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What is Dagwood's last name? ›

Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie. He debuted in the first strip on September 8, 1930.

Originally, Blondie Boopadoop was a flighty flapper and Dagwood Bumstead was the bumbling playboy son of a millionaire industrialist. The two were married, and Dagwood was promptly disinherited from the family fortune. Blondie and Dagwood had a son in 1934 (Baby Dumpling, later called Alexander) and a daughter in 1941.

Dagwood can also often be seen napping on his own couch. He is employed as the office manager at J. C. Dithers Construction Company. Alexander Bumstead: The elder child of Blondie and Dagwood, he is in his late teens, and was formerly referred to by his pet name "Baby Dumpling".

"Blondie" is the third-longest-running newspaper comic strip that is still ongoing, after "Gasoline Alley" (1918-present) and "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" (1919-present). None has run as long as "The Katzenjammer Kids," which lasted 109 years between 1897 and 2006.

Arthur Lake, who portrayed Dagwood Bumstead in more than two dozen “Blondie” films between 1939 and 1950, died Friday after a heart attack at his home in Indian Wells, where he had been living in quiet retirement. He was 81.

Blondie and Dagwood fell in love. This was a first in comic strips. There was an engagement, and then the first wedding in comic strip history took place on February 17, 1933.

One of the reasons it came to an end was the blacklist troubles of Penny Singleton playing Blondie. While Lake lived there was no one else who could remotely be considered for the part of Dagwood and he was considered for nothing else. So in 1957 Blondie got revived for television with Pamela Britton as Blondie.

Daisy - The "purebred mongrel" family pet on the sitcom BLONDIE/NBC/1957/CBS/1968-69. Daisy lives with Dagwood Bumstead, a bumbling accident-prone architect; his level-headed wife Blondie; and their two children Alexander "Baby Dumpling" and Cookie.

It is named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip Blondie, who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to Blondie scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip in 1936.

The Blondie strip was created by Murat "Chic" Young, who'd begun drawing comics about pretty young women in 1921. After several false starts—including such strips as Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora —Young came up with Blondie and King Features began syndicating it in September of 1930.

Who was the first Blondie? ›

Did you know. The first of twenty-eight Blondie movies, all starring Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead, Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead and Larry Simms as Alexander "Baby Dumpling" Bumstead released by Columbia Pictures from 1938 to 1950.

As of June 2021, Blondie is written by Chic Young's son, Dean Young, and illustrated by John Marshall.

Dagwood's parents were opposed to the marriage, but love won out, even though Dagwood had to give up his inheritance to marry Blondie in February, 1933.

Blondie's maiden name is "Boopadoop." She originally was a flapper intent on trapping millionaire playboy Dagwood Bumstead. The couple was married in 1933 and Dagwood was promptly disinherited from the family fortune.

Jonathan Hale(1891-1966)

His best known and most memorable role was that of Dagwood Bumstead's boss, J.C. Dithers, in the "Blondie" film series, a role he assayed from the first entry (Blondie (1938)) until he left the series in 1946 having appeared in 16 of the 28 "Blondie" films.

Deborah Ann Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida. At the age of three months, she was adopted by Catherine (née Peters) and Richard Harry, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and renamed Deborah Ann Harry.

Gerald Jinx "Jerry" Mouse is an American cartoon character and one of the two titular characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical animated short films and other animated media, usually acting as the protagonist opposite his rival Tom Cat.

The Dahlia family name was found in the USA between 1880 and 1920. The most Dahlia families were found in USA in 1880. In 1880 there were 7 Dahlia families living in New York. This was 100% of all the recorded Dahlia's in USA.

Main characters. Louise "Little Lulu" Moppet – The main character and Tubby and Annie's best friend. She is very smart, but stubborn and always initiates a battle with the boys to show that the girls are as good as them.