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Penny Singleton

Penny Singleton

Show Count: 36
Series Count: 1
Role: Old Time Radio Star
Born: September 15, 1908
Old Time Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: November 12, 2003, Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
An American film actress. Born Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania (commonly known as Dorothy McNulty) she was the daughter of an Irish-American newspaperman Benny McNulty — from whom she received the nickname "Penny" because she was "as bright as a penny".

During her sixty year career Singleton appeared as the comic strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950.

Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons.

She died in November 2003 at the age of 95 of Lung failure.

Source: Wikipedia

BlondieBlondie
Show Count: 44
Broadcast History: 3 July 1939 to 26 June 1944, 21 July 1944 to 1 September 1944, 13 August 1944 to 26 September 1948, 6 October 1948 to 29 June 1949 and 6 October 1949 to 6 July 1950
Cast: Penny Singleton, Ann Rutherford, Alice White, Patricia Vann Cleve, Arthur Lake, Leone Ledoux, Tommy Cook, Larry Sims, Bobby Ellis, Jeffrey Silver, Marlene Aames, Norma Jean Nilsson, Joan Rae, Hanley Stafford, Elvia Allman, Frank Nelson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Harry Lang, Dix Davis, Mary Jane Croft, Veola Vonn, Lurene Tuttle, Rosemary DeCamp, Ed MacDonald, Hans Conried
Producer: Ashmead Scott
Broadcast: 24th December 1950
Added: Dec 22 2005
Broadcast: September 2, 1947
Added: Sep 20 2015
Broadcast: 9th March 1944
Added: Aug 31 2007