Vintage Powder Room » 1938 http://vintagepowderroom.com a window into the past Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:49:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Vintage Powder Room Cinema: Blondie [1938] http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2920 http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2920#comments Sat, 21 May 2016 03:50:52 +0000 http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2920 BLONDIE

 Welcome to Vintage Powder Room Cinema!  This week’s feature is BLONDIE [1938] starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake and based on the comic strip by Chic Young.  If you’ve never heard of a Dagwood sandwich, it was named after Blondie’s hapless spouse, Dagwood Bumstead

From TCM:

On the eve of their fifth wedding anniversary, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, and their child Baby Dumpling, are in financial trouble. Blondie presses Dagwood to ask his boss Mr. Dithers for a raise because she has purchased a new set of living room furniture on credit as a surprise. Unfortunately, when Dagwood arrives at the construction company where he works, he discovers that he is being held responsible for repayment of a loan note he approved for Mr. Dither’s former secretary, Elsie. Anxious to cover the loan, Dagwood begs Mr. Dithers for a raise.

]]> http://vintagepowderroom.com/?feed=rss2&p=2920 0 Vintage Powder Room Cinema: The Lady Vanishes [1938] http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2884 http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2884#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2016 02:59:10 +0000 http://vintagepowderroom.com/?p=2884 THE LADY VANISHES

Welcome to Vintage Powder Room Cinema!  This week’s feature is THE LADY VANISHES, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and  starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty. This is one of my favorites! Enjoy the movie.

TCM says:

Aboard a train bound for London, Miss Froy, an elderly English governess, makes the acquaintance of young Iris Henderson. When Miss Froy disappears, Iris asks for the other passengers’ assistance in finding the old woman, only to have all contend that Miss Froy was never on the train.

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