Is this the lost-movie thread? Does anyone remember an old flick starring...I dunno, maybe it was Gary Cooper...all I remember was one scene. The luckless hero was always getting into misfortune, and at one point acquired a grand old house and next thing you know it burned down. It was, I think, a screwball comedy, and of that era, but maybe it was Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart. It wasn’t “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” and I don’t recall that the house was central to the story, it was just about his horrible bad luck.
Could it be the movie Casanova Brown?