Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb

Born: November 18, 1889
Died: October 13, 1966
in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty. In the theatrical world he was known for his appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably Blithe Spirit.

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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: actor 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Satan Never Sleeps
Title: Satan Never Sleeps
Character: Father Bovard
Released: February 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Title: The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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Holiday for Lovers
Title: Holiday for Lovers
Character: Robert Dean
Released: July 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Title: The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Character: Mr. Horace Pennypacker
Released: February 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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Boy on a Dolphin
Title: Boy on a Dolphin
Character: Victor Parmalee
Released: April 19, 1957
Type: Movie
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.
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The Man Who Never Was
Title: The Man Who Never Was
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Released: April 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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Woman's World
Title: Woman's World
Character: Ernest Gifford
Released: September 30, 1954
Type: Movie
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, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Title: Three Coins in the Fountain
Character: John Frederick Shadwell
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by romancing an Italian who works at the agency; and office newcomer Maria meets a real Italian Prince Charming and falls madly in love. The only thing the three hopeful ladies need to do is seal their fate.
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Mister Scoutmaster
Title: Mister Scoutmaster
Character: Robert Jordan
Released: September 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: Richard Ward Sturges
Released: April 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
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Stars and Stripes Forever
Title: Stars and Stripes Forever
Character: John Philip Sousa
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Marine bandmaster John Philip Sousa (Clifton Webb) becomes famous for his marches and inspires the sousaphone.
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Dreamboat
Title: Dreamboat
Character: Thornton Sayre
Released: July 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
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Belles on Their Toes
Title: Belles on Their Toes
Character: Frank Gilbreth (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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Elopement
Title: Elopement
Character: Howard Osborne
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Title: Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Character: Mr.Belvedere
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
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For Heaven's Sake
Title: For Heaven's Sake
Character: Charles / Slim Charles
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Character: Frank Gilbreth
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Title: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Character: Lynn Belvedere
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Lynn Belvedere
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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The Razor's Edge
Title: The Razor's Edge
Character: Elliott Templeton
Released: November 19, 1946
Type: Movie
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Hardy Cathcart
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Waldo Lydecker
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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The Still Alarm
Title: The Still Alarm
Character: Bob Barclay
Released: June 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.
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The Heart of a Siren
Title: The Heart of a Siren
Character: Maxim
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
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New Toys
Title: New Toys
Character: Tom Lawrence
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
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Polly with a Past
Title: Polly with a Past
Character: Harry Richardson
Released: November 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.
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National Red Cross Pageant
Title: National Red Cross Pageant
Character: Dancer, The Pavane - French episode
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.