Blondie for Victory (1942)
Blondie Has Dagwood in Splints...and America in Stitches!
71 min
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
- Release date
- August 6, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead
- Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead
- Larry Simms as Alexander Bumstead
- Daisy as Daisy
- Majelle White as 'Cookie' Bumstead
- Stuart Erwin as Pvt. Herschel Smith
- Jonathan Hale as J.C. Dithers
- Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle
- Edward Gargan as Sergeant
- Eddie Acuff as Husband Whose Wife Knits Socks
Crew
- Frank R. Strayer · Director
- Karen DeWolf · Writer
- Connie Lee · Writer
- Fay Kanin · Writer
- Chic Young · Writer
- Robert Sparks · Producer
- John Leipold · Composer
- Henry Freulich · Cinematographer
- Al Clark · Editor