Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty (1948)

Never was a baby-sitter like this!

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.

Date of release
1948-03-10
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (49)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Walter Lang
Collection
Mr. Belvedere Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted from the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport. The film stars Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Clifton Webb, about a family who hires the mysterious Lynn Belvedere to babysit their rowdy children.

Production

The film was originally titled Belvedere just as the novel, but was changed to Sitting Pretty. John Payne was meant to play the role of the husband. Celeste Holm was also cast in the film, but exited to film The Snake Pit. Filming took place from October 23 to December 16, 1947.

Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck was immensely excited about the film in its production, while Webb – who had mostly been cast by Fox as sophisticated, superior upper-class characters – was cast in a departure from his previous genres. Webb also danced in the film, one of the rare chances he was able to showcase the dancing, singing, and comedic talents which made him popular on Broadway prior to his signing with Fox in 1944.

Photographer Loomis Dean visited the set to photograph the filming for Life and photographed Webb together with then-unknown actresses Laurette Luez and Marilyn Monroe, who do not appear in the film.

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