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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ()

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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.
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Jim Blandings
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Muriel Blandings
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Bill Cole
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Simms
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Joan Blandings
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Betsy Blandings
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Gussie
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Smith
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Tesander
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Mr. Zucca
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Joe Apollonio
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John Retch (as Jason Robards)
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Mary
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Carpenter Foreman
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Mr. PeDelford
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Mr. Murphy (uncredited)
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Workman (uncredited)
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Charlie - Painter (uncredited)
Cliff Clark ...
Jones (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Judge Quarles (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson ...
Harry Selby (uncredited)
Jack Jahries ...
Bit Part (uncredited)
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Hurried Diner (uncredited)
Gene Leslie ...
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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Wrecker (uncredited)
Franklin Parker ...
Simpson (uncredited)
Cy Slocum ...
Bit Part (uncredited)
Ralph Stein ...
Proprietor (uncredited)
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Bunny Funkhauser (uncredited)
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Workman (uncredited)
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Customer (uncredited)
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Eph Hackett (uncredited)

Directed by

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H.C. Potter

Written by

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Eric Hodgins ... (novel)
 
Norman Panama ... (written for the screen by) and
Melvin Frank ... (written for the screen by)

Produced by

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Melvin Frank ... producer
Norman Panama ... producer
Dore Schary ... executive producer (uncredited)

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Leigh Harline

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James Wong Howe ... director of photography

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Harry Marker

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Carroll Clark
Albert S. D'Agostino

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Harley Miller ... (set decorations)
Darrell Silvera ... (set decorations)

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Robert Kalloch ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Gordon Bau ... makeup supervisor
Hazel Rogers ... hair stylist (uncredited)

Production Management

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James H. Anderson ... production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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James Lane ... assistant director
Alex Finlayson ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Joel Freeman ... assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Clem Portman ... sound
Francis M. Sarver ... sound

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Russell A. Cully ... special effects

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Charles Burke ... camera operator (uncredited)
Jim Kirley ... grip (uncredited)
Gaston Longet ... still photographer (uncredited)
Cliff Shirpser ... assistant camera (uncredited)

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C. Bakaleinikoff ... musical director

Script and Continuity Department

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Kay Phillips ... script supervisor (uncredited)

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Dore Schary ... presenter
John Swope ... technical advisor
Dan Cassell ... stand-in: Cary Grant (uncredited)
Charles Cirillo ... stand-in (uncredited)
Ivy Keene ... stand-in (uncredited)
Jean Nash ... stand-in (uncredited)
Reinhard W. Noack ... German version dubbing director (uncredited)
Charlie Phillips ... stand-in (uncredited)
Pete Weissmuller ... stand-in (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is easier said than done. Written by John Vogel

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Also Known As
  • Un million clé en main (France)
  • Un million clefs en main (France)
  • Los Blandings ya tienen casa (Spain)
  • Els Blandings ja tenen casa (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Hogar dulce hogar (Mexico)
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  • 94 min
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Trivia Mr. Blandings' yearly salary of $15,000 would be (adjusted for inflation) approximately $193,000 in 2024. The screenwriters had originally given him a salary of $10,000, but postwar inflation forced them to give him a raise before shooting began. See more »
Goofs The 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. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990). See more »
Soundtracks Home on the Range See more »
Crazy Credits Opening credits are shown on an architect's blueprints. See more »
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.
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