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Feb 14, 2021 · Though Webb played a gossip columnist on the silver screen, he couldn't prevent conversations of his sexuality from constantly being had in real-life media. He was linked romantically to James Dean, though there is no proof of this to be found. He never married and was never seen out on dates.
Early life. Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the only child of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867 – May 2, 1939), the ticket-clerk son of a grocer from an Indiana farming family, and his wife, the former Mabel A. Parmelee (Parmalee or Parmallee; March 24, 1869 – October 17, 1960), the daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor.
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.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- October 13, 1966
- November 19, 1889
In 1892, Webb's mother, now called "Mabelle", moved to New York City with her beloved "little Webb", as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about her husband, Jacob, who like her father, worked for the Indianapolis-St. Louis Railroad, by saying, "We never speak of him.
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 ...
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.
Mid-Century Hollywood. by Leonard Leff. Abstract: Attentive to a wide range of signs that mark queerness, "Becoming Clifton Webb" not only shows that Webb was perceived as queer in the mid-twentieth century but argues that, coincident with Sexual Behavior and the Human Male (1948), he helped introduce moviegoers to the "new" homosexual of.
