from the grit of punk rock's ashes to become a seminal force in new music.
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But she was most identified with her role as the wife of bumbling Dagwood Bumstead in the movies based on the popular comic strip created by Chic Young.
But by the time Blondie came to television for the first time in 1957, Singleton was almost 50, and the role went to the younger Pamela Britton.
The remarkable run of movies began with "Blondie" and included "Blondie on a Budget" (1940), in which budding actress Rita Hayworth had a role; "Blondie for Victory" (1942); "Blondie Hits the Jackpot"; and the final film in the series, "Beware of Blondie" (1950).
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 Arts/Movies/Titles/B/Blondie Series? dmoz.com.au
Blondie - The Movie Series - Photos, character biographies and sound clips from the series.
Blondie (1938) - Cast, crew and reviews from the Internet Movie Database of the first film in the series.
Blondie (Film Series) - Cast, crew and plot synopses of the twenty-eight films in the series.
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 07/26/1999: Comic strips of the past and that was made into a movie or tv series   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This movie was reported to be one of the worst.
Before there was movie, there was the tv series.
Luckley it didn't have Pauly Shore in it.
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 Blondie Goes Latin (1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The supposedly unconscious character can be seen holding/adjusting the hem of her dress as Dagwood tries to open the door.
This is the 8th film in the series of 28 (1938-1950).
But Dithers insists on Blondie (Penny Singleton), Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) and Daisy too to stay on the ship with him with his compliments.
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 Blondie (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Blondie (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Blondie is a 1938 (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) movie based on the (additional info and facts about Blondie comic strip) Blondie comic strip, that was directed by Frank Strayer.
The screenplay was written by (additional info and facts about Chic Young) Chic Young and Richard Flournoy.
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 Blondie's Hero (1950)
At this point, the character of "Blondie" is very mellow as compared to the "Blondie" of earlier films.
The plot of this movie is inviting because it's not just another "Dagwood-gets-fired-and-tries-to-get-his-job-back" routine.
This is one of my personal favorites of the Blondie films, although I love all of them dearly.
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 VH1 Behind the Music - Blondie DVD Movie
Watch as the band members and friends tell the story of how they rose from the NY punk scene to a strong comeback in 1999.
This is a thorough and precise documentary on Blondie and Debbie Harry with VERY rare footage, such as a rare performace by The Wind In The Willows (Debbie's first band), almost 2 minutes of Debbie's "I Can See Clearly" video from 1993, Debbie and Chris behind the scenes and MUCH MUCH more.
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