List of the best Arthur Lake movies: Cheer Up and Smile(1930), The Big Show-Off(1945), Blondie in the Dough(1948), Blondie on a Budget(1940), Blondie in Society(1941), Blondie's Lucky Day(1946), Blondie Knows Best(1946), Blondie Takes a Vacation(1939), Blondie Goes to College(1942), Blondie Meets the Boss(1939), Blondie Hits the Jackpot(1949), It's a Great Life(1943) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1930
76 Minutes
Arthur Lake Dixie Lee Olga Baclanova Johnny Arthur John Wayne Charles Judels
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
69 Minutes
Arthur Lake Dale Evans Lionel Stander George Meeker Paul Hurst Marjorie Manners Sammy Stein Louis Adlon Douglas Wood Emmett Lynn
Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1948
69 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Marjorie Kent Jerome Cowan Hugh Herbert Clarence Kolb Danny Mummert
Blondie's sudden windfall causes noting but trouble for the Bumstead family.
Comedy
USA
1940
72 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Rita Hayworth Larry Simms Danny Mummert Don Beddoe John Qualen Fay Helm
A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.
Comedy
USA
1941
77 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Crooks The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir Jonathan Hale Danny Mummert William Frawley Edgar Kennedy Chick Chandler
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
Comedy
USA
1946
75 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Marjorie Kent Frank Jenks Paul Harvey Charles Arnt
In order to close a business deal, Dagwood impersonates Mr. Dithers. While doing so he must avoid the nearly blind process server Jim Gray.
Comedy
USA
1946
69 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Shemp Howard Marjorie Kent Larry Simms Ludwig Donath Jerome Cowan
In order to close a business deal, Dagwood impersonates Mr. Dithers. While doing so he must avoid the nearly blind process server Jim Gray.
Comedy
1939
68 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Danny Mummert Donald Meek Elizabeth Dunne Robert Wilcox Irving Bacon
Blondie (Penny Singleton), Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) and Daisy help an elderly couple save their mountain resort.
Comedy
1942
74 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Janet Blair Jonathan Hale Adele Mara Danny Mummert Larry Parks Lloyd Bridges Esther Dale
Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) send Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) to military school, then go back to college.
Comedy
1939
75 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Dorothy Moore Jonathan Hale Stanley Brown Inez Courtney Don Beddoe
Blondie (Penny Singleton) fills in for Dagwood (Arthur Lake) at the office, so he can go on a fishing trip.
Comedy
1949
66 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Jerome Cowan Lloyd Corrigan
Blondie (Penny Singleton) tries to help when Dagwood (Arthur Lake) loses his job and is forced to work for a construction company.
Comedy
1943
75 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Hugh Herbert Jonathan Hale Danny Mummert Alan Dinehart Douglas Leavitt
Comedy
1939
68 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Gene Lockhart Ann Doran Jonathan Hale Gordon Oliver Stanley Andrews
When Dagwood's boss sends him chasing after an important contract, Blondie suspects he is chasing another woman.
Comedy
1940
69 Minutes
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Danny Mummert Edgar Kennedy Chick Chandler
Mr. Dithers puts Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) in a mansion to show buyers it's not haunted.
Romance
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Buster Collins
Gloria Swanson Ben Lyon Arthur Lake Monroe Owsley Barbara Kent Maude Eburne Henry Kolker Nella Walker
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Adventure
USA
1948
83 Minutes
Pete
In post-WW2 Florida, a former Navy diver is hired by Greek-American sponge divers who are at the mercy of a crooked sponge-exchange owner.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
103 Minutes
Harold
Betty Compson Sally O'Neil Arthur Lake Joe E. Brown Louise Fazenda William Bakewell Sam Hardy Harry Gribbon
star ingénue comedian actor producer understudy charming lighthearted amusing new jersey theater stage backstage relationships performance music romance show business financial troubles love
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Drama
USA
1937
65 Minutes
Bud
Wallace Ford June Travis Dean Jagger William Bakewell Arthur Lake Jonathan Hale William Harrigan Sarah Padden Syd Saylor Charles Trowbridge Johnny Arthur
Two rival newspaper men battle over a beautiful woman while covering an overseas civil war.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
85 Minutes
Crawford
Sally Blane Charles Starrett Hardie Albright William Farnum Irving Pichel Arthur Lake Theodore von Eltz Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Edgar Kennedy Murray Kinnell James Bradbury Jr.
The crew of the Pioneer Zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the Boulder Dam construction site.
Comedy
USA
1937
97 Minutes
Elevator Boy
Cary Grant Constance Bennett Roland Young Billie Burke Alan Mowbray Eugene Pallette Arthur Lake Hedda Hopper
ghost millionaire wife butler detective bellhop madcap charming uplifting long island, n.y. resort ghosts redemption husband/wife relationship good deeds second chance transformation quest 1930s
A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.
Comedy
USA
1927
59 Minutes
Oscar
Louise Fazenda J. Farrell MacDonald Ethel Wales Franklin Pangborn Dorothy Phillips William B. Davidson Joseph Striker Jack Stuart Arthur Lake Diane Ellis Sammy Cohen
From a 1925 hit stage play by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell about three unhappy, middle-aged housewives who teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age.