Sitting Pretty (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6700 kbps | 4.3Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Comedy
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6700 kbps | 4.3Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Comedy
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn, Louise Allbritton, Randy Stuart, Ed Begley, Larry Olsen, John Russell, Betty Lynn, Willard Robertson, Dorothy Adams, Charles Arnt, Gertrude Astor, Barbara Blaine, Ken Christy, Mary Field, Raymond C. Hair Jr., Grayce Hampton, Iris James, Ellen Lowe, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lee MacGregor, Marion Marshall, Thomas Martin, Roddy McCaskill, Mira McKinney, Dave Morris, Jane Nigh, Anne O'Neal
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the job of baby-sitting the troublesome children of Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara; he wins the job by calmly dumping a bowl of cold oatmeal on the head of the couple's most contentious offspring! At first the family chafes at Belvedere's imperiousness and unlimited resourcefulness, but gradually everyone–especially the children–grow quite fond of the man. The couple's snoopy neighbor (Richard Haydn), noting that Belvedere spends quite a lot of time in the house when the husband is away, begins spreading rumors of a clandestine affair. Belvedere only fuels the flames of innuendo by working on a "secret project" in his room. That project turns out to be a book about the community where he is staying, a revealing volume that exposes the pettiness and hypocrisy of several respectable citizens. Robert Young nearly loses his job over the ensuing scandal, but when the community becomes world famous and the object of increased business activity, Belvedere is the hero of the day. Clifton Webb made so vivid an impression as Mr. Belvedere that he repeated the role in two sequels, and played variations of Belvedere (with emphasis on his "child psychology" tactics) in such films as Cheaper by the Dozen and Mr. Scoutmaster. After numerous failed attempts at launching a TV series based on the Gwen Davenport-created character, Mr. Belvedere settled into a long video run in 1985, with Christopher Hewett in the title role and sportscaster Bob Uecker as Belvedere's nonplused employer.
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Sitting Pretty (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
