late forties era screwball comedy over films moving different direction comedically otherwise television looming horizon hollywood would soon rough time where one wonders would movies gone television come along arrival scene delayed five ten years mr blandings builds dream house offers one particular way comedy might developedbr br ad man jim blandings along wife two daughters living nice way cramped new york city apartment one day gets bright idea might fun realize dream building house suburbs buys property connecticut one built precise specifications well almost known trouble might changed mind might have decide frail premise wonderful film results full conflict middle class dream owning ones home oftentimes unpleasant reality acquiring one nothing comes easy life mr blandings learns one miserable things always go ones way is all long run but blandings asks every minutes long longbr br this movie delight not suppose masterpiece capramccarey tradition worthy successor thirties pictures may well harbinger things come arrival television changed cultural landscape radically real warmth picture good deal wc fieldsian hardedged reality obtruding periodically much leave bad taste people film smart affluent decidedly professional upper middle idle rich upper classbr br lead players cary grant myrna loy plays mr mrs blandings perfection melvyn douglas fine pragmatic lawyer friend often bring unpleasant topics real world works is too wonderful sense want better term one might call romance suburbia infancy immediate postwar years one sees woods streams drew people country first place people definitely fish water still largely rural connecticut short years things would change mad rush suburbia would full gear destroying forever pastoral innocence many yearned small towns soon would connected highways littered bottles cans effluvia rivaling anything one would encounter city