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...darling who takes Adwoman Russell's letters is dog-jawed, indestructible Fred MacMurray, an unsuccessful painter with a fallen stomach. His principal duties are to charm the suspicious wives of his boss's million-dollar accounts and to mind his manners around the brunette executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Clue to the Future | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...picture, and it is they who save it from being slow and second-rate. Akim Tamiroff is a Russian waiting for his citizenship papers, and Lee Tracy is a legless beggar who seems to enjoy pushing himself around underfoot on a little roller-skate wagon. Mary Martin and Fred MacMurray are perfectly adequate in their roles, which demand neither a minimum nor a maximum of acting ability...

Author: By J. M., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...engines (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week Germany's fat, blasty negotiator, Dr. Karl Clodius, made as threatening faces as his lardy jowls would permit. But Turkey's negotiator, Numan Menemencioglu, constantly in touch with British Ambassador Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen and U.S. Ambassador John van Antwerp MacMurray, quietly repeated that Germany could have no chrome until Turkey's pledge to sell its whole output to Britain expired in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Faces Made and Lost | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...ground, then you've seen about half this three hour naval recruiting poster. And the half you haven't seen is even duller than the half you have. Errol Flynn as a Harvard-Hopkins-Cambridge graduate is pretty and occasionally (three times to be exact) is amusing. Fred MacMurray and his two he-man buddies after razzing and then getting to like Flynn, M.D., all die in crashes. We hoped that Flynn did, too, but didn't wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

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