Penny Singleton
Penny Singleton ( born September 15, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † 12 November 2003 in Los Angeles, California; actually Mariana Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty ) was an American singer and film actress.
Life
Penny Singleton, a native Mariana Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty was born in 1908 as a subsidiary of Irish -born journalist Benny McNulty in Philadelphia. My uncle was the American politician and Postmaster General James Farley temporary. As a child she sang songs in silent movie theaters her hometown and joined vaudeville shows, among others, with Milton Berle on. After she attended the Alex McClue School and briefly studied at Columbia University, she decided to become an actress. In 1925, she was as Dorothy McNulty made her Broadway debut in the musical Sky High with music by Robert Stolz. Her first speaking role was in 1926 opposite Jack Benny in The Great Temptations. Four years later, she stood for Belle of the Night ( 1930) alongside Frank Morgan for the first time in front of the movie camera. In her second film Good News she repeated her role she had played in the 1927 eponymous musical on Broadway. After another movie she was until the mid-1930s for the time being no longer seen on the screen. During this time she worked as a nightclub singer and dancer. In 1936, she starred in The Thin Man, Case 2 ( After the Thin Man) with William Powell and Myrna Loy again in a movie. This was followed by small productions such as the film comedy Swing Your Lady (1938 ), in which Humphrey Bogart from her received his first screen kiss.
After 1937 the dentist Laurence Singleton married, she took her stage name Penny Singleton. As Columbia Pictures in 1938 was looking for a suitable actress for the film adaptation of Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie to Singleton, who was actually a brunette dyed their hair blond to audition for the title role of Blondie Bumstead. They eventually got the role and was 1938-1950, Arthur Lake to see when her husband Dagwood Bumstead in 28 episodes of the Blondie film series. Also, the radio played Singleton and Lake the Bumstead in an eponymous series of radio plays.
During the 1950s, Penny Singleton Hollywood turned his back and instead toured again as a nightclub singer by the United States. Not until the early 1960s, she worked as an actress again. From 1962 to 1985, she lent her voice of Jane Jetson in the American animated series The Jetsons ( The Jetsons ). As a member and later Vice - President of the American Guild of Variety Artists, an artists' association, they fought for better working conditions and higher salaries of professional dancers and directed to this end in 1967 a successful strike at Radio City Roquette against the operators of Radio City Music Hall in New York.
After her divorce from Laurence Singleton in 1939 she married the film producer Robert Sparks in 1941, which was also responsible for the Blondie series, and with whom she lived until his death in 1963. From two marriages each went forth a daughter, Dorothy (married Henry) and Susan Sparks ( b. 1942 ). Penny Singleton died in 2003 at the effects of a stroke in Los Angeles. She was buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery local. For her contributions to radio and film, she received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( 6811 Hollywood Boulevard, and 6547 Hollywood Boulevard ).