Movie · 1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
“Baby Goes To School... And You Go Into Stitches!”
Released 8 November 1939 72 min Comedy More from 1939 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Robert Middlemass
as Abner Cartwright
Roy Gordon
as Mr. Mason
Olin Howland
as Encyclopedia Salesman
Gayne Whitman
as Radio Police Officer (uncredited)
Jonathan Hale
as J.C. Dithers
Irving Bacon
as Mailman
Helen Jerome Eddy
as Miss Ferguson
John Tyrrell
as 1st Dogcatcher (uncredited)
Grace Stafford
as Miss White
Arthur Lake
as Dagwood " Dag " Bumstead
Bruce Bennett
as Mason's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Walter Sande
as Policeman (uncredited)
Penny Singleton
as Blondie Bumstead
Fay Helm
as Mrs. Fuddle
Willie Best
as Hotel Janitor (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
as Dithers' Employee Reading Note (uncredited)
Richard Fiske
as Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
as Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
Eugene Anderson Jr
as Paperboy (uncredited)
Peggy Ann Garner
as Melinda Mason
Larry Simms
as Alexander " Baby " Bumstead
Danny Mummert
as Alvin Fuddle
Daisy
as Daisy
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The numbers
54years between the oldest and youngest billed
56Robert Middlemass — oldest on the call sheet
2Daisy — youngest billed
31average age of the credited cast