Clifton Webb

…newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb)—and her sophisticated fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). Through their stories, which are told in flashback, through Laura’s letters, and—most of all—through a haunting portrait of her, McPherson becomes romantically obsessed with the young woman. The supposedly dead Laura shockingly appears before him in…

Koster then directed Clifton Webb in the comedies Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) and Elopement (1951) and in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952), a sentimental but colourful biopic about the composer John Philip Sousa. My Cousin Rachel (1952) was a suspenseful adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier…

Clifton Webb was nominated for an Oscar as the imperious Mr. Belvedere, an author doing research on life in suburbia. To that end he offers his services as a babysitter to a couple (Robert Young and O’Hara) whose three wild children have driven away every…

…liner; it starred Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, and Thelma Ritter.