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Overworked parents Tacey (Maureen O'Hara) and Harry King (Robert Young) have three rambunctious sons and no time for themselves. So they place an ad for a live-in nanny, which is answered by one ...
- (24)
- Walter Lang
- Comedy
- Robert Young
With Sitting Pretty, Clifton Webb created his most enduring film character, the aesthetic and acid tongue, self-styled genius, Mr. Lynn Belvedere. He enters the lives of the King family by answering an advertisement Maureen O'Hara puts in a paper about needing a live-in baby sitter.
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. 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.
- (2.7K)
- Comedy, Family
- Walter Lang
- 1948-04
Sep 10, 2012 · Sitting Pretty 1948, directed by Walter Lang | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Hummingbird Hill in deepest suburbia, and stressed-out parents Young and O'Hara have seen their three brats...
Synopsis. Never was a baby-sitter like this! 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.
Luke Thorne’s review published on Letterboxd: Walter Lang’s Oscar-nominated family comedy about a residential couple with three sons and in desperate need of a babysitter. Starring Robert Young, Maureen O’Hara and Clifton Webb.
