The passion of Blandings
Novelist Eric Hodgins and screen writers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank turned the American dream of home ownership into a satiric nightmare in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Exasperated with cramped N.Y. apartment, Blandings buy a farmhouse in the country. They soon find out that the house is a ramshackle building, which demands to be tear down and erect a dream house. The comedy of horrors are the unending series of problems encountered in this journey. This movie reminds me of another movie entitled “George Washington Slept Here” also has s very similar theme and twists. Cary Grant and Myrna Loy offers splendid performance as caring couple making it all happen in a peaceful way.
The film was a co-production of RKO Studios and David Selznick’s Vanguard Films. The latter lent the services of Cary Grant for the movie. This was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy. They made two other wonderful movies in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) and Wings in the Dark (1935). The Blandings house built for the 1948 film still stands as an office for the Park on the old Fox Ranch property in Malibu Creek State Park, Malibu, California.
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