“I was a star before I got more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm Springs and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were waiting to start a picture with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone else, but they came after me.”

American actor

Fred MacMurray was an American actor, active for nearly half a century, whose career ran from 1935 into the 1970s. He was known for more than one hundred films and for the television series My Three Sons. He is best remembered for Billy Wilder’s 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, which became his most renowned role. Later, from 1959 to 1973, he appeared in a string of Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire, and he played Steve Douglas in My Three Sons.