Posted on 05/29/2015 8:07:33 PM PDT by DemforBush
A personal fave tonight. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler's superb film noir of a femme fatale (Barbara Stanwick) who draws an unscrupulous insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) into her arms and into her plans to rid herself of a troublesome husband...
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P.S.-He was a conservative, too.
Oh yeah. Forgot about him in that.
Actually I own that one.
I heard he made a killing in real estate.
Who done it.
or buck privates.
Yeah, I think he was very wealthy. He was a good man.
Interesting bit of trivia about My Three Sons and MacMurray: Fred had moved to Florida by that time, and was wanting to spend more time with his family. So, in order to get him to do the series, the studio agreed to film all of his scenes for an entire season at once. Once that was done, MacMurray headed home, and the rest of the cast would film the rest of each weekly episode without him.
It was considered sordid and un-filmable by the standards the industry had at the time. IT paved the way for many more darker views of human nature.
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