A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- John Retch
- (as Jason Robards)
- Mr. Murphy
- (uncredited)
- Workman
- (uncredited)
- Charlie - Painter
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe house "Blandings' Way" really exists on Indian Hill Road in New Milford, Connecticut. It's a beautiful huge white art deco/colonial house that has many of the actual rooms discussed in the movie - such as a room to cut flowers. Also less than a mile away on Long Mountain Road is executive producer of the movie and MGM head Dore Schary's old country home.
- GoofsThe foreman asks Mr. Blandings if the "lintels between the lally columns" should be rabbeted. However, the lintels are on the second floor of a two-story house. Lally columns are used in the basement or the first floor to provide support to the middle of long beams. They are not needed on the second floor.
- Quotes
Muriel Blandings: I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me...
Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford: Check.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown on an architect's blueprints.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990)
- SoundtracksHome on the Range
(uncredited)
Written by Brewster M. Higley
Sung by Cary Grant and then Myrna Loy as they shower
The script has a perfect ear, the director's timing is impeccable, and the sophisticated style of the stars gives the entire production a polished sheen. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas are all brilliant, but this is much more than a star vehicle. It's one of the best sophisticated comedies Hollywood ever committed to celluloid. And even 60 years later, the story is all too true.
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- Nur meiner Frau zuliebe
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,995,000
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1