Brazilian Cotillion - Blondie Goes Latin!

Ruth Terry sings "You Can't Cry On My Shoulder". Then Dagwood (Arthur Lake) beats out a conga, "Brazilian Cotillion", while Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Manuel Rodríguez (Tito Guízar) sing and dance! This is one of a handful of awesome conga sequences in movies in the early '40s and one of my personal favorites! I love Blondie's dress and ruffles as she conga's towards the camera!! A great example of the cartoon-like quality that transfered well from strip to movie--Blondie's wardrobe!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blondie
• 1940s
• musical
• conga
• arthur lake
• penny singleton
• tito guízar
• ruth terry
• drag
• drums
• latin
• dagwood

[trevor40]

Do you have the scene where Blondie is singing on the deck of the ship?

[gregoryagogo]

@trevor40 The movie is very cheap on amazon!

[gregoryagogo]

@trevor40 I s'pose I can rip it... got lots of things on my plate rght now.. will get to it asap...

[trevor40]

Do you have "Trees" that Penny sang to White Tie Chin up For Dinner?

[gregoryagogo]

@trevor40 She sang it to a dog! I sent you a link and I'll be uploading it here...

[mecario]

There wasn't a moment while I watched that that I didn't have a smile on my face... I still do, lol

[gregoryagogo]

@mecario That's the point! :)

[weathered79]

damn it i've had this runnin through my head for days now i love blondie

[ricknkay]

I love the conga numbers from movies of this era.

[trevor40]

@gregoryagogo

I know, I have had the movie for years :-) but I dont know how to upload anything and you have always seemed very helpful

[charcas67]

@143AC She was also a longtime President of the Union for nightclub performers.

[charcas67]

@143AC Both the Blondie films and the 3 Stooges shorts were made at Columbia and as a cost saving measure, music from one movie would often be reused in another studio production. Another instance: the song Anywhere, which was performed in the 1945 Rita Hayworth Columbia film Tonight and Every Night, was reused as dance music for Hayworth and Glenn Ford the following year in Gilda, also a Columbia production.