Gracie was the classic Dumb Dora whom everyone adored.

Another recurring character in the questions was Dumb Dora - a joke borrowed from Match Game.

Allen played a silly, addle-headed woman, a role often attributed to the "Dumb Dora" stereotype common in early 20th-century vaudeville comedy.

'Dumb Dora, he means,' Lieutenant Byrnes said.

The elder Fung took over Dumb Dora when Chic Young left that strip.

This action led to changes, and Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora in April 1930 when Young dropped it in order to create a new strip.

And think of ninety-nine percent of the women in the Caucasian world, outside Norway, who do the Dumb Dora or Marilyn Monroe act all the time.

Hawtrey also directed as many as 19 theatre plays, including Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco at the Q Theatre in Richmond.

In 1945, Hawtrey directed the distinguished British actress Dame Flora Robson in Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco.

They performed in vaudeville as a double act, known in show business as a "Dumb Dora" routine and epitomized by George Burns and Gracie Allen.

The Dumb Dora strip came to an end in 1934, but Fung drew the character again during the early 1940s as part of an advertising campaign for Shredded Ralston cereal.

When creator Chic Young left Dumb Dora and its topper panel When Mother Was a Girl to launch Blondie, Fung became his replacement in April 1930.

Anyway, he had submitted a gag-type strip to King Features, and he got a call back saying that Paul Fung was being pulled off Dumb Dora and Dwyer had the assignment.

I played her as a dumb Dora all the way through and really had fun with the role.... My Patience grew clumsier and clumsier with each performance, and audiences seemed to like her....

The Paul Fung Cartoons collection at Syracuse University has 46 originals from Dumb Dora, including 10 Sunday strips and 36 daily strips, plus four originals from When Mother Was a Girl.

Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier "pretty girl" creations Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop-a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls.