Just for the sake of my wife

Movie
German title	Just for the sake of my wife
Original title	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1948
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	HC Potter
script	Eric Hodgins (novel), Melvin Frank , Norman Panama
production	Melvin Frank Norman Panama
music	Leigh Harline
camera	James Wong Howe
cut	Harry Marker
occupation
Cary Grant : Jim Blandings Myrna Loy : Muriel Blandings Melvyn Douglas : Bill Cole Louise Beavers : Gussie Reginald Denny : Henry Simms Jason Robards Sr .: John Retch Lex Barker : Carpenter Foreman Connie Marshall : Betsy Blandings Sharyn Moffett : Joan Blandings Ian Wolfe : Realtor Smith Harry Shannon : WD Tesander

Just for the sake of my wife is a 1948 American comedy film directed by HC Potter and starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy . Written and produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama , it is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Eric Hodgins .

The film was a box office hit . Warner Home Video released it on DVD in 2004 . The house built for the film is still in Malibu State Park north of Malibu, California and is used by the park administration.

action

Advertising manager Jim Blandings lives in a small apartment in New York with his wife Muriel and two daughters. Jim rejects Muriel's remodeling plans and instead discovers an ad for homes in Connecticut . You acquire a derelict 200 year old farmhouse. The lawyer friend Bill Cole criticizes the gut decision.

The old building is proving to be ready for demolition. The Blandings commissioned the architect Simms with the planning of the new building, but their elaborate special requests are driving up the costs. As the construction progresses, new problems arise all the time, delaying the completion of the house and plunging the family into huge debt. Jim Blandings is also burdened by job problems and the suspicion that his wife has a relationship with his best friend, Bill Cole. When he is finally ready to quit his job and finds Bill Cole in his dressing gown with his wife, he is desperate. But an honest craftsman and an idea of ​​his housekeeper who overcomes his creative problems convince him that there is still hope, and in the end he, his family, and his friend Bill enjoy the wonderful house in the country.

criticism

“The comedy glosses over the pitfalls of the property and the cliffs of family peace in an imaginative and funny way. Although the rapid beginning pace is not maintained, the likeable actors of the comedy secure interest until the end. "

- Lexicon of international film

Remakes

• Free is too expensive (1986) - Tom Hanks , Shelley Long
• Are we finally done? (2007) - Ice Cube , John C. McGinley

literature

• Anke Brouwers and Tom Paulus: The Mortgage the Merrier: Hollywood Comedies of Remarriage in the Age of Domesticity . In: Jeffrey Crouse (Ed.): Stanley Cavell special issue, Film International , Issue 22 . tape 4 , no. 4 , 2006.

Web links

• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• The Internet Archive: "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" , radio version from 1949, Lux Radio Theater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coordinates 34 05 '41.40 "N 118 42' 43.63" W.
2. ↑ Just for the sake of my wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .