Comments on: Fred MacMurray, good at stuff

By: Carole & Co. entries, August 2008 « Carole & Co.

Carole & Co. entries, August 2008 « Carole & Co. — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:06:49 +0000

[...] * “Fred MacMurray, good at stuff.” The actor’s life away from the studio (http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/05/fred-macmurray-good-at-stuff/). [...]

By: TCM’s Movie Blog

TCM’s Movie Blog — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:38:58 +0000

[...] I also learned from my fellow morlocks just what a private individual MacMurray was in terms of the Hollywood social scene. He preferred to spend time with his family and on hobbies such as golf, gardening, music (he played the saxophone and was a bandleader at one time – he even had a pleasant singing voice), horseback riding, investing and leather making – which morlock RHSmith discovered in his blog “Fred MacMurray- Good at Stuff” http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/08/05/fred-macmurray-good-at-stuff/ [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:13:36 +0000

Fred MacMurray was always the Dad in My Three Sons. I am an avid classic film and TCM fan, so I saw great performances in films like Double Indemnity and The Caine Mutiny. I happen to love his performance in The Apartment, one of my favorites of all time, for Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Billy Wilder.

By: Robert E.

Robert E. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:33:47 +0000

Be sure to see Fred’s western, “Face of a Fugitive.” I have always remembered it as a great western. Glad it will be shown on TCM in a day or two. I see that TV Guide gave it 2 out of 4 stars. It deserves 3-1/2 stars. …. ….. ….. Also very good (if slow in places) is another good Fred M. western, “Good Day For a Hanging.”

By: nana

nana — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:05:22 +0000

For years I have been looking for the Fred MacMurry 1951 movie, “A Millionaire for Christy”, co-starring Eleanor Parker. I have never seen in on TCM nor anywhere else. Please let me know if it is available for sale or if it will be shown on a future TCM program. I recall this was a very funny film with Fred at his comic best. Thank you for any information.

By: Ken Loar

Ken Loar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:51:12 +0000

I grew up watching Fred MacMurray as Steven Douglas on “MY THREE SONS”. You can just imagine my surprise the first time I saw “DOUBLE INDEMNITY”. At first, it seemed so out of character, but finally I came to realize that it was a quality that really made him such a good actor. He could portray people in the best and worst of circumstances with equal vigor. He shows that it doesn’t take much to turn a nice guy sour. Quick cash, the wrong broad at the wrong time, a knife in the back.

By: edie

edie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:17:59 +0000

love him he is funny,serious,very good looking and well he isfred macmurry.

By: RHS

RHS — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:31:30 +0000

W.C. fields and George Arliss. Can't you just imagine that phone call? "Hey, Disraeli, me and Whipsnade are having a toot over at Jasper's. Give the Model A a crank and get your ass over here pronto!" I used to think Fred MacMurray was dull but nothing bores me more than today's stars. Fred seems positively magnetic by comparison.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:24:22 +0000

Fred may seem a bit dull and unexciting comparable to most of the other stars featured in TCM’s Summer Under the Stars festival (with the exception of Marie Dressler) – but could any of them make a leather holster? Noooooooooooooo! Plus he was drinking buddies with W.C. Fields. How cool is that?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:15:00 +0000

I may be wrongheaded and judgmental about this, but I get a sense from actors in the classic era that they are bringing life experience to their roles and from today’s actors that they are bringing classroom experience to their roles.