Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
No one ever described room colors better than [Myrna] Loy!
-- Leonard Maltin
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.com/ac.
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948)
TwoFer Tuesday Tribute to Cary Grant, program with Charade (1963)
on Tuesday, August 14th, 5:00PM and 9:30PM
at NoHo, Playhouse, and Royal
Cary Grant is remembered for his elegance, casualness and charm As writer Tom Wolfe once put it, he is “consummately romantic and consummately genteel.” These two movies showcase all the facets of his timeless appeal. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE is a genial comedy adapted from a novel by Eric Hodges (screenplay by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama) about a married advertising executive (Grant) with two daughters in post-WWII Manhattan who decides to leave the crowded city for the country life. Myrna Loy, one of the popular female stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, plays his disarming wife and, according to Leonard Maltin, “no one ever described room colors better than Loy!” Melvyn Douglas plays a “friend of the family” who causes comic complications for Grant. Directed by H.C. Potter ('The Farmer’s Daughter') with black-and-white cinematography by the great James Wong Howe, the film was the inspiration for the Tom Hanks’s 1986 comedy 'The Money Pit.'
Format: DVD
TwoFer Tuesday Tribute to Cary Grant, program with Charade (1963)
on Tuesday, August 14th, 5:00PM and 9:30PM
at NoHo, Playhouse, and Royal
Cary Grant is remembered for his elegance, casualness and charm As writer Tom Wolfe once put it, he is “consummately romantic and consummately genteel.” These two movies showcase all the facets of his timeless appeal. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE is a genial comedy adapted from a novel by Eric Hodges (screenplay by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama) about a married advertising executive (Grant) with two daughters in post-WWII Manhattan who decides to leave the crowded city for the country life. Myrna Loy, one of the popular female stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, plays his disarming wife and, according to Leonard Maltin, “no one ever described room colors better than Loy!” Melvyn Douglas plays a “friend of the family” who causes comic complications for Grant. Directed by H.C. Potter ('The Farmer’s Daughter') with black-and-white cinematography by the great James Wong Howe, the film was the inspiration for the Tom Hanks’s 1986 comedy 'The Money Pit.'
Format: DVD
Genre
Anniversary Classics,
Comedy,
Romance
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
HC Potter
Writer(s)
Melvin Frank
Cast
Cary Grant,
Melvyn Douglas
Played at
Royal 8.14.18 - 8.14.18
NoHo 7 8.14.18 - 8.14.18
Playhouse 7 8.14.18 - 8.14.18
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