Turner Classic Movies Brings Holiday Cheer to Movie Fans With Digitally Remastered Gem Remember the Night Nov 20, 2009
The critically acclaimed 1940 classic -- starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges -- will air several times throughout the month, most notably on Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. (ET) ... Remember the Night marked the first of four on-screen pairings of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck ... 8 p.m. - Remember the Night (1940), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film ... Nov 12, 2009
Double Indemnity, the great film noir from director Billy Wilder, in which Stanwyck uses sex to seduce Fred MacMurray into killing her husband for the insurance. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, an underrated noir thriller featuring Stanwyck's layered, complex performance as a murderess. (Suite101.com)
"My Three Sons" Cast Reunites, Reminisces Nov 7, 2009
"My Three Sons" cast: Fred MacMurray, left, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston and William Demarest ... Movie star Fred MacMurray was the star of the sitcom, stunning the film industry when he made the jump from the big screen to the small one ... He said, "There was not a lot of drama, and Fred MacMurray set the tone for that. He was a pretty conservative, straight-arrow guy.". (CBS News)
Best of Claudette is all set Nov 2, 2009
Also of considerable interest is Mitchell Leisen's "No Time for Love" (1943) starring Claudette as a fashion photographer who becomes involved with a rough-hewn sandhog (Fred MacMurray) -- a guy who digs subway tunnels ... Also of considerable interest is Mitchell Leisen's "No Time for Love" (1943) starring Claudette as a fashion photographer who becomes involved with a rough-hewn sandhog (Fred MacMurray) -- a guy who digs subway tunnels. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Turner Classic Movies & Universal Studios Home Entertainment Team Up to Offer Made-to-Order DVDs of Rare Films Oct 29, 2009
The first titles made available include five chilling horror films, three early Cary Grant pictures and the unsung 1940 holiday classic Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges ... This heart-warming holiday romance - penned by Preston Sturges - marked the first of four on-screen pairings of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and came four years before their iconic work in Double Indemnity ... Future Universal collections and... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Daily guide to television and radio Oct 15, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Art and soulless Aug 2, 2009
As a kid, I wanted to be adopted by the Brady Bunch, then Fred MacMurray from My Three Sons, and later by Raquel Welch, writes Charles Waterstreet. If there's one valuable lesson to be learnt from this wretched epidemic of swine influenza, it is that you should avoid exchanging bodily fluids with pigs, at all costs, especially if you are in Mexico, where you don't know with whom and where they have been. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Aug. 2) Aug 2, 2009
Jean Arthur finds herself legally married to both Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands (1940), part of a two-volume grab bag that also spotlights Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne, and Loretta Young. (Sony, $24. (Boston Globe)
'Lonesome Pine' On DVD Jul 14, 2009
ONE of the most beautiful movies ever made in classic Technicolor, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" arrives on DVD today in a gorgeous restoration of this backwoods melodrama starring Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray and Sylvia Sidney. The jury was still out on Technicolor's improved three-strip process -- the independently made "Becky Sharp" and "The Dancing Pirate" were flops -- when Paramount released the first major studio feature, and the first shot outdoors, in January 1936. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Critic's Corner Wednesday Apr 15, 2009
TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times. Movies don't get much better. (USA Today -- Life)
Double Indemnity Mar 27, 2009
Main Actors: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson ... Fred MacMurray stars as Walter Neff, a hapless salesman who is drawn into a scheme by the cunning Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) to knock off her husband and make off with the money. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Slam Dunk Films Mar 8, 2009
There have been great dramas, great documentaries and even a pretty good Fred MacMurray Disney film. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
One Life to Live actor Phil Carey dies at 83 Feb 11, 2009
He also starred with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak in Pushover. . (MSNBC -- Television)
Soap actor Phil Carey dies at age 83 Feb 11, 2009
and Columbia Pictures and starring roles with some of Hollywood's legendary actors, including Gary Cooper in "Springfield Rifle," Henry Fonda in "Mister Roberts," Peter Fonda in "Fighting Mad" and Tyrone Power in "The Long Gray Line." He also starred with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak in "Pushover.". Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
DVD reviews: Max Payne, Saw V Feb 7, 2009
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two The long-running comedy that debuted in 1960 casts Fred MacMurray as a widower raising three boys. The second half of the first season is packaged in a three-disc set. (MSNBC -- Movies)
