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Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 –
November 12, 2003) was a Hollywood actress best
known for her role in the series of motion
pictures and subsequent radio comedy based on the
comic strip Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie.

== Biography ==

Born Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and known as Dorothy
McNulty, she was the daughter of an Irish-American
newspaperman, Benny McNulty. She began her show
business career as a child by singing at a silent
movie theater, and toured in vaudeville as part of
an act called The Kiddie Kabaret. She sang and
danced with Milton Berle and Gene Raymond, and
appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's Great
Temptations. 

She married a dentist, Lawrence Singleton, in
1937, and moved to Hollywood, where she later
became billed as Penny Singleton. They had one
child, a daughter, and divorced in 1939.  She
married Robert Sparks in 1941. They had one child,
a daughter. Sparks died on July 22, 1963.

She appeared as a nightclub dancer in After the
Thin Man (still credited under her real name). She
was cast opposite Arthur Lake (actor)|Arthur Lake
(as Dagwood Bumstead|Dagwood) in the feature film
Blondie in 1938, based on the Blondie (comic
strip)|comic strip by Chic Young. They repeated
their roles on a radio comedy beginning in 1939,
and in guest apperances on other radio shows. As
Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, they proved so
popular that a succession of 27 sequels were made
from 1938 until 1950 (the radio show ended the
same year). Husband Robert Sparks produced a
number of these sequels. Singleton dyed her
brunette hair blonde for the rest of her life. 

She was active in union affairs and was the first
woman president of an AFL-CIO union. She led a
strike by the Radio City Rockettes.

She became familiar to television audiences as the
voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The
Jetsons, which originally aired from 1962 until
1963, reprising the role for a syndicated revival
which (from 1985 through 1988) and assorted
specials, records, and Jetsons: The Movie. She
also toured in nightclubs and roadshows of plays
and musicals.

Singleton died in Sherman Oaks, California
following a stroke at the age of 95, and was
interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los
Angeles, California.

==Filmography==

*Good News (musical)|Good News - 1930
*Love in the Rough - 1930
*After the Thin Man - 1936
*Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 - 1937
*Sea Racketeers - 1937
*Swing Your Lady - 1938
*Outside of Paradise - 1938
*Racket Busters - 1938
*Men Are Such Fools - 1938
*Mr. Chump - 1938
*Boy Meets Girl - 1938
*Secrets of an Actress - 1938
*Campus Cinderella - 1938
*Garden of the Moon - 1938
*Mad Miss Manton, The - 1938
*Hard to Get (1938 movie)|Hard to Get - 1938 
*Blondie (movie)|Blondie - 1938 - her first
appearance on film as Blondie Bumstead
*Blondie Meets the Boss - 1939
*Blondie Takes a Vacation - 1939
*Blondie Brings Up Baby - 1939
*Blondie on a Budget - 1940
*Blondie Has Servant Trouble - 1940
*Blondie Plays Cupid - 1940
*Blondie Goes Latin - 1941
*Blondie in Society - 1941
*Go West, Young Lady - 1941 (a non-Blondie film)
*Blondie Goes to College - 1942
*Blondie's Blessed Event - 1942
*Blondie for Victory - 1942
*It's a Great Life - 1943
*Footlight Glamour - 1943
*Leave It to Blondie - 1945
*Young Widow - 1946 (a non-Blondie film)
*Life with Blondie - 1946
*Blondie's Lucky Day - 1946
*Blondie Knows Best - 1946
*Blondie's Big Moment - 1947
*Blondie's Holiday - 1947
*Blondie in the Dough - 1947
*Blondie's Anniversary - 1947
*Blondie's Reward - 1948
*Blondie's Secret - 1948
*Blondie's Big Deal - 1949
*Blondie Hits the Jackpot - 1949
*Blondie's Hero - 1950
*Beware of Blondie - 1950
*Jetsons: The Movie - 1990

== External links ==

* imdb|id=0802325|name=Penny Singleton

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Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 –
November 12, 2003) was a Hollywood actress best
known for her role in the series of motion
pictures and subsequent radio comedy based on the
comic strip Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie.

== Biography ==

Born Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and known as Dorothy
McNulty, she was the daughter of an Irish-American
newspaperman, Benny McNulty. She began her show
business career as a child by singing at a silent
movie theater, and toured in vaudeville as part of
an act called The Kiddie Kabaret. She sang and
danced with Milton Berle and Gene Raymond, and
appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's Great
Temptations. 

She married a dentist, Lawrence Singleton, in
1937, and moved to Hollywood, where she later
became billed as Penny Singleton. They had one
child, a daughter, and divorced in 1939.  She
married Robert Sparks in 1941. They had one child,
a daughter. Sparks died on July 22, 1963.

She appeared as a nightclub dancer in After the
Thin Man (still credited under her real name). She
was cast opposite Arthur Lake (actor)|Arthur Lake
(as Dagwood Bumstead|Dagwood) in the feature film
Blondie in 1938, based on the Blondie (comic
strip)|comic strip by Chic Young. They repeated
their roles on a radio comedy beginning in 1939,
and in guest apperances on other radio shows. As
Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, they proved so
popular that a succession of 27 sequels were made
from 1938 until 1950 (the radio show ended the
same year). Husband Robert Sparks produced a
number of these sequels. Singleton dyed her
brunette hair blonde for the rest of her life. 

She was active in union affairs and was the first
woman president of an AFL-CIO union. She led a
strike by the Radio City Rockettes.

She became familiar to television audiences as the
voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The
Jetsons, which originally aired from 1962 until
1963, reprising the role for a syndicated revival
which (from 1985 through 1988) and assorted
specials, records, and Jetsons: The Movie. She
also toured in nightclubs and roadshows of plays
and musicals.

Singleton died in Sherman Oaks, California
following a stroke at the age of 95, and was
interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los
Angeles, California.

==Filmography==

*Good News (musical)|Good News - 1930
*Love in the Rough - 1930
*After the Thin Man - 1936
*Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 - 1937
*Sea Racketeers - 1937
*Swing Your Lady - 1938
*Outside of Paradise - 1938
*Racket Busters - 1938
*Men Are Such Fools - 1938
*Mr. Chump - 1938
*Boy Meets Girl - 1938
*Secrets of an Actress - 1938
*Campus Cinderella - 1938
*Garden of the Moon - 1938
*Mad Miss Manton, The - 1938
*Hard to Get (1938 movie)|Hard to Get - 1938 
*Blondie (movie)|Blondie - 1938 - her first
appearance on film as Blondie Bumstead
*Blondie Meets the Boss - 1939
*Blondie Takes a Vacation - 1939
*Blondie Brings Up Baby - 1939
*Blondie on a Budget - 1940
*Blondie Has Servant Trouble - 1940
*Blondie Plays Cupid - 1940
*Blondie Goes Latin - 1941
*Blondie in Society - 1941
*Go West, Young Lady - 1941 (a non-Blondie film)
*Blondie Goes to College - 1942
*Blondie's Blessed Event - 1942
*Blondie for Victory - 1942
*It's a Great Life - 1943
*Footlight Glamour - 1943
*Leave It to Blondie - 1945
*Young Widow - 1946 (a non-Blondie film)
*Life with Blondie - 1946
*Blondie's Lucky Day - 1946
*Blondie Knows Best - 1946
*Blondie's Big Moment - 1947
*Blondie's Holiday - 1947
*Blondie in the Dough - 1947
*Blondie's Anniversary - 1947
*Blondie's Reward - 1948
*Blondie's Secret - 1948
*Blondie's Big Deal - 1949
*Blondie Hits the Jackpot - 1949
*Blondie's Hero - 1950
*Beware of Blondie - 1950
*Jetsons: The Movie - 1990

== External links ==

* imdb|id=0802325|name=Penny Singleton