Sitting Pretty

United States

1948

83 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Gwen Davenport, F. Hugh Herbert

CAST Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Robert Young, Richard Haydn, Randy Stuart, Louise Allbritton, Ed Begley, Larry Olsen, John Russell, Betty Lynn, Willard Robertson

PROD DES Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler

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. Mr. Belvedere works miracles with the children and the house but the Kings have no idea just what he’s doing with his evenings off. And when Harry has to go out of town on a business trip, a nosy parker starts a few ugly rumors. But everything comes out all right in the end thanks to Mr. Belvedere. —IMDb

Director

Walter Lang

Veteran film director Walter Lang’s well-known movies included “The King and I” and “Call Me Madam.” Lang graduated from the University of Tennessee, served in France with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and began his career as a Hollywood film director in 1927. He directed more than 50 movies during his career, most of them while associated with 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. Some of his other films include “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Cheaper By the Dozen,” “State Fair,” “Moon Over Miami,” “Tin Pan Alley,” “The Great Profile” and “Star Dust.” Lang, who worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, was nominated for an Oscar for “The King and I”.—Los Angeles Times