What Film is that Benjamin Moore Paint Commercial?

[Mark Papianni]

Okay, it's been bugging my wife and I for months now...
There is a Benjamin Moore Paint commercial on television that
uses clips from a classic 1940's maybe early '50's film
in Black and white. The woman is describing various paint colors
to a man in a suit whom I assuming is the painter or interior designer.
The woman shows him various examples of paint...
"...match the small blue dots in this wallpaper."
"... match this bit of thread, a reddish apple, somewhere between
a granny smith and an unripened johnny(?)."
"... now the kitchen should be white... not a cold hospital anteseptic
white, but no other color that should suggest anything but white..."

All the while the man just keeps saying... "uh, huh. uh, huh"

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS *&%$# MOVIE???

Thank you.
Mark

[George W. Harris]

In article <May.11.16.26...@andromeda.rutgers.edu> papi...@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Mark Papianni) writes:
>
> Okay, it's been bugging my wife and I for months now...
> There is a Benjamin Moore Paint commercial on television that
> uses clips from a classic 1940's maybe early '50's film
> in Black and white. The woman is describing various paint colors
> to a man in a suit whom I assuming is the painter or interior designer.
>

> WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS *&%$# MOVIE???

Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.

> Thank you.

You're welcome.

> Mark
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[Doug Krause]

In article <1993May11.2...@news.tufts.edu> gha...@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris) writes:
#In article <May.11.16.26...@andromeda.rutgers.edu> papi...@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Mark Papianni) writes:
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#> Okay, it's been bugging my wife and I for months now...
#> There is a Benjamin Moore Paint commercial on television that
#> uses clips from a classic 1940's maybe early '50's film
#> in Black and white. The woman is describing various paint colors
#> to a man in a suit whom I assuming is the painter or interior designer.
#>
#> WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS *&%$# MOVIE???
#
# Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. Great film.

**** Douglas Krause djkr...@uci.edu One yuppie can ruin ****
**** University of California, Irvine your whole day. ****

[Alan Light]

In <May.11.16.26...@andromeda.rutgers.edu> papi...@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Mark Papianni) writes:
> Okay, it's been bugging my wife and I for months now...
> There is a Benjamin Moore Paint commercial on television that
> uses clips from a classic 1940's maybe early '50's film
> in Black and white. The woman is describing various paint colors
> to a man in a suit whom I assuming is the painter or interior designer.

The movie is "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948). It stars
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy (who is seen in the commercial) and Melvyn Douglas.

The funny part is that in the movie, after Mrs. Blandings goes into great
detail explaining to the painter all the different shades she wanted for
each of the rooms, she leaves the room and the painter turns to his
assistant and says, "You got all that"
The assistant then replies, "Yeah, red, blue, yellow and green."

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