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Penny Singleton Biography

Birth Name:Mariana Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty

Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession Actress, Soundtrack

Fast Facts

  • In 1974, she received an honorary degree from St․ John's University
  • In Janurary 1941, she got married to producer Robert Sparks
  • Was best known for portraying the character Blondie Bumstead
  • In 1966, she led a strike of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes
  • In 1969, she became president of the American Guild of Variety Artists
  • Made her Broadway debut in the 1925 musical "Sky High․"
  • Was the first female president of an American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) union