Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) | |
| Director(s) | H.C. Potter |
| Producer(s) | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Dore Schary (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Top Topics | Advertising, Book-Based, Home, Husband Wife, New York, Romance (Comic) |
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama and Dore Schary.
The film was based on the novel of the same name and also Fortune Magazine Short Story written by Eric Hodgins published in 1946 (novel); April 1946 (magazine).
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Jim Blandings: Muriel, would it do any good to say I'm sorry?
Muriel Blandings: I don't know.
Jim Blandings: Well I am. I've behaved like a school boy and I'm sorry.
Jim Blandings: Look, you can't measure everything on a slide rule. This house has certain intangibles.
Bill Cole: Like what for instance?
Jim Blandings: Like antique value for instance. It just so happens that General, um, Gates stopped right there, that very house, to water his horses.
Bill Cole: I don't care if General Grant stopped in for a scotch and sode. You're still getting rooked.
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Jim Blandings: Muriel, would it do any good to say I'm sorry?
Muriel Blandings: I don't know.
Jim Blandings: Well I am. I've behaved like a school boy and I'm sorry.
Jim Blandings: Look, you can't measure everything on a slide rule. This house has certain intangibles.
Bill Cole: Like what for instance?
Jim Blandings: Like antique value for instance. It just so happens that General, um, Gates stopped right there, that very house, to water his horses.
Bill Cole: I don't care if General Grant stopped in for a scotch and sode. You're still getting rooked.
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Facts about
The house "Blandings' Way" really exists on Indian Hill Road in New Milford, Connecticut. It's a beautiful huge white art deco/colonial house that has many of the actual rooms discussed in the movie - such as a room to cut flowers. Also less than a mile away on Long Mountain Road is executive producer of the movie and MGM head Dore Schary's old country home.
"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 9, 1950 with Cary Grant again reprising his film role.
Many critics in 1948 felt that Cary Grant and Myrna Loy were too old to play the naive young couple who don't know about building a house.
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"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 9, 1950 with Cary Grant again reprising his film role.
Many critics in 1948 felt that Cary Grant and Myrna Loy were too old to play the naive young couple who don't know about building a house.
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