Blondie on a Budget

Blondie on a Budget
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
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 29, 1940 (1940-02-29)
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.

Plot

Penny Singleton and Rita Hayworth in Blondie on a Budget

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.

Cast

• Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead
• Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead
• Rita Hayworth as Joan Forrester
• Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle
• Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling Bumstead
• Don Beddoe as Marvin Williams
• John Qualen as Mr. Ed Fuddle
• Fay Helm as Mrs. Fuddle
• Irving Bacon as Mailman
• Thurston Hall as Brice
• William Brisbane as Theatre Manager
• Emory Parnell as Policeman Dempsey
• Willie Best as Newspaper Boy

Bibliography

• Young, Nancy K. & Young, William H. World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2010.

External links

• Blondie on a Budget at IMDb
• Blondie on a Budget at AllMovie
• Blondie on a Budget at the TCM Movie Database
• Blondie on a Budget at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films