Penny Singleton
Also Known As: Dorothy McNulty, Mariana Dorothy McNulty
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American film actress. During her sixty year career, Singleton appeared in films and television, most frequently as the comic strip heroine, Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures, from 1938 until 1950, and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. She also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series, The Jetsons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Penny Singleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Adult: No
Birthday: September 15, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 12, 2003
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Blondie Takes a Vacation
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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Blondie Plays Cupid
Overview: The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-31
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Blondie for Victory
Overview: Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Overview: Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-25
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Blondie
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Blondie on a Budget
Overview: Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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Blondie in Society
Overview: Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-17
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Footlight Glamour
Overview: Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-30
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It's a Great Life
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-27
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Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Blondie's Blessed Event
Overview: Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-09
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Life with Blondie
Overview: Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-13
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Blondie's Lucky Day
Overview: Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the attention paid to Dagwood by pretty WAC Mary Jane McDermott. A whiz in business matters, Mary Jane sets up Dag in his own business, which replenishes the Bumstead coffers but which drives Blondie into a jealous frenzy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Blondie in the Dough
Overview: BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-16
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Blondie Knows Best
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Leave It to Blondie
Overview: Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Blondie's Anniversary
Overview: Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-18
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Blondie's Holiday
Overview: Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-10
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Blondie's Big Moment
Overview: Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-09
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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Overview: Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-08
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Blondie's Reward
Overview: After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-03
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Blondie's Secret
Overview: Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Blondie's Hero
Overview: Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-09
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Blondie's Big Deal
Overview: Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Beware of Blondie
Overview: Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He even finds himself in a compromising position that seriously endangers his future connubial happiness with his wife Blondie. Once again, it's up to Blondie to straighten out the mess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-13
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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After the Thin Man
Overview: Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Jetsons: The Movie
Overview: George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Swing Your Lady
Overview: Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Racket Busters
Overview: A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Love in the Rough
Overview: When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-05
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Mr. Chump
Overview: A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Young Widow
Overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Campus Cinderella
Overview: This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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Sea Racketeers
Overview: J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Go West, Young Lady
Overview: A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Rockin' with Judy Jetson
Overview: There's intergalactic trouble when the lyrics Judy Jetson wrote for teen heartthrob Sky Rocker are swapped with a secret message from a music-hating witch. Now it's up to Judy, her family, and friends to save rock-and-roll.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Secrets of an Actress
Overview: Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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Good News
Overview: A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-22
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Outside of Paradise
Overview: Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-08
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The Mad Miss Manton
Overview: When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-27
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Vogues of 1938
Overview: An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-18
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Garden of the Moon
Overview: Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Best Man
Overview: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Overview: The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's partnership in animation. This is the first animated project to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound system.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family Animation Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-17
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Howd' Ya Like That?
Overview: Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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Hard to Get
Overview: When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
Overview: Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Flintstone family.
Genres: Animation Family Science Fiction TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Show-Business at War
Overview: A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Overview: The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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It's Showtime
Overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Belle of the Night
Overview: A classic comedy short starring Penny Singleton and Frank Morgan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-15
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