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08-30-2017, 07:56 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/08/30/august-30-happy-birthday-shirley-booth-and-fred-macmurray/
Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) began acting in film at the very beginning of the sound era. By the mid-1930s he was a frequent leading man. He did occasional dramas, but usually was a nice-guy lead in romantic comedies—he starred with Claudette Colbert in The Gilded Lily, Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table and a number of other films, and Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night. In 1944, MacMurray had one of his most famous and successful film roles when he was cast very strongly against type in a classic film noir (which reunited him with Stanwyck).
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MacMurray remained a leading man into the fifties, still normally in comedies, although he dabbled with against type roles in The Caine Mutiny (as the manipulative Lt. Keefer) and The Apartment, a second collaboration with Billy Wilder. In the 1960s, he had two very well-known roles, starring as widower Steve Douglas on My Three Sons, one of the longest-running sitcoms in television history, and also as Professor Ned Brainerd of Medfield College in Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber.
Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) began acting in film at the very beginning of the sound era. By the mid-1930s he was a frequent leading man. He did occasional dramas, but usually was a nice-guy lead in romantic comedies—he starred with Claudette Colbert in The Gilded Lily, Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table and a number of other films, and Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night. In 1944, MacMurray had one of his most famous and successful film roles when he was cast very strongly against type in a classic film noir (which reunited him with Stanwyck).
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MacMurray remained a leading man into the fifties, still normally in comedies, although he dabbled with against type roles in The Caine Mutiny (as the manipulative Lt. Keefer) and The Apartment, a second collaboration with Billy Wilder. In the 1960s, he had two very well-known roles, starring as widower Steve Douglas on My Three Sons, one of the longest-running sitcoms in television history, and also as Professor Ned Brainerd of Medfield College in Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber.