Penny Singleton was synonymous with Blondie, having played that role on radio and in films throughout the 1940s. Her Penny Singleton Show was a lighthearted pitch for women's liberation, portraying Penny and her daughters as highly competent, self-sufficient females in a sea of male ineptitude. Chief bunglers, and fierce competitors for her hand, were realtor Horace Wiggins and Judge Beshomer Grundell._{John Dunning}