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this is so worth reposting! I love the dialog that Muriel Blandings gives the painters as to what color each room should be! Cary Grant and Myrna Loy made in 1948!

LOVE THE DIALOG from the movie when Mrs. Blandings (Cray Grant's movie wife Myrna Loy) is choosing the paint color and definitions she gives each color. (Mr Blandings builds his dream house) OF course back then the painter mixed the colors right there in the house with his supply of tints added to white paint.

Muriel Blandings: I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very g*a*y yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me...
Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford: exactly.

YouTube has the video of the conversation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVMDS3qeLb8

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Mary Ruth,

One of my favorite movies and that is one of my favorite scenes!

Martha

Pitch perfect dialogue from one of my all-time favorite flicks.

She is so smooth when reciting it!
I am going to watch the movie within a couple of days and I was too anxious to wait to hear her do that dialog.

I just love that movie! I recently loaned it to a friend of mine going through builders h*** after his house had a fire, he loved it. I think I'm putting it on the agenda this week.

Love that! Thanks for reminding me of that great movie!

I love that scene. She can SEE her colors.. Then he has that aside with his painter..

Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford: exactly.

Cracks me up every time..

you know what's funny.. I bet the colors turned out exactly right..

yes, and I'll bet when he was mixing the colors, the unconsciously did what she said, like the yellow didn't look right till he thought of butter! LOL

Funny too is that the colors, as she explained them, I could see them in my head and understood exactly what she wanted! But then I am a woman... we just know these things instinctively!