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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas.Written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it was an adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1946 comedy novel written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig, describing the vicissitudes of buying a home in the country. It originally appeared as a short story called "Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle" in the April 1946 issue of Fortune magazine. Within two years the novel had sold ...
The film is a loose remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, New York, and was co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
In April 1946, he wrote an article for Fortune called "Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle", a fictional account of the real-life troubles he encountered while building a house in New Milford, Connecticut. Later that year, he turned the article into a book, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, which was a best-seller.
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was adapted for the screen in the 1960 French film “Purple Noon,” but audiences know it better from the 1999 hit featuring Matt ...
The plot of the movie is taken from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). The screenplay is by Hank Nelken. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios and RKO Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was shot on location in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada, but is set in Newberg, Oregon, United States.
A fictional house in the neighbourhood of Blandings Castle, Marling is the home of Colonel Fanshawe, his wife and their attractive daughter Valerie. The butler there is a friend of Beach, and the two of them occasionally share a glass or two in the evenings. The house's coal cellar has, on at least one occasion, served as a makeshift prison.
The Blandings, Mulliner and Freddie Widgeon stories in Lord Emsworth and Others (UK) also appeared in the US collection The Crime Wave at Blandings. The three Oldest Member stories had already appeared in the US edition of Young Men in Spats (1936), and the three Ukridge stories were included in the US edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940).