Word: macmurray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nielsen ratings, but his opening program did not have the look of a winner as Gobel traded arch repartee with a fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey...
George Gobel Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). George Gobel trades gags with Guest Fred MacMurray...
...very qualities that made Meriwether Lewis and William Clark great explorers-coolheadedness, caution and iron self-discipline-are precisely the ones the moviemakers have thrown out the window. The Lewis and Clark of Far Horizons (Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston) are Hollywoodized into a pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins...
ROBERT R. MACMURRAY...
...depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde) and his too-enthusiastic wife (June Allyson...