SITTING PRETTY – Clifton Webb, Maureen O’Hara
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Direction: Walter Lang
Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert; from Gwen Davenport’s novel Belvedere
Cast: Clifton Webb, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Young, Richard Haydn, Louise Allbritton, Randy Stuart, Ed Begley
In the late 1940s, the bucolic suburb of Hummingbird Hill is shaken in its tranquil complacency by the scandalous actions of two middle-aged, unmarried men. Each of these elitist, academic bachelors threaten the norm of twin beds, parlor games, and ladies who lunch. One escapes his overbearing mother in persistent eavesdropping and snooping; the other inserts himself as a platonic wedge between a husband and wife, usurping household authority with conceited pleasure.
The couple eventually separates under the strain, while the community itself is exposed for its flaws and hypocrisy. The convention of the two-parent, heterosexual family [...]
by Doug Johnson | August 13, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Clifton Webb, Comedies, F. Hugh Herbert, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Maureen O'Hara, Mr. Belvedere, Oscar 1948, Oscar Movies, Richard Haydn, Robert Young, Sitting Pretty, Walter Lang
