Clifton Webb
Also Known As: Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck
Biography: Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty. In the theatrical world he was known for his appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably Blithe Spirit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clifton Webb, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Birthday: November 19, 1889
Deathday: October 13, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Laura
Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-11
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The Dark Corner
Overview: Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-09
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National Red Cross Pageant
Overview: The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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Polly with a Past
Overview: Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-29
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Overview: "Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Overview: Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by romancing an Italian who works at the agency; and office newcomer Maria meets a real Italian Prince Charming and falls madly in love. The only thing the three hopeful ladies need to do is seal their fate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Stars and Stripes Forever
Overview: A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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The Man Who Never Was
Overview: The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Genres: Thriller War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-03
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Boy on a Dolphin
Overview: Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-19
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Overview: Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Titanic
Overview: Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-11
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Belles on Their Toes
Overview: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-19
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Sitting Pretty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Overview: A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Dreamboat
Overview: Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-26
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For Heaven's Sake
Overview: An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Mister Scoutmaster
Overview: Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-02
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Satan Never Sleeps
Overview: A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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Woman's World
Overview: Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Holiday for Lovers
Overview: Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Overview: In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-20
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The Still Alarm
Overview: Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-30
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Elopement
Overview: Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Overview: Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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New Toys
Overview: A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Overview: A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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The Heart of a Siren
Overview: This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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