Word: dagwood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...belongs to Lucille, a redheaded, uninhibited comedienne who takes pratfalls and pie-throwings in her stride, manages to add an extra wriggle or a rubber-faced doubletake to each funny line. Cuban-born Desi Arnaz gets enough masculine authority into his role to keep Lucy from degenerating into a Dagwood and Blondie farce. Three writers turn out scripts that bring flashes of grown-up humor to such standard subjects as amateur theatricals and wedding anniversaries. Says Lucille: "We try to be an average married couple getting into unaverage situations...
...Blondie" had earned her rest. In 28 feature-length movies since 1938, lunkheaded Dagwood (Arthur Lake) and his indulgent wife (Penny Singleton) had returned Columbia a 33⅓% profit on a gross of close to $12 million. Even "Daisy," the family dog, had made some $500,000 for its owner...
...Dagwood, Dagwood, do you love Blondie...
Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolt-a type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes with took). Competing with such notable professional chumps as Dennis Day, Ozzie Nelson and Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Young was only a passable schnook in his 1944-47 radio show, a fair-to-medium specimen in his movie roles (Margie, Chicken Every Sunday, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College). But in his carefully planned opening TV show for Esso Standard Oil Co., aired in the East last week...
...Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...