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OPENING NIGHT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* A grand tour of the New York World's Fair, with Host Henry Fonda and Special Guides Carol Channing, Fred MacMurray and Marian Anderson...
Nobody fooled himself that Hayden could act. Week after week he sat idly around the lot drawing $600 a month from Paramount Pictures and lifting weights in the studio gymnasium. Finaly he was given the second male lead, Behind Fred MacMurray and opposite Madeleine Carroll (whom he later married) in Virginia, and the big publicity boom...
...Flubber. In The Absent Minded Professor, Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber-and then put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks...