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ACTOR
Penny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsDaisy
DIRECTOR
Frank R. Strayer
SYNOPSICS
Blondie Goes to College (1942) is a English movie. Frank R. Strayer has directed this movie. Penny Singleton,Arthur Lake,Larry Simms,Daisy are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1942. Blondie Goes to College (1942) is considered one of the best Action,Adventure,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
Dagwood decides to go to college. Blondie goes along with him, keeping their marriage a secret. They send Baby Dumpling off to military school where he becomes top sergeant. Blondie is hounded by the campus stud and Dagwood makes the rowing team. It is revealed that a new child is on the way.
Blondie Goes to College (1942) Reviews
Blondie & Dagwood decide to go to college.
This is the 10th film (of 28) in the Blondie film series. The Bumsteads go to the football game. But Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) is a bit disappointed. The seats are right in the center of the goal posts and he can't see a thing. But Baby does manage to catch the special football. Dagwood (Arthur Lake) decides he wants to go to college for the first time. Later, Blondie (Penny Singleton) wants Dagwood to stop dreaming and not be late for work this morning. Blondie decides to have a talk with Mr. Dithers. Dithers thinks it's a great idea for Dagwood to go to college to get it out of his system. He thinks Blondie should go too. But Blondie has another idea. She's going to have another baby. Dagwood doesn't know yet. Lloyd Bridges plays a college student. Sid Melton plays "Mouse". Notice the scene when Dagwood tells Mrs. Dill that he dreamed he was a baby, and then he yawns. Notice Larry Simms laughing abit at Arthur. The next film in the series is BLONDIE'S BLESSED EVENT.
The Bumsteads recapture their youth
BLONDIE GOES TO COLLEGE (Columbia, 1942), directed by Frank R. Strayer, is a so-so entry to the tenth installment of the highly popular movie series. Instead of opening this segment in typical fashion at the breakfast table with Blondie (Penny Singleton) telling husband Dagwood (Arthur Lake) that he's late for work, thus, having Dag rushing out the door and running into the neighborhood postman (often played by Irving Bacon), the story begins at a football stadium where, after watching a scored touchdown with his wife, son and dog Daisy, Dagwood gets the urge to want to return to school and get a college education. Blondie (who is pregnant with their second child but keeps it a secret from Dagwood for the time being), is against the idea, and after discussing this with Dagwood's boss, Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale), he convinces her to let Dagwood take some time off from work and enroll in order to get the college bug out of his system. Taking Dithers's advice, the Bumsteads enroll at Leighton College, and leave their young son, Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) at a military school. While at Leighton, Blondie and Dagwood pose as a single couple, thus having Blondie chased by the football hero (Larry Parks) and Dagwood getting involved with a pretty co-ed (Janet Blair). Bright and original idea becomes a bit mediocre at times, but the story does include some funny moments, especially with Dagwood wanting to participate in athletic sports, and failing in almost all of them. One very funny moment that stands in mind for me is when Blondie and Dagwood are in Professor Mixwell's (Cliff Nazarro) classroom where the instructor speaks in nothing but double-talk. Mixwell is "understood" by the other students but confuses Blondie, though Dagwood tries to impress Blondie by pretending to know what Mixwell is saying by "jotting down notes" and looking quite attentive. Otherwise, the rest of the movie is routine with few laughs. The movie closes with the Bumsteads leaving college with Blondie singing "We'll Remember Leighton." Series regular Danny Mummert returns as Baby Dumpling's next door neighbor friend, Alvin Fuddow, who accompanies him in military school, and of course, the Bumstead dog, Daisy, adding some humor. It's also interesting seeing then unknown actors on the career rise being featured in this film episode, particularly Larry Parks (of the 1946 hit "The Jolson Story") and Janet Blair. Then there's a tall and thin Lloyd Bridges as one of the college students; Adele Mara as Babs; and future TV character actor Sid Melton (the carpenter of TV's GREEN ACRES of the 1960s) appearing as "Mouse." Formerly shown on the American Movie Classics cable channel from 1996 to 2001, BLONDIE GOES TO COLLEGE can be found on either video cassette or the DVD package. Next installment: BLONDIE'S BLESSED EVENT (1942). (**1/2)
Sweethearts of Sigma-Foo
Okay, in a strictly logical world, sending B&D to college makes little sense. But this is movie world, where it's contrived situations that count, whether it's good guys winning every gun battle or B&D taking a respite from 40's suburbia. So it's off to college for our comic strip heroes and military school for baby Dumpling and Daisy. Maybe Dagwood will get a promotion for his college effort. And what could be more comically promising than an addled Dagwood among the advanced learning. Now if he can only follow the double-talk origin of the word 'survive', he might even pass etymology class. Then there's the rowing team where he can't stay upright, and football practice where the basic concepts rival etymology. Frankly, I got a lot of laughs out of his good-natured flops. Then happily we can add eye candy with June Blair as Daggie's aggressive car buddy, plus other coed lollipops from the 40's. Also, mustn't forget coed Blondie who's grabbed by handsome big-man-on-campus, Larry Parks. And if that's not enough, she's quickly conscripted into the top campus sorority. Looks like the Bumstead household may be in trouble, except this is the movies, so thankfully it's back to suburbia once the crop of college laughs are harvested. No, the entry may not be the series best, but it's hard to beat comedic actors Lake and Singleton. Plus the series concept of a loving family with a wacky husband, a plucky wife, and an unlucky mailman practically guarantees chuckles. (In passing-I may be wrong, but having Baby Dumpling in military school may well reflect the patriotic urgency of the 1942 production period.)
Actually both Blondie and Dagwood go to college!
Penny Singleton (Blondie), Arthur Lake (Dagwood), Larry Simms (Baby Dumpling), Janet Blair (Laura Wadsworth), Jonathan Hale (J. C. Dithers), Danny Mummert (Alvin Fuddle), Larry Parks (Rusty Bryant), Adele Mara (Babs Connelly), Sidney Melton (Mouse Gifford), Andrew Tombes (J. J. Wadsworth), Esther Dale (Mrs Dill), Lloyd Bridges (Ben "Fishface" Dixon), Emmett Vogan (Coach Hartley), and "Daisy". Director: FRANK R. STRAYER. Screenplay: Lou Breslow. Story: Warren Wilson, Clyde Bruckman. Based on the comic strip Blondie by Chic Young. Photography: Henry Freulich. Film editor: Otto Meyer. Art director: Lionel Banks. Music director: Morris W. Stoloff. Music associate: Jerome Pycha Jr. Producer: Robert Sparks. Copyright 15 January 1942 by Columbia Pictures Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 15 January 1942. Australian release: 23 July 1942. 8 reels. 6,764 feet. 75 minutes. U.K. release title: The BOSS SAID NO. SYNOPSIS: Actually both Blondie and Dagwood go to college, enrolling as singles, with predictable results. NOTES: Number 10 in the 28-picture series. COMMENT: The tenth film in the series — and the first in which Irving Bacon does not appear to carry on his famous running gag. Also, one notices a deterioration in the production values of this one. A great amount of space is devoted to newsreel footage, and the art direction is not nearly as lavish — though there is some fine photography by Henry Freulich. The screenplay by Lou Breslow is very thin. Although agreeably played, it's rather slackly directed and edited. "Daisy" has little to do in this one, but the supporting cast is certainly of interest. Top performances are contributed by Larry Parks and Janet Blair. Right up to the final moment it seems Miss Singleton is going to pass up an opportunity to sing. She does finally, in an extended tracking shot director Strayer doubtless hoped would provide a stimulating conclusion. The intention was there but it doesn't quite come off, as Lake mugs so blatantly the mood is dissipated.
The college experience
For reasons I still can't fathom both Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton decide they need to go back to college and further their education. Both have missed the college experience so Dagwood and Blondie park Baby Dumpling in a military boarding school and head to the halls of dear old ivy. Columbia Pictures more than most studios used the movie series as part of their programming and the Blondie films afforded them the opportunity to exhibit some of their young hopefuls. In the student body are people like Larry Parks, Sid Melton, Lloyd Bridges, Janet Blair and Adele Mara. Parks is the campus jock who sets out after Blondie and the beautiful Janet Blair is attracted to Dagwood God knows why. Blair's father is Andrew Toombes who is rich and who the Dithers Construction company would like to land as a client. Dagwood always had phenomenal charm, or luck, or something that always landed these clients and usually saved his job throughout the series. This one has some good moments with Dagwood trying out for many collegiate sports. Best is him blowing the big crew race when he stands up in the canoe and tips over. He's not a big man on campus after that. Good entry in the Blondie series.