Blondie Brings Up Baby

On his first day at school, six-year-old Baby Dumpling, the son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, vanishes from sight. Dagwood launches a frantic citywide search to locate the boy. Meanwhile, Baby Dumpling spends a safe, pleasant afternoon with the poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who—with her new playmate's help—rises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.

Director(s)

Frank R. Strayer

Cast & Crew

Robert Middlemass

Abner Cartwright

Walter Sande

Policeman (uncredited)

Olin Howland

Encyclopedia Salesman

Ralph Dunn

Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Milburn Morante

Man Directing Postman (uncredited)

Betty Roadman

Motherly Woman (uncredited)

Joe Palma

2nd Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Fay Helm

Mrs. Fuddle

Helen Jerome Eddy

Miss Ferguson

Selmer Jackson

Tom Malcolm (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Police Capt. James (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Mailman

Harry Strang

Bailiff (uncredited)

Bruce Bennett

Mason's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Roy Gordon

Mr. Mason

Ian Wolfe

Police Judge (uncredited)

Jay Eaton

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

John Tyrrell

1st Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale

J.C. Dithers

Arthur Lake

Dagwood " Dag " Bumstead

Jack Rice

Detective with Mason (uncredited)

Grace Stafford

Miss White

Frank R. Strayer

Sally Payne

Young Woman (uncredited)

Penny Singleton

Blondie Bumstead

Larry Simms

Alexander " Baby " Bumstead

Robert Sterling

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Ed Randolph

3rd Dogcatcher (uncredited)

Victor Potel

Lars (uncredited)

David Newell

Tall Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Willie Best

Hotel Janitor (uncredited)

Daisy

Peggy Ann Garner

Melinda Mason

Gayne Whitman

Radio Police Officer (uncredited)

Stanley Brown

Dithers' Employee Reading Note (uncredited)

Danny Mummert

Alvin Fuddle

Eugene Anderson Jr

Paperboy (uncredited)

Mary Jane Carey

Mary (uncredited)

Richard Fiske

Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

Madelon Grey

Governess (uncredited)

Details

GenresComedy

Runtime1h 12 mins

Released on08 Nov 1939

Languageen

Produced InUnited States of America

Reviews

talisencrw

9/10

This was a very enjoyable entry of the series for me, as Blondie, hoodwinked by a salesman of questionable integrity that her son Baby Dumpling has a genius I.Q., instantly tries to enlist him in Grade 3 of the local school. It sports a very touching ending in which the boy befriends a rich, troubled girl and tries to help her walk again.