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Cary Grant

The tribulations involved in building your dream house were as true 60 years ago as they are today, based on people I know who've done it, and the movie I just watched. In Cary Grant's "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", we see the well-off middle class New Yorker -- making 15 grand a year! -- looking for the comfort and serenity of a place in the country. And naturally nothing seems to go right.

1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
   
2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
   
3. "The Awful Truth", 1937, also starring Irene Dunne
   
4. "Charade", 1963, also starring Audrey Hepburn
   
5. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
   
6. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
   
7. "His Girl Friday", 1940, also starring Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy
   
8. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
9. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
10. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
    
11. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
    
12. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
    
13. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
    
14. "Suspicion", 1941, also starring Joan Fontaine
    
15. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
    
16. "An Affair To Remember", 1957, also starring Deborah Kerr
    
17. "To Catch A Thief", 1955, also starring Grace Kelly
    
18. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
    
19. "The Bishop's Wife", 1947, also starring Loretta Young and David Niven
    
20. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
21. "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", 1948, also starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas
    
22. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
    
23. "Only Angels Have Wings", 1939, also starring Jean Arthur
    
24. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
    
25. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
26. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
    
27. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
    
28. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
    
29. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
    
30. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
    
31. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
    
32. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
    
33. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
    
34. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren