Fred MacMurray

The Cinematheque celebrates the beauty of film

2013-01-03 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque welcomes 2013 with "Motion Picturesque: Cinema at Its Most Beautiful" festival, which shines the spotlight on the visual splendor of motion pictures. The series opens Thursday at the Egyptian with Fritz Lang's influential...

Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

2012-09-02 17:15:00

As far back as Louis Lumi�re's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.�There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

Don Grady dies at 68; Mouseketeer, 'My Three Sons' star

2012-06-28 16:49:00

Don Grady, who sang and danced as a Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," played son Robbie on the long-running family sitcom "My Three Sons," and later became a composer and songwriter, died Wednesday. He was 68. Grady died at his home in Thousand...

The Review: Freddy Smalls

2012-06-16 00:00:00

No reservations. Loud. A gastropub from the Counter owner Jeff Weinstein and a consulting chef known for his vegetarian cooking. In theory, Freddy Smalls didn't sound all that appealing. Plus, it is small, making it almost a guarantee that you're going to...

IMAGE Wanton Ways

2012-04-01 16:39:30

Lost L.A.: Boys Republic and the Della Robbia wreath

2011-12-02 21:34:31

Lost L.A.: School gardens, an idea planted a century ago

2012-02-03 16:34:47

TCM Classic Film Fest: See home movies made by stars

2012-04-13 16:39:05

In author Betty MacDonald's footsteps

2011-09-04 00:00:00

The Betty MacDonald Farm is still everything its first owner described in her memoir "Onions in the Stew": a beautiful retreat with a breathtaking view of Puget Sound, lush fruit trees and bald eagles nesting just outside the windows. The farm in the...

The Reading Life: Happy birthday to me — and Raymond Chandler

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Watching the video clip, my heart raced. I'd seen the movie before, of course, but never realized what I was looking at: there, in the background of "Double Indemnity," was Raymond Chandler. His appearance in the movie he'd help script had gone...

Fred MacMurray, the not-so-Modern man

2011-10-02 16:34:22

Lost L.A.: For artist Mike Hart, a water world no more

2011-11-04 21:34:31

A scene from "Double Indemnity" starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck

2012-07-20 16:35:00

Don Grady, right, played Robbie on the long-running sitcom "My Three Sons," which also starred, from left, William Demarest, Barry Livingston, Stanley Livingston, Fred MacMurray and Tina Cole. In front is Tramp.

2012-07-19 00:00:00

, on the family sitcom "My Three Sons." He later became a composer and songwriter. He was 64.

2012-06-30 14:55:00