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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell is a 1951 American comedy film, the third and final one starring Clifton Webb as Lynn Belvedere. It follows on from Sitting Pretty (1948) and Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949). Plot. Mr. Belvedere is on a lecture tour on the topic "How to be young, though 80".
Webb was billed in a starring role in Sitting Pretty, playing Mr. Belvedere, a snide, know-it-all babysitter. It was a huge hit and Webb received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Fox promptly put Webb in a sequel, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) where Belvedere has to complete his college degree and acts as matchmaker ...
With Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan Young. Belvedere discovers that he is ineligible for an honorary award because he never attended college. So he enrolls as a freshman in a major university, becoming the target for hazing from obnoxious upper class-man Alan Young.
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- Comedy
- Elliott Nugent
- 1949-05
Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted from the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport. The film stars Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Clifton Webb, about a family who hires the mysterious Lynn Belvedere to babysit their rowdy children.
His priggish Mr. Belvedere in a series of films was supposedly not far removed from his fastidious, finicky, fussy, abrasive and condescending real-life persona. He was inseparable from his overbearing mother Maybelle, with whom he lived until her death at 91, six years before his own death.
- January 1, 1
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Oct. 14, 1966 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Clifton Webb, suave star of the screen, died Thursday night in his Beverly Hills home at the age of 76. Mr. Webb had been in his residence at...
Clifton Webb, 72, Dies on Coast; Movies' Dignified Mr. Belvedere; Broadway Comedy Star Won Fame on Screen in Role of Babysitter - The New York Times.
