Blondie Brings Up Baby

6.5
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 72 min
  • Premiere: 1939. November 8.

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.

Discover

Penny Singleton

Blondie Bumstead

Arthur Lake

Dagwood " Dag " Bumstead

Larry Simms

Alexander " Baby " Bumstead

Daisy

Daisy

Danny Mummert

Alvin Fuddle

Jonathan Hale

J.C. Dithers

Robert Middlemass

Abner Cartwright

Olin Howland

Encyclopedia Salesman

Fay Helm

Mrs. Fuddle

Peggy Ann Garner

Melinda Mason

Roy Gordon

Mr. Mason

Grace Stafford

Miss White

Helen Jerome Eddy

Miss Ferguson

Irving Bacon

Mailman

Eugene Anderson Jr

Paperboy (uncredited)

Bruce Bennett

Mason's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Willie Best

Hotel Janitor (uncredited)

Stanley Brown

Dithers' Employee Reading Note (uncredited)

Mary Jane Carey

Mary (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Jay Eaton

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Richard Fiske

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Madelon Grey

Governess (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Police Capt. James (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson

Tom Malcolm (uncredited)

Milburn Morante

Man Directing Postman (uncredited)

David Newell

Tall Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Joe Palma

2nd Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Sally Payne

Young Woman (uncredited)

Victor Potel

Lars (uncredited)

Ed Randolph

3rd Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Jack Rice

Detective with Mason (uncredited)

Betty Roadman

Motherly Woman (uncredited)

Walter Sande

Policeman (uncredited)

Robert Sterling

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Harry Strang

Bailiff (uncredited)

John Tyrrell

1st Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Gayne Whitman

Radio Police Officer (uncredited)

Ian Wolfe

Police Judge (uncredited)

Art

Jerome Pycha Jr.

Art Direction

Lionel Banks

Art Direction

Camera

Henry Freulich

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Artist

Robert Kalloch

Costume Design

Directing

Editing

Otto Meyer

Editor

Production

Robert Sparks

Producer

Sound

Ben Oakland

Original Music Composer

Gregory Stone

Original Music Composer

George Bassman

Original Music Composer

Leigh Harline

Original Music Composer

Writing

Richard Flournoy

Screenplay

Chic Young

Characters

Art

Jerome Pycha Jr.

Art Direction

Lionel Banks

Art Direction

Camera

Henry Freulich

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Artist

Robert Kalloch

Costume Design

Directing

Editing

Otto Meyer

Editor

Production

Robert Sparks

Producer

Sound

Ben Oakland

Original Music Composer

Gregory Stone

Original Music Composer

George Bassman

Original Music Composer

Leigh Harline

Original Music Composer

Writing

Richard Flournoy

Screenplay

Chic Young

Characters