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Penny Singleton
Birthday:
15 September 1908
Birth Name:
Mariana Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty
Biography
I was the economical Claire Trevor. I just didn't want to be typed. It goes to show you how you can eat your words. I became probably the most typed actress in the world. But, at least it had some dignity. I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie. She was dumb and shrewish sometimes. But she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And tha...
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I was the economical Claire Trevor. I just didn't want to be typed. It goes to show you how you can eat your words. I became probably the most typed actress in the world. But, at least it had some dignity. I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie. She was dumb and shrewish sometimes. But she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And that's how I tried to play her.
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"They threw parts at me that Claire Trevor didn't want" - on how she broke into the movies.
"They threw parts at me that Claire Trevor didn't want" - on how she broke into the movies.
"God bless Chic Young." - on playing Blondie in the series of films based on Young's comic-strip character.
"God bless Chic Young." - on playing Blondie in the series of films based on Young's comic-strip character.
Women are really leaders. A lot of them don't even know they are leaders. But they are.
Women are really leaders. A lot of them don't even know they are leaders. But they are.
Penny Singleton
Her father was Irish Philadelphian newspaperman, Benny McNulty. He was related to Jim Farley Roosevelt's campaign managers and later Postmaster General. As a child, she sang songs at a silent movie theater. After the sixth grade she joined a touring vaudeville act called "The Kiddie Kabaret." Billed as Penny McNulty, she sang and danced with Milton Berle and Gene Raymond. Her first speaking part was in a Jack Benny Broadway show "Great Temptations".Moving to Hollywood, she took a new name after marrying dentist Lawrence Singleton. Her first name derived from having saved large amounts of penny coins. She played a tough nightclub dancer in After the Thin Man (1936) and acted/sang/danced in Swing Your Lady (1938), one of the movies Humphrey Bogart regarded as his worst. Though naturally a brunette, she bleached her hair blonde ever since she got the role of Blondie in that long-lived series.
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