Dumb Dora is a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate. The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s American slang term for...
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the dumb-blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. I'm also not blonde." The author of the comic strip Blondie, Chic Young, starting with "Dumb Dora", gradually...
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drawing and storytelling styles. In 1924, he began Dumb Dora, about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked." In 1927, Young married professional...
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Look up Dora or dora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dora may stand for: Dora (Dora the Explorer), fictional character in the Dora the Explorer franchise...
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Frou-Frou and Husbands Don't Count. Hawtrey also directed 19 plays, including Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco at the Q Theatre in Richmond and, in 1945, Oflag 3,...
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performed in vaudeville as a double act, known in show business as a "Dumb Dora" routine, and epitomized by George Burns and Gracie Allen. Known professionally...
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questions featured a character named "Dumb Dora" or "Dumb Donald." These questions often began, "Dumb Dora/Donald is so dumb..." To this, in a routine taken...
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for several newspaper comic strips in the 1930s and 1950s, including Dumb Dora and Sandy Hill, as well as a series of humorous books of Southern slang...
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vernacular include 'cake-eater,' 'drug-store cowboy,' 'storm and strife,' 'Dumb Dora,' 'dumb-bell,' 'finale hopper,' 'Benny' for a hat and 'dogs' for shoes. Mansch...
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footsteps of Young's earlier "pretty girl" creations Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper...
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vernacular include 'cake-eater,' 'drug-store cowboy,' 'storm and strife,' 'Dumb Dora,' 'dumb-bell,' 'finale hopper,' 'Benny' for hat and 'dogs' for shoes. World...
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Gantz Duffy (1981–1996) by Bruce Hammond Dumb Bells (1925–1954) by Joe Cunningham and Gar Schmitt Dumb Dora (1924–1935) by Chic Young, and later Paul...
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years. He was the son of Paul Fung, a cartoonist who drew the comic strip Dumb Dora for several years. He was Chic Young's assistant on the Blondie newspaper...
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Caesar and Cleopatra Ftatateeta Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco Short 1946 The Years Between Nanny 1947 Black Narcissus...
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by Joan Gerber). Mata spoke in a high, whiny voice reminiscent of the Dumb Dora comediennes of the 1920s and '30s. Her name was a take-off on Mata Hari...
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sensibly and in her own voice, but as the series progressed, she adopted a Dumb Dora character with a higher-pitched giggle and a vacant expression, which...
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historian, lived in Perrysburg from 1968 to 1982 Bil Dwyer, cartoonist (Dumb Dora) and humorist T. J. Fatinikun, professional football player in the National...
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Up Dress up Dumb Dora 1. Absolute idiot 2. Dumbbell, especially a woman 3. Flapper Dummerer Someone who pretends to be deaf and/or dumb to appear a...
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Crock Disney Christmas Story Disney Holiday Story Donald Duck Dr. Kildare Dumb Dora Edge City Etta Kett Felix the Cat Flapper Filosofy Franklin Fibbs Gil...
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"Advertisement". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 19 March 1939. p. 90. "Dumb Dora: She's Not So Dumb". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 6 April 1941. p. 59. "Advertisement"...
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Affairs of Anatol (1921) - Orchestra Leader (uncredited) Luck (1923) - Dumb Dora - Fight Enthusiast The Blackbird (1926) - Flower Lady at Music Hall (uncredited)...
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friend Bil Dwyer when Dwyer took over the Chic Young-created comic strip Dumb Dora in 1932, and needed help while learning the routines of a daily cartoon...
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strip Bringing Up Father. Tillie was soon followed by Winnie Winkle, Dumb Dora, Dixie Dugan, Fritzi Ritz, Ella Cinders, and other familiar comic strip...
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title role in Patience... a very funny, flaky girl. ... I played her as a dumb Dora all the way through.... I found that I had a gift for slapstick humor...
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Detective nightmare Dodo and the monster Dog magician hunt Don't be a pig Dumb Dora Enchanted morning Eraser and Pencil Fire and Ice Fire fighters Foxy Wolf...
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physician Martin Dillon – musician and operatic tenor Bil Dwyer – cartoonist (Dumb Dora) and humorist Chuck Ealey – former football player for University of Toledo...
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Allen played a silly, addle-headed woman, a role often attributed to the "Dumb Dora" stereotype common in early 20th-century vaudeville comedy. Early on,...
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