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| Director: | Frank R. Strayer | 
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| Writer: | Richard Flournoy | 
| Staring: | 
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 08, 1939 | 
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| Director: | Frank R. Strayer | 
| Writer: | Richard Flournoy | 
| Genres: | Comedy | 
| Keywords | dog | 
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Jul 30, 2025 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| 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) | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| Frank R. Strayer | Director | 
| George Bassman | Original Music Composer | 
| Chic Young | Characters | 
| Ben Oakland | Original Music Composer | 
| Gregory Stone | Original Music Composer | 
| Henry Freulich | Director of Photography | 
| Otto Meyer | Editor | 
| Jerome Pycha Jr. | Art Direction | 
| Robert Kalloch | Costume Design | 
| Richard Flournoy | Screenplay | 
| Robert J. Schiffer | Makeup Artist | 
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction | 
| Leigh Harline | Original Music Composer | 
| Name | Title | 
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| Robert Sparks | Producer | 
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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, trouble ... d girl and tries to help her walk again.