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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.
Sitting Pretty: Directed by Walter Lang. With Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn. A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.
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- Comedy, Family
- Walter Lang
- 1948-04
May 7, 2023 · 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 Davenpor...
- 84 min
- 285.2K
- DK Classics III
O'Hara is great and the movie overcomes Young's usual childish behavior. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/28/20 Full Review ashley h Sitting Pretty is an okay film. It is about a ...
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- Walter Lang
- Comedy
- Robert Young
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- 84 min
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Sitting Pretty was the first appearance of the Mr. Belvedere character on the screen, and his appeal was so likable that he would return again and again. Webb played him twice more, in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) and Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951).
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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.
