Word: macmurray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoutmaster is portrayed by Fred MacMurray, whose numerous Disney movies (The Absent-Minded Professor and four others) have made him the studio's most popular character since Mickey Mouse. Fred presents the hero as the sort of six-foot sissy who plays with little kids because he's scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh...
Before he can say Baden-Powell, Scoutmaster MacMurray becomes a leading citizen of the small town that Producer Disney constructed long ago on the back lot of his studio-that typical Midwestern town where the California sun is so hot that the lawns need a fresh coat of green paint every day. He gets a job in the general store and marries the prettiest girl in town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds...
Princeton has trouble scoring. Anywhere but 15 yards from the opponents goal they play well, but that's not where it counts in the standings. The Tigers have a strong halfback trio of Robin Ross. Bill Reed and Frank MacMurray, Captain Walt Smedley and Jolyan Sprowles are good fullbacks...
...aims most of his episodes at the audience for bell-bottom farce - Actor Garner plays them like a nightclub comic imitating Fred MacMurray. Chayefsky further confuses the issues with a lardy interlarded love story -Actress Julie Andrews plays it as though abre-acting a childhood crush on Greer Garson. "All those men moaning," Julie tremulously murmurs to another young woman. "When they healed, they'd come hoping to spend their last nights of leave with me. I couldn't say no to them, could I? I'd just lost my husband at Tobruk, and I was overwhelmed...
Seems that Fred MacMurray is married to Polly Bergen, who becomes the first woman President of the United States. That makes Fred, in effect, mistress of the White House. While his wife runs the country, Fred runs the home. He plans the meals, looks after the children, goes shopping with visiting VIPs, sends the missus off to work with a kiss, and in the evening asks her how things went at the office. "Pretty well," she replies with a sigh. "But I'm dead tired. Mind if I go straight to sleep...