Saturday, September 12, 2009

Radio review – SGP – “Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House’ (1950) *1/2

Real life married couple Cary Grant and Betsy Drake (stepping in for Myrna Loy) go through some wacky moving-into-a-new-house shenanigans – the sort of thing that hit the mark in the post war period. But Grant’s character is such a pompous idiot getting into strife because of his own impulsive actions, not thinking things through – was this typical behaviour of men of the time? (“I just came back from a war I don’t need to do due diligence on my property purchases”) Drake should go off with the lawyer ex.

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