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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 1005 N ...
Aug 9, 2011 · For example, a squib published on 24 Aug. 1935 couched rumors of Webb and marriage in a rhetoric of incredulity: “Clifton Webb, believe it or not, is really serious in his attentions to Princess Natalie Paley … they really intend to marry and this is the truth, despite all of our ideas that this was one of Clifton's little practical jokes ...
In this superior film noir Webb was utterly unforgettable as the controlling would-be lover of a beautiful woman who doesn't return his attentions, to her eventual regret. He was nominated for a supporting Oscar. He was to follow this up with a similar role (indeed) in a Lucille Ball film noir, The Dark Corner (1946).
C lifton was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck on Nov. 19, 1889, at 355 N. Mississippi St., Indianapolis. The street, which no longer exists, was then in the heart of the city, near the railroad yards, where his father worked. He died Oct. 13, 1966, at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 76. He appeared in more than 25 movies was nominated ...
Clifton Webb. Actor: Laura. Already trained in dance and theater, he quit school at age 13 to study music and painting. By 19 he was a professional ballroom dancer in New York, and by his mid-twenties he was performing in musicals, dramas on Broadway and in London, and in silent movies. His first real success in film came in middle age as the classy villain Waldo Lydecker in Laura (1944),...
Jan 20, 2002 · It is Clifton Webb's performance as Waldo Lydecker that stands at the heart of the film, with Vincent Price, as Laura's fiancee Shelby Carpenter, nibbling at the edges like an eager spaniel. Both actors, and Judith Anderson as a neurotic friend, create characters who have no reality except their own, which is good enough for them.
Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty. ... (1953), in which Webb and onscreen wife ...
