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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse is by now a part of the Anglo-U.S. climate. Scatty, erratic, now on now off the beam, Wodehouse has nonetheless pulled off the astonishing feat of making his creations a living part of the civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no...
Mr. Blandings' Dream House was evidently not the Brattle Theatre. Gentleman's Agreement, one notes, is more gentile, and is a happy replacement. At 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
Mr. Blandings is cramped up in a New York apartment with his menagerie: wife, three kids, maid, canary, and no closet space. Old Connecticut farmhouses, he finds, do have closet space. He gets out. When his old Connecticut farmhouse turns out to be unsafe he builds another, at tremendous cost...
The history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's...
As Mr. Blandings, Carey Grant spends most of his time looking dire, and he is an old hand at it. Few actors, probably, have gotten as many laughs out of standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas...