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He looks to a trio of suspects to solve the bloody crime; a newspaper critic (Clifton Webb), Laura's playboy fiance (Vincent Price) and Laura's socialite aunt (Judith Anderson). The mystery is turned on its head when the still very alive Laura reappears.
The film is an even mixture of noir, whodunit and psychological romance.The entire cast is picture perfect: Gorgeous Gene Tierney is the elusive Laura, a role she was born to play, Dana Andrews is the detective smitten with her painted portrait, Clifton Webb plays Laura's possessive benefactor, Vincent Price is her suspicious suitor, and Judith ...
Sep 1, 2024 · But in Laura you'd hardly notice Dana Andrews was hot for Gene Tierney, unless Clifton Webb kept pointing it out. Clifton Webb, you don't doubt has Laura on the brain: while Andrews fishes through her sock drawer and sniffs her perfume without sincerity. Subtlety, doesn't work in a movie like this, if obsession is your main theme, that's where ...
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. [3] 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.
Laura (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Natural Born Suspect Betrothed Shelby (Vincent Price), whom we've just met, and snooty columnist friend Waldo (Clifton Webb) are composed as they visit, with cop McPherson (Dana Andrews), the home of the murdered title character (Gene Tierney), with the famous theme introduced, in Otto Preminger's Laura, 1944.
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),...
Mar 17, 2005 · McPherson discovers that the victim inspired rabid, near-incomprehensible devotion from both cerebral newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb)—who bizarrely greets the cop by exiting his bathtub in the buff—and shallow, gold-digging two-timer Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), whom Laura was considering marrying in a week’s time.
