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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) 7.2
A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think. Director:H.C. Potter |
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The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is easier said than done. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 June 1948 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
De villa onzer dromen See more »Filming Locations:
Administration Building, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Bill Cole: I don't care if General Grant dropped in for a scotch and soda. You're still getting rooked.
Jim Blandings: That was a different war!
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(uncredited)
Written by Brewster M. Higley
Sung by Cary Grant and then Myrna Loy as they shower
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Did You Know?
Trivia
In the movie, a flooded excavation plagues the Blandings and their builders, requiring pumps to empty it. In reality, Eric Hodgins reported in his interview with LIFE magazine that the movie set excavation leaked so badly that large pumps were required just to keep it filled for shooting. See more »Goofs
About 46-47 minutes in, a drawing of the new house in the architect's office is shown. "Blandings" is incorrectly shown with an apostrophe between the "g" and the "s" See more »Quotes
Jim Blandings: It just so happened that General... uh... Gates stopped right there at that very house to water his horses.Bill Cole: I don't care if General Grant dropped in for a scotch and soda. You're still getting rooked.
Jim Blandings: That was a different war!
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Crazy Credits
Opening credits are shown on an architect's blueprints. See more »Soundtracks
"Home on the Range"(uncredited)
Written by Brewster M. Higley
Sung by Cary Grant and then Myrna Loy as they shower
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This is a pretty good comedy, with several good screwball-type sequences, and yet its silliness also contains some commentary, sometimes pointed, and much of it still pertinent. Cary Grant and Myrna Loy are well-suited to this kind of material, and the script provides good dialogue and some amusing situations for them and the rest of the cast to work with.
This is certainly of particular interest to anyone who has ever faced either the kind of home-buying experience that the Blandings family goes through, or one of the many other similar experiences that life offers. The whole picture of having to deal with a bewildering assortment of contractors, workmen, lawyers, and who knows what else, is a very familiar feature of modern life, even for those who do not buy their own homes. The movie helps to point out some of the basic absurdities all of this, while providing some good humor.
The two sub-plots - the one with Melvyn Douglas and the other with Grant looking for the new slogan - are worked in rather resourcefully, so as to parallel some of the basic themes of the main story about the house, while also providing comic complications in the main plot.
Grant has the knack of making the wildest situations seem believable at the time, and even somewhat sophisticated. Loy's charm and elegance make her a very good complement to Grant's character. It's a good combination overall.