Follow Me Boys

Image Not Available Starring: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles Original UK Premiere: 1966 Dvd Release: 17th July, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Frederick Martin MacMurray was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. His most famous role was that of the father on the 1960s TV series My Three Sons. He was typecast for decades as a lovable, friendly fellow & he capitalized on this by starring in a number of live-action comedies for Walt Disney during the later part of his career, with his biggest hits being The Shaggy Dog & The Absent-Minded Professor. In spite of his nice guy image, MacMurray often stated that the best film roles he ever played were ones where he was cast against type in two films for Billy Wilder. He played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman who plots with a wealthy heiress to murder her husband in the film noir classic Double Indemnity. In 1960, he played a slimy, two-timing corporate executive in Wilders Oscar -winning comedy The Apartment. On his passing in 1991, Fred MacMurray was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California & was survived by his wife, June Haver. Posters Of Fred MacMurray

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Vera Miles is a American actress. She began her career as a beauty queen and, as a result, earned a minor part in Two Tickets to Broadway. She posed for cheesecake photos & married her leading man from Tarzans Hidden Jungle, Gordon Scott. Then John Ford cast her as Jeffrey Hunters spirited love interest in The Searchers & her career took a dramatic turn upward. A year later, she played Henry Fonda s beleaguered wife in Hitchcock s The Wrong Man. Pregnancy cost her the lead in Vertigo but Hitchcock did cast her as Janet Leigh s sister in Psycho, in which her character discovers the truth about Norman Bates mother. Following another stint for Ford in 1962 s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance she got her first parts at the Disney studio, in A Tiger Walks & Those Calloways. She continued to play roles in Disney into the 1970s. She did television series work for a time, then in 1983 she reprised her most famous role in Psycho II, vociferously protesting the proposed parole of killer Norman Bates.

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