Review of Blondie's Blessed Event

This is the eleventh in the Blondie movie series. As revealed in the last one, Blondie is pregnant (thought her stomach shows no signs on screen) and would eventually go to the hospital. Meanwhile, Daisy has a litter of pups at home with Mrs. Bumstead looking over them as Dagwood hurries home after his son told him over the phone without revealing it was Daisy's babies being born. It's in this one that Baby Dumpling's name will become Alexander as he starts insisting on it. The newborn girl's name-Cookie (Norma Jean Wayne in her only film appearance)-comes from a cop who temporarily stops the cab because it's going too slow. Oh, and Dagwood gets sent to Chicago because Mr. Dithers notices he's too distracted by his upcoming offspring birth. While there, Dag meets a playwright/actor (Hans Conried) who ingratiates him and eventually gets invited to his house to Blondie's consternation. I'll stop there and just say while there's some pretty good gags, some of the repetition is really starting to show such as Dag trying to get a raise (again), Mr. Dithers getting upset at something Bumstead does and firing him (again). One gag that doesn't get old, however, is the mailman getting knocked over by Dagwood. This time, the Irving Bacon character (who for some reason, is called Mr. Crump-instead of Mr. Beasley-here) delivers his mail at his office so he hasn't bumped into him in weeks. While Dag manages to avoid him this time, Mr. Dithers doesn't! Conried has some amusing moments and so does Mary Wickes as the maid he hired, also to Blondie's consternation. Nothing more to say except, Blondie's Blessed Event is worth a look if you're a fan of the series.