george washington slept here ( 1942 ) dir represent william keighley production represent warner bros. proto mr. blandings plot of city dwelling husband and wife team ( jack benny and ann sheridan a bill and connie fuller ) purchase a dauntingly run down country house ( where and it be say and george washington once sleep or do he . ) and renovate it to the point of both mental and pecuniary exhaustion . the two film have other similarity and despite both be base on different source ( this film have the more notable pedigree and take from a george s. kaufman moss hart play and while mr. blandings be base on a novel ) . outside of the main premise and both film also have the similar character of the dull witted local supervise the work ( here play amusingly by pa kettle percy kilbride ) and a helpful male friend of the couple that the husband falsely believe be make a play for his wife ( melvyn douglas in blandings and harvey stephen here ) . this kind of story walk a thin line between funny and cruel or bad ( think the money pit ) and a the humor derive from the situation get bad and bad for the character . thankfully this film manage to be steady fun and with a couple of laugh out loud moment . i think it something about the jack benny persona and a sort of benign pompousness that audiences enjoy see deflate and even when he the good guy . there a slow start and the first ten minute or so featuring franklin pangborn a the fuller landlord and his battle with the fuller family dog isn not very good and but it not long before benny and the material start to work the situation for real yuks . perhaps excessively slapstick y at time ( benny fall into a well and fall through the floor and go up the stair and fall through the ceiling ) and but even that stuff get it fair share of hit ( one of the good sight gag be and after be forbid the use of the neighborhood main street and the off road arrival by car of benny at the house ) . the arrival of a couple of nightmare relative of the fuller also work while with charles coburn play an egocentric uncle they cater to in hope he will one day leave his fortune to them and douglas croft ( young george m. cohan in yankee doodle dandy ) a raymond and connie obnoxious adolescent nephew . ann sheridan be in her prime here and although she pal in unfortunate comparison to myrna loy in blandings and isn not really ask to carry much of the comedy . hattie mcdaniel be also along in a routine and thankless maid role . out of 4 .