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11 unusual facts about Fred MacMurray


Back-to-the-land movement

This story was the basis of a successful comedy film starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

Betelgeuse in fiction

He is later confronted by Communications officer Lieutenant Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray) in the shower: "Sure we pick up the skeds from the Betelgeuse. They guard for all destroyers in port. It's standard procedure," shouts Keefer.

Beverly Garland

Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, Barbara Harper Douglas, in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons,a role which she played from 1969 until the series ended in 1972 and for which she is particularly identified.

Donald May

He was cast in 1964 in two other films, as Captain Anderson in A Tiger Walks, and as Secret Service agent John O'Connor in Kisses for My President, with Polly Bergen as the first woman President of the United States, with Fred MacMurray as "First Husband."

Fay Roope

But, primarily, he worked in comedies with such stars as Fred MacMurray, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, the Bowery Boys, Martin & Lewis, and Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride (Ma and Pa Kettle).

Grace Bradley

During her career she co-starred opposite such notable figures as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Alice Faye, Bruce Cabot, William Bendix, Fred MacMurray, Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, and W.C. Fields.

Kay Swift

Her 1943 book about life on his Oregon ranch, "Who Could Ask For Anything More?" was made into the 1950 movie Never a Dull Moment, which featured Fred MacMurray as the cowboy and Irene Dunne as Kay.

Patricia McNulty

McNulty had a recurrent role in the television series My Three Sons with Fred MacMurray (1961–1967) and also appeared in Hazel, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and Mr. Novak.

Ronne Troup

From this performance, Virginia Martindale, casting director for Don Fedderson Productions, offered her the role of Polly Williams Douglas, wife of Chip Douglas on My Three Sons, a role she played for two years (1970-72), opposite Fred MacMurray and London's best friend, Beverly Garland.

Ronnie Dapo

Dapo's acting ended in 1966 with two other roles: as Jimmy in the television movie Baby Makes Three and as Virgil 'Tiger' Higgins in the film Follow Me, Boys! starring Fred MacMurray and Kurt Russell.

Sam McDaniel

He appeared uncredited as a waiter on a train in both the 1947 film The Egg and I (with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert) and its first followup Ma and Pa Kettle (1949).


Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Following another western, The Moonlighter (1953), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, the studio attempted to repeat the success they had with House of Wax the previous year.

William A. Seiter

Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Jack Haley, Deanna Durbin, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and the Marx Brothers.