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Tag Archives: Clifton Webb
Holiday for Lovers (1959) Henry Levin, Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John
When the oldest daughter decides to stay in South America while on a school tour Read More »
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) Henry Koster, Clifton Webb, Joanne Dru, Hugh Marlowe
An urbane, sharp-tongued expert on how to stay young interrupts a lecturing tour Read More »
For Heaven’s Sake (1950) George Seaton, Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings
Two angels, Charles and Arthur, are sent down to retrieve a young girl who has selected Read More »
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) Elliott Nugent, Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake
Clifton Webb recreates his Sitting Pretty role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere, the World’s Greatest Genius. Read More »
Satan Never Sleeps (1962) Leo McCarey, David W. Orton, William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen
A priest (William Holden) arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl Read More »
Laura (1944) Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the killing of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) Read More »
Mister Scoutmaster (1953) Henry Levin, Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow
Snobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that’s why his TV show is failing. Read More »
Womans World (1954) Jean Negulesco, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Clifton Webb
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success Read More »
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) Walter Lang, Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain
“Cheaper By the Dozen”, based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey Read More »
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) Henry Koster, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Biography, Comedy, Music
In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little Read More »
Sitting Pretty (1948) Walter Lang, Robert Young, Maureen O’Hara, Clifton Webb, Comedy
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Read More »
Dreamboat (1952) Claude Binyon, Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Comedy
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it. Read More »
The Man Who Never Was (1956) Ronald Neame, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, War, Drama
British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift its forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion that England is in fact planning to invade Greece, they plan to procure a dead body, plant secret papers on it, and arrange for the Spanish authorities to find it and send the papers on to the Germans. That’s the plan, anyway. First they have to find a body that will look drowned, then create an identity for it that will pass German scrutiny. Based on a true story.
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