Blondie (TV Series) The Glamour Girl (1957) User Reviews

Dagwood...the great lover?!?!

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 15 November 2019]

Barbara Nichols (a VERY familiar bombshell on TV in the 50s and 60s) plays Vivian Valentine, a famous movie star. In order to drum up attention for herself, she tells reporters that she's in town to meet her old high school sweetheart....Dagwood. This isn't true at all...but dopey Dagwood eventually convinces himself that she must have been his girlfriend long ago. Blondie, not surprisingly, is NOT pleased.

This is one of the better episodes of the series. I especially liked the very cute ending....and it made me smile. Well worth seeing.

SALUTE TO BARBARA NICHOLS

[tcchelsey · 10/10 · 12 February 2023]

Barbara Nichols. A staple in tv for decades, without too much surprise worked as a model in her early years before entering movies, and at a time was considered a rival to Marilyn Monroe. She was a fun actress and generally played sly blondes with lots of tricks up her sleeves. A member of the BATMAN cult alumnus in the 1960s, playing Maid Marion in a few episodes. Here she plays Vivian Valentine, a movie star linked to Dagwood in a wild publicity stunt --they were old lovers! This has shades of BLONDIE ON A BUDGET (1940), where Dagwood's ex girl friend was Rita Hayworth, causing confusion and of course jealousy for Blondie. Watch for the wacky vignettes with Dagwood in a tux and also playing a football star. Familiar character actor Eddie Ryder plays Stanley, Nichol's press agent who came up with the goofy scheme. Also look for sci fi cult actress Pamela Duncan in a small role. Hal Roach, Jr., son of the legendary producer, produced this tv show, which was one of the last to be filmed at his father's Culver City studio. The lot was torn down in the early 1960s to make way for expanding strip malls, condos and about everything else southern California is famous for. The tv series is finally on dvd.

Dagwood, the preeminent ladies man

[JordanThomasHall · 5/10 · 28 November 2018]

Voluptuous movie star Vivian Valentine (Barbara Nichols, "Sweet Smell of Success) is in town. Her press agent/manager, Stanley Jackson (Eddie Ryder) concocts a way to plug her picture by picking a prominent man and saying he and Vivian were once high school sweethearts who she still loves. They pick the president of the junior chamber of commerce- Dagwood. When the news is leaked to the newspaper Dagwood tries to remember her. His desire to want it to be true leads him to think it is so, inventing his own stories. The newspaper story leaves Dagwood the envy of men and the attraction of women. Mr. Dithers makes Dagwood temporary vice president while Vivian is in town, as a means of publicity for his company. Dagwood begins finding the situation has increasing demands. Blondie is worried about a promoted kiss Vivian is to give Dagwood on stage. The big kiss may have an unexpected effect.

The plot languished, but Blondie's character showed more heart at times with a better ending than most.