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An actress, Singleton was a well-known figure to two generations. From 1938 to 1950, she starred in 28 movies playing "Blondie", the ever-patient wife of Dagwood Bumstead, based on Chick Young's still-popular Blondie comic strip. She also played Blondie on the radio from 1939 to 1950. "I was thrilled but also surprised" to get the role, she once said, since "I had been a brunette all my life." Then, starting in 1962, she took on a new role for a new generation: that of wife Jane in The Jetsons cartoon series, which ran just a year until it was resurrected with the original cast in the 1980s. "I loved everything I did, big or small," she said. "It didn't matter as long as it was fun and was pleasing to people." She died November 12 after a stroke. She was 95.
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