Post by topbilled on Apr 9, 2024 15:19:44 GMT
Clifton Webb was known as a ballroom dancer, and he appeared in several silent films when he was younger. When Otto Preminger cast him as the dangerous Waldo Lydecker in LAURA, he was given a role that would turn his entire career around. There would be another noir where he played a similarly nefarious character, but he soon found himself cast in lighter fare, which proved to be his niche. He hit his stride in films like SITTING PRETTY and its two sequels as the prissy but well-meaning Mr. Belvedere. He continued to star in motion pictures until his health declined in the early 1960s.
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LAURA (1944)
THE DARK CORNER (1946)
SITTING PRETTY (1948)