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Barefoot Executive (1971)A
young Kurt Russell stars in this good-natured comedy. Steve Stone
is an ambitious mailroom clerk at a third-rate television network
when he stumbles onto the fact that his girlfriend's pet
chimpanzee, Raffles, can pick ratings winners. Suddenly he's well
on his way up the corporate ladder and getting his network to No. 1.
Keeping Raffles and his abilities a secret provide the perfect
setting for wacky, wicked comedy. The truly funny cast of Joe
Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, John Ritter, and others make up
the executives and their cohorts. Not wanting to be made fools of,
the executives try to save their dignity as well as their jobs by
relocating Raffles. There's lots of physical comedy and downright
silliness. Talk about monkey business! Released in 1971, this film
can appear dated at times, but the story still holds up today. A
likable, fun movie that harks back to a time of innocent mischief.
Refreshingly void of techno gadgets and helmet laws, this film is
just good, clean, wholesome fun for the whole family. --Peggy
Maltby-Etra 
Wally Cox Filmography:
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Wally Cox (1924 - 1973)
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From What
a Character
Excerpt:
No more odd couple could be imagined than the
mousy Wally Cox and his life-long friend and one-time roommate
Marlon Brando. The two roomed together when Brando came to New
York to study with Stella Adler, but Cox ultimately moved out
because he could no longer stand Brando’s pet raccoon. Born in
Detroit, Michigan, Cox sprang into the nation’s consciousness
when he was cast as school teacher “Robinson Peepers” in the
1952 TV series Mr. Peepers...
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From Live
From Hollywood: Claude Knobler's Hollywood Report
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Marlon Brando and Wally Cox: Cox, best known for
playing "Mr. Peepers" on TV, and Brando became such
close friends that after Cox's death, Brando had him cremated and
still talks to his ashes to this day. Psychologists say it's
perfectly normal except for those few times Brando used the ashes
as a substitute for bacon bits...
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Hadleigh: James Dean and Nick Adams were
roommates, as I'm sure you know. Were they also lovers?
Sal Mineo: I didn't hear it from Jimmy, who was
sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel. But Nick told me
they had a big affair- I don't know if it was while they were
living together or not. But there's always the roomie thing in
Hollywood- Brando and Wally Cox, Brando and Tony Curtis, Cary
Grant and Randolph Scott- and there are always rumors about them,
even if they aren't true. I think Hollywood secretly wants
to think it's true...
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