Leave It to Blondie (1945)

Comedy

After a nearly two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to Blondie. Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead (Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake) enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers (Marjorie Weaver). The best scenes involve Dagwood's misguided efforts to cure a cold, leading to several motheaten but still reliable slapstick setpieces. Leave it to Blondie proved that the series hadn't lost its humor as Dagwood is arrested for murder, obliging our heroine to solve the case herself. Former bandleader Kirby Grant registers well as the nominal hero, while Milburn Stone scores as an imitation Walter Winchell (named "Winchester", no less!)

Updated May 9 2020

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US -

1945-02-22

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FACTS

Runtime: 74 mins Rating: 6.0

Cast

Jonathan Hale

Judge Holmes

Larry Simms

Alexander " Baby " Bumstead

Eddie Acuff

Jim

Penny Singleton

Miss Violet Sims

Arthur Lake

Elevator Boy

Danny Mummert

Alvin

Daisy

Chick Chandler

Lt. Danny Wilson