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April 1948 (USA) moreTagline:
NEVER WAS A BABY-SITTER LIKE THIS! (original print media ad - all caps)Plot:
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... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Vidya Balan looks forward to Paa's release in December (From BusinessofCinema. 6 October 2009, 9:20 PM, PDT)
Sitting Pretty – Clifton Webb, Maureen O’Hara
(From Alternative Film Guide. 13 August 2009, 4:55 PM, PDT)
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Refreshing and bolstering comic concoction. more (14 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Robert Young | ... | Harry King |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Tacey King |
| Clifton Webb | ... | Lynn Belvedere |
| Richard Haydn | ... | Mr. Clarence Appleton |
| Louise Allbritton | ... | Edna Philby |
| Randy Stuart | ... | Peggy |
 | Ed Begley | ... | Horatio J. Hammond |
| Larry Olsen | ... | Larry King |
| John Russell | ... | Bill Philby |
| Betty Lynn | ... | Ginger (as Betty Ann Lynn) |
| Willard Robertson | ... | Mr. Ashcroft |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dorothy Adams | ... | Mrs. Goul (scenes deleted) |
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83 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)Certification:
Finland:SFun Stuff
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Lynn Belvedere: Mrs. King, as I told you last night, I dislike children intensely and yours, if I may say so, have peculiarly repulsive habits and manners. moreSoundtrack:
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A very pleasant, agreeable little effort, dominated by the magnificent Clifton Webb - as sanguine and savourably sour a figure as rarely seen in Hollywood...
His character, Lynn Belvedere, is absolutely wonderful; wry, serene, roundly honest and arrogant; he is the focal point of the majority of the humour. The other actors are fine, with Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn and Robert Young more than capable supports. Yet... Belvedere's superiority is never in question: when asked at *what* he works, he simply and unequivocally states, "I am a genius".
Says it all really! There are so many witty one-liners, and amusing touches in comparison to many modern films on the same themes of babysitting and American suburbia. This is one of the most enjoyable films of its era; propelled to lofty heights by Clifton Webb's indomitable prescence. A touch of waspish, queer old England thrust into the picket-fence garden of American suburbia.