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MacMurray's second wife, actress June Haver. MacMurray first met actress June Haver when they starred in Where Do We Go From Here in 1945, although they had little interaction. [40] By the early 1950s, Haver was grieving the sudden death of her fiancé Dr. John Duzik in 1949. In part because of her grief, Haver had considered a life as a nun.
Following her marriage to MacMurray in 1954, Haver mostly retired from acting (her last appearances were as herself on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour in 1958 and in Disneyland '59). Her final film appearance was in 1953's The Girl Next Door. Haver and MacMurray adopted two daughters and remained together until MacMurray's death in 1991.
The series was filmed in black-and-white and broadcast on ABC during its first five seasons, before moving to CBS for the remaining seven seasons, which were filmed in color. My Three Sons chronicles the life of widower and aeronautical engineer Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as he raises his three sons.
The beloved sitcom was a TV staple, airing on ABC for its first five years before moving to CBS. MacMurray passed away nearly two decades ago, but some of his on-screen family members are alive ...
[5] [6] In attendance at the ceremony and then later at Musso & Frank Grill for celebrations were his My Three Sons co-stars Fred MacMurray and his wife June Haver, Tina Cole, Stanley Livingston, Barry Livingston, and Dawn Lyn. In 1998, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. [7]
She achieved great success opposite Fred MacMurray in the comedy The Egg and I (1947), which was the year's second-highest grossing picture, and later acknowledged as the 12th-most profitable American film of the 1940s. [70] The suspense film Sleep, My Love (1948) with Robert Cummings was a modest commercial success. By 1949, she still ranked ...
She writes about her "first love," George Huvos, whose marriage proposal she turned down in order to pursue her dream of stardom as a dancer (yes, dancing — not acting — remains her first love).
Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in supporting roles as neighbors in The Egg and I, starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert as a refined city couple who move to a rural chicken farm. Marjorie Main, a veteran character actress , played a hardy country woman in dozens of films, so was a natural for the role of Ma Kettle.