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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 moreUser Comments:
Clifton Webb's first incarnation as "Mr. Belvedere" is a riot... moreCast
(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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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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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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As the self-proclaimed genius, Mr. Belvedere, CLIFTON WEBB delivers every line of dialog with such crisp authority that you believe he IS the eccentric character who volunteers his services as a live-in babysitter for ROBERT YOUNG and MAUREEN O'HARA and their unruly brood.
Webb simply steals every scene with skillful ease, except when RICHARD HAYDN enters the film as a snobbish, adenoidal neighbor who is another kind of genius at snooping. Before you know it, Belvedere has all of these citizens under his thumb, exposing the hypocrisy of small-town gossip in his novel, much the way Grace Metalious did when she pried open the lid of PEYTON PLACE.
It's all for laughs and never fails to delight. This is the film that really established Webb's long career at Fox in roles that seemed tailor-made for his kind of pompous charm.