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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 American comedy film directed by H.C. Potter and starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. 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 William Steig.

The film was a box office hit upon its release, and has remained a popular film through cable television broadcasts and the home video market. Warner Home Video released the film to DVD with restored and remastered audio and video in 2004, following a campaign to get it released to the medium. Featuring a plot that can be easily identified with, the film has spawned a number of remakes/semi-remakes, including the 1986 Tom Hanks vehicle The Money Pit
, 1993's The Dream House, and 2007's Are We Done Yet?
.

The DVD release of the film includes in the disc's special features, two 1/2 hour radio performances, both with Cary Grant reprising the title role, and with Irene Dunn as Muriel in the October 10, 1949 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast on CBS, and with Grant's actual wife Betsy Drake playing Muriel in the June 9, 1950 broadcast on NBC's Screen Director's Playhouse.

Plot

Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) is a well-to-do advertising executive, who lives with his wife Muriel (Myrna Loy) and two daughters in a cramped New York apartment. They pursue an idea of remodeling somebody else's property, but then hit upon a plan to buy property in rural Connecticut -- a short train commute from his office. Blandings gets suckered into paying too much, knocks down the decrepit house on which the former owner holds a mortgage, finds the trains don't run on his schedule, watches helplessly as the well-digger goes deeper and deeper to find water, and so forth. Blandings is flustered further when he learns that his wife had had a college affair with Blandings's good friend and lawyer Bill Cole (Melvyn Douglas). The tribulations are almost too much for Blandings, who considers, after the house is built and occupied, to dump it on the market and seek shelter elsewhere.

Cast

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