Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 is an American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas. The film was written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, and was an adaptation of Eric Hodgins popular 1946 novel, illustrated by Shrek author William Steig.

Jim Blandings Cary Grant, a bright account executive in the advertising business, lives with his wife Muriel Myrna Loy and two daughters, Betsy Connie Marshall and Joan Sharyn Moffett, in a cramped New York apartment. Muriel secretly plans to remodel their apartment. After rejecting this idea, Jim Blandings comes across an ad for new homes in Connecticut and they get excited about moving. Planning to purchase and fix up an old home, the couple contact a real estate agent, who uses them to unload The Old Hackett Place in fictional Lansdale County, Connecticut. It is a dilapidated, twohundredyearold farmhouse. Blandings purchases the property for more than the going rate for land in the area, provoking his friendlawyer Bill Cole Melvyn Douglas to chastise him for following his heart rather than his head.The old house, dating from the Revolutionary Warera, turns out to be structurally unsound and has to be torn down. The Blandings hire architect Simms Reginald Denny to design and supervise the construction of the new home. From the original purchase to the new houses completion, a long litany of unforeseen troubles and setbacks beset the hapless Blandings and delay their movingin date. On top of all this, at work Jim is assigned the task of coming up with a slogan for WHAM Brand Ham, an advertising account that has destroyed the careers of previous account executives assigned to it. Jim also suspects that Muriel is cheating on him with Bill Cole after Bill slept at the Blandings alone in the house with Muriel one night due to a violent thunderstorm. ........

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