It’s hard to say who gives a better performance in Blondie Meets the Boss, Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling or Daisy the dog. Simms has a lot of funny lines–all the best lines are from kids talking about adults, it was hard not to think this entry should have been called “Kids Say the Darndest […]
Entries Tagged as 'Penny Singleton'
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939, Frank R. Strayer)
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Chic Young· Columbia Pictures· Frank R. Strayer· Kay Van Riper· Penny Singleton· Richard Flournoy· ★
Blondie (1938, Frank R. Strayer)
June 7th, 2006 · No Comments
When I was in middle school, I read most of the comic strips in the newspaper, Blondie being one of them. I remember seeing, in the TV listings around the same time (probably a little later), some station running a bunch of Blondie movies at five o’clock in the morning. I missed taping them, but […]
Tagged: Chic Young· Columbia Pictures· Frank R. Strayer· Gene Lockhart· Penny Singleton· Richard Flournoy· ★★½
After the Thin Man (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)
December 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
The last time I had a Thin Man marathon–which must have been five years ago, maybe more (I had the LaserDisc set, so I’m trying to remember when I started concentrating more on DVD), I thought After the Thin Man, the second film in the series, was disappointing. Now I’m not having a marathon, just […]
Tagged: Albert Hackett· Dashiell Hammett· Frances Goodrich· James Stewart· Joseph Calleia· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Myrna Loy· Penny Singleton· Sam Levene· W.S. Van Dyke· William Powell· ★★★½



