January 18 movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. In retrospect it was a big mistake to watch this movie right after all those gritty Depression-era melodramas. I kept wanting to shake my fist and yell "Bourgeois pigs!" at the screen. After Robert Montgomery and Tallulah Bankhead laughing and dancing around their one-room hovel because he stole food so they have something to eat that day, it was a bit hard to sympathize with Cary Grant's trauma at having to share a bathroom with his wife, who clutters up the vanity with her beauty products, and never puts his socks in the sock drawer! For the love of god, why can't she put the socks in the sock drawer? How can anyone live like that?
Okay, I'm selling this movie short. It is funny, especially if you've ever had to do any home building or renovation. Just don't watch it right after Faithless or The Easiest Way or After Office Hours. Or any movie that acknowledges the Depression existed.
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