Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (25-Mar-1948)

Director: H. C. Potter

Writers: Norman Panama; Melvin Frank

From novel: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins

Music by: Leigh Harline

Producers: Norman Panama; Melvin Frank

Keywords: Comedy

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, cramped in their tiny Manhattan apartment, buy a large house in the Connecticut countryside, which is quickly determined unsuitable and condemned. They commence building a new house on the land to their specifications, wherein everything that can possibly go wrong in fact does. Light but still sophisticated domestic comedy, still watchable. Compare The Money Pit (1986).

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Lex Barker Actor 8-May-1919 11-May-1973 The tenth to play Tarzan

Louise Beavers Actor 8-Mar-1902 26-Oct-1962 She Done Him Wrong

Reginald Denny Actor 20-Nov-1891 16-Jun-1967 English actor and RC airplane popularizer

Melvyn Douglas Actor 5-Apr-1901 4-Aug-1981 Being There

Cary Grant Actor 18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 North by Northwest

Myrna Loy Actor 2-Aug-1905 14-Dec-1993 The Thin Man

Connie Marshall Actor 28-Apr-1933 22-May-2001 Dragonwyck

Sharyn Moffett Actor 12-Sep-1936 Child of Divorce

Nestor Paiva Actor 30-Jun-1905 9-Sep-1966 Tarantula

Jason Robards, Sr. Actor 31-Dec-1892 4-Apr-1963 Bedlam

Lurene Tuttle Actor 20-Aug-1907 28-May-1986 First Lady of Radio

Ian Wolfe Actor 4-Nov-1896 23-Jan-1992 Bedlam

CAST

Cary Grant ... Jim Blandings
Myrna Loy ... Muriel Blandings
Melvyn Douglas ... Bill Cole
with
Reginald Denny ... Simms
Sharyn Moffett ... Joan Blandings
Connie Marshall ... Betsy Blandings
Louise Beavers ... Gussie
Ian Wolfe ... Smith
Harry Shannon ... Tesander
Tito Vuolo ... Mr. Zucca
Nestor Paiva ... Joe Appollonio
Jason Robards, Sr. ... John Retch
Lurene Tuttle ... Mary
Lex Barker ... Carpenter Foreman
Emory Parnell ... Mr. PeDelford

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