Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard. Anderson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1959 and thereafter was often billed as Dame Judith Anderson. He is interred in crypt 2350, corridor G-6, Abbey of the Psalms in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. She also loved the city of Santa Barbara, California and spent the remainder of her life there, dying of pneumonia in 1992. He died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age seventy-six. In 1984 she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the same year commenced a three year stint as matriarch Minx Lockridge on the popular soap opera Santa Barbara of which she had professed to be a fan. He retired after making the movie Satan Never Sleeps (1962). In her later years she played two more prominent roles in productions that took her as far away from her Shakespearean origins as possible.

Webb's elegant taste kept him on Hollywood's best-dressed lists for decades. Her stage and film work continued and by the 50s she was also appearing in television productions. When Webb's mourning for her continued for what seemed a prolonged period of time, his longtime friend, Noel Coward, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one.". She holds the unusual distinction of winning two separate Emmy Awards for playing the same role - Lady MacBeth - in two separate productions of MacBeth. In fact, his character of Mr. Belvedere is said to have been very close to his real life–he had an extreme devotion to his mother, who lived with him until her death at age ninety-one. She continued returning to the New York stage, playing the role of Lady Macbeth twice and winning a Tony Award in 1948 for her role in Medea. Belvedere and in other movies flaunted his homosexuality, but his scrupulous private life kept him free of scandal. This led to several film appearances during the 40s in such films as Kings Row (1943), Laura (1944), The Diary of a Chambermaid and And Then There Were None (both 1946).

Webb's comically foppish mannerisms as Mr. As the housekeeper Mrs Danvers, Anderson was required to mentally torment a young bride played by Joan Fontaine, even encouraging her to commit suicide and the character is widely considered to be one of the screen's most memorable female villains. Thornton, who wants to go and stop a recent revival of his movies on TV, in Dreamboat (1952); John Philip Sousa in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); the doomed husband of Barbara Stanwyck in the 1953 version of Titanic; and John Frederick Shadwell in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. Belvedere" features, beginning with Sitting Pretty (1948); the husband of Myrna Loy and father of twelve children in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); a silent movie star, Bruce Blair, called "Dreamboat," turned college professor, Prof. Preferring the stage, she did not appear in many films, and in Hollywood she was considered a character actress who was difficult to cast because of her striking features. He also played the priggish title role in a series of comedic "Mr. She established herself as a dramatic actress of note making several appearance in the plays of William Shakespeare.

He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty. Born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Anderson began acting in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. Webb received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1945 for Laura and in 1947 for The Razor's Edge. Judith Anderson (February 10, 1897 - January 3, 1992) was a stage and film actress. His first major motion picture roles came in his middle-age as the classy but villainous radio columnist Waldo Lydecker in the noir classic Laura (1944) and as the elitist Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946). 27. After a few silent movies, he was classified as a character actor and stereotyped as a fussy effete snob. "Dame Judith Anderson Dies at 93; An Actress of Powerful Portrayals." The New York Times. January 4, 1992.

Despite his impressive Broadway credentials, and some appearances on the London stage, he did not fare as well in Hollywood. Eric Pace. Webb introduced George and Ira Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You" in Treasure Girl (1928); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" in The Little Show (1929); and Irving Berlin's "Not for All the Rice in China" in As Thousands Cheer (1933). Over the next twenty-five years, the tall and slender performer, who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in numerous musicals and worked his way from featured dancer to leading man. Taking the stage name Clifton Webb, he was a professional ballroom dancer at age nineteen and appeared in about two dozen operas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road (1913).

He sang with the Boston Opera Company when he was seventeen. He made his stage debut at age seven. Privately tutored, Webb also studied dance and acting. He didn't care for the theatre.".

She dismissed questions about his father, a railroad manager, by saying, "We never speak of him. In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. He was born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck in Beech Grove, Indiana, the son of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867-May 2, 1939) and Mabelle A. Parmalee (March 24, 1869-October 17, 1960). Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor.

Father Bovard. Satan Never Sleeps (1962) (20th Century Fox) .. Robert Dean. Holiday for Lovers (1959) (20th Century Fox) ..

Horace Pennypacker. Mr. Pennypacker (1959) (20th Century Fox) .. The Remarkable Mr.

Lynn Belvedere. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Charles/Slim Charles.

Belvedere Goes to College (1949) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Lynn Belvedere. Sitting Pretty (1948) (20th Century Fox) ..