TY - JOUR
T1 - Blondie knows best
T2 - Columbia Pictures’ Blondie series (1938–50)
AU - Verevis, Constantine
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - In 1938 Motion Picture Daily heralded the arrival of Columbia Pictures’ ‘Goodwill Gal’, Blondie, and her family, writing: ‘America’s favorite family of the “funnies” are rarin’ to give their millions of delighted followers the screen treat of the year … in a picture that wends its happy way straight to your heart!’1 An instant hit, Blondie (Frank R. Strayer, 1938) was serialized before the year was out, with Variety writing about Blondie Meets the Boss (Frank R. Strayer, 1939), ‘minute for minute and inch for inch this second film fashioned in the format of Chic Young’s comic strip matches any family series on the market laugh for laugh’.2
AB - In 1938 Motion Picture Daily heralded the arrival of Columbia Pictures’ ‘Goodwill Gal’, Blondie, and her family, writing: ‘America’s favorite family of the “funnies” are rarin’ to give their millions of delighted followers the screen treat of the year … in a picture that wends its happy way straight to your heart!’1 An instant hit, Blondie (Frank R. Strayer, 1938) was serialized before the year was out, with Variety writing about Blondie Meets the Boss (Frank R. Strayer, 1939), ‘minute for minute and inch for inch this second film fashioned in the format of Chic Young’s comic strip matches any family series on the market laugh for laugh’.2
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85096539914
U2 - 10.1093/screen/hjaa046
DO - 10.1093/screen/hjaa046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096539914
SN - 0036-9543
VL - 61
SP - 467
EP - 476
JO - Screen
JF - Screen
IS - 3
ER -