Blondie Goes Latin

Blondie Goes Latin is an odd one out of the Blondie series. On the one hand it has one of the stupidest plots in the entire series. On the other hand it's a nice musical treat with numbers by Tito Guizar, Ruth Terry and Penny Singleton herself. This is the only one of the Blondie series that could qualify as a musical.

The Bumsteads including Baby Dumpling and Daisy the Dog all go on a cruise courtesy of Mr. Dithers. I can't quite believe that Jonathan Hale craves the Bumstead company more than his wife, but each marriage is surely unique. But then Dagwood has to stay in the office to meet with an important client so Hale takes Penny Singleton, child, and dog without her husband. To top that off Arthur Lake is held up getting off the boat and takes refuge with Kirby Grant's Ship Orchestra and their singer Ruth Terry. Their drummer didn't make it so Lake pitches in on the drums.

These thing usually only happen to the Ricardos. I wonder if they ever ran into the Bumsteads?

The whole thing is too stupid to make this one of the better films in the Blondie series. But the musical numbers are nice and we get to see Arthur Lake in drag.

Dagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song and dance routines.

What a musical delight ! I just saw this on the Movies! Cable Chanel, and waited with baited breath to see the credits at the end to find out who these great singing performers were.... I assumed Penny Singleton's singing voice was dubbed by what they used to call a "studio singer", like Marni Nixon...and also, Ruth Terry who I've only known as an actress in the Westerns, never heard she was a singer....but alas, no credits were shown at the end, so I came here in hopes that some of the Reviews would give this info.....and I find out, that both ladies did their own singing! WOW ! Penny has a magnificent operatic voice, and Ruth reminded me very much of Judy Garland! And Arthur Lake is a virtuoso on the drums! Does it get any better? Yes.....because, as usual, the movie was stolen by Baby Dumpling and DAISY! I think Macauley Culkin would have had a run for his money if Larry Simms had shown up for the Home Alone audition....and that DAISY ! DOUBLE WOW ! He would be a winner on " America's Got Talent " for sure !

The plot is really silly, but with all that talent & cuteness, who cares ??

This is the eighth in the Blondie movie series. In this one, the Bumsteads go on a cruise to South America with Mr. Dithers-mainly so the boss can rest. There's also a funny scene involving the mailman, the cab driver, shaving cream, and running. And another when-after it's established Dagwood has to come home to take care of business-the others think they're seeing him on the boat and, oh, watch the movie if you want to find out. Anyway, the whole thing is an excuse to showcase musical numbers of Kirby Grant, Ruth Terry, Tito Guizar, with Arthur Lake displaying his drum skills, Penny Singleton her singing and dancing prowess, and even the boy playing Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) warbling a little with Janet Burston who was also doing that in the M-G-M-produced-only Our Gang comedies during this time. In summary, Blondie Goes Latin was one of the most enjoyable of the series! P.S. By this time, Ms. Singleton had fallen in love and eventually married producer Robert Sparks so she might have influenced this change of pace! And the person credited with writing the original story is Quinn Martin-presumably the same one eventually responsible for producing "The Fugitive", "Cannon", "The Streets of San Francisco", and "Barnaby Jones".

This is a musical entry in the Blondie franchise of which there are quite a few from the 1930's thru 1950. This was a popular comic strip turned live action. Both our leads...Blondie and Dagwood participate in the musical numbers, Blondie sings and dances while Dagwood plays the drums.

In this episode Dagwood's boss is taking a Latin cruise to rest and he takes Dagwood and his family with him...except at the last minute Dagwood has to stay in order to take care of some business...but he never makes it off the ship and gets accidentally mistaken for a band member...and the band needs him as a drummer to fulfill their contract. This ends up creating some high jinx as Dagwood tries to avoid his boss, while reassuring Blondie that he is ok.

With some beautiful Latin preludes and musical numbers.

A fun Blondie with music and Latin flair, definitely worth watching. Very Family friendly.