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Blondie for Victory

  • 19421942
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Penny Singleton, Majelle White, and Daisy in Blondie for Victory (1942)
  • Comedy
  • Family
  • War
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and... Read allBlondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and taking care of the kids, so Dagwood pretends to join the Army. Blondie disbands the organ... Read allBlondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and taking care of the kids, so Dagwood pretends to join the Army. Blondie disbands the organization and comes home.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
187
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  • Director
    • Frank R. Strayer
  • Writers
    • Karen DeWolf(screenplay)
    • Connie Lee(screenplay)
    • Fay Kanin(story)
  • Stars
    • Penny Singleton
    • Arthur Lake
    • Larry Simms
Top credits
  • Director
    • Frank R. Strayer
  • Writers
    • Karen DeWolf(screenplay)
    • Connie Lee(screenplay)
    • Fay Kanin(story)
  • Stars
    • Penny Singleton
    • Arthur Lake
    • Larry Simms
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    • 8User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton in Blondie for Victory (1942)
    Majelle White in Blondie for Victory (1942)
    Majelle White in Blondie for Victory (1942)
    Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton in Blondie for Victory (1942)
    Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Penny Singleton, and Daisy in Blondie for Victory (1942)
    Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton in Blondie for Victory (1942)

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    Penny Singleton
    Penny Singleton
    • Blondie Bumsteadas Blondie Bumstead
    Arthur Lake
    Arthur Lake
    • Dagwood Bumsteadas Dagwood Bumstead
    Larry Simms
    Larry Simms
    • Alexander Bumsteadas Alexander Bumstead
    Daisy
    Daisy
    • Daisyas Daisy
    Majelle White
    • 'Cookie' Bumsteadas 'Cookie' Bumstead
    • (as Cookie)
    Stuart Erwin
    Stuart Erwin
    • Pvt. Herschel Smithas Pvt. Herschel Smith
    Jonathan Hale
    Jonathan Hale
    • J.C. Dithersas J.C. Dithers
    Danny Mummert
    Danny Mummert
    • Alvin Fuddleas Alvin Fuddle
    Edward Gargan
    Edward Gargan
    • Sergeantas Sergeant
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Husband Whose Wife Knits Socksas Husband Whose Wife Knits Socks
    • (uncredited)
    Georgia Backus
    Georgia Backus
    • Mrs. Jones, Housewife of Americaas Mrs. Jones, Housewife of America
    • (uncredited)
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Mr. Crumb, Former Mailmanas Mr. Crumb, Former Mailman
    • (uncredited)
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Mr. Larkin, Husband Who Nominates Dagwoodas Mr. Larkin, Husband Who Nominates Dagwood
    • (uncredited)
    Volta Boyer
    • Housewife of Americaas Housewife of America
    • (uncredited)
    Marshall Bradford
    • Minor Roleas Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Cherrington
    Ruth Cherrington
    • Housewife of Americaas Housewife of America
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Coke
    • Minor Roleas Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Dickson
    Helen Dickson
    • Housewife of Americaas Housewife of America
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Frank R. Strayer
    • Writers
      • Karen DeWolf(screenplay)
      • Connie Lee(screenplay)
      • Fay Kanin(story)
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    Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and taking care of the kids, so Dagwood pretends to join the Army. Blondie disbands the organization and comes home. —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
    • 1940s
    • american homefront
    • homefront of world war ii
    • dagvwood bumstead character
    • daisy the dog character
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    • Taglines
      • Blondie Has Dagwood in Splints...and America in Stitches!
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Family
      • War
    • Certificate
      • Passed
    • Parents guide
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The twelfth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead and Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead.
    • Quotes

      [Blondie has observer duty at the local dam]

      J.C. Dithers: A wife's place is in the home... and not by a dam site!

    • Connections
      Followed by It's a Great Life (1943)
    • Soundtracks
      Ah Loo Loo
      (uncredited)

      Written by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin

    User reviews8

    Review
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    B&D take on the Homefront
    So how do you mix tricky wartime stress with B&D's wacky humor. Fortunately, the series writers manage the trick in entertaining fashion. For younger folks, historical glimpses of the war's impact on the homefront are woven in, ordinary things like tires and sugar.

    The first part is a hoot as Blondie organizes neighborhood wives into a wartime support group, 'Housewives for Victory'. It's early 1942, just months into the big war. Naturally, B&D have to respond, while even Daisy the dog collects money for bombs. Trouble is the wives now have duties apart from housework, which means husbands have to take up the slack. In short, gender roles get muddied. Of course, for B&D the material is loaded with all kinds of potential laughs. Now if D can only figure out which food goes to people and which goes to puppies. Then too, B needs to learn First Aid without turning D into an American Mummy.

    The second half, however, moves into a more conventional slapstick, with everyone racing around in a gloomy forest, including a mysterious character with a loaded sack-- is he a saboteur or what. There's not as much flag-waving as might be expected, though the women show they can march as formidably as men. Emphasis instead is on how suburban couples learn to adjust to the new conditions. For B&D that means a lot of laughs; for contemporary viewers it's an entertaining glimpse of a stressful time.

    All in all, the programmer's a humorously revealing 70-minutes with our adorable couple facing up to the demands of a new era. The latter half may be somewhat repetitive, but overall the entry's still worth tuning in.
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    • Nov 10, 2018

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    • Release date
      • August 6, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Troubles Through Billets
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 11 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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