Sitting Pretty (1948) on Netflix
Tacey and Harry King, a suburban couple with three sons, have trouble holding on to a live-in nanny. Tacey's advertisement brings Lynn Belvedere, a man who declares he detests children.
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Plot summary
Harry and Tacey King live in the suburb of Hummingbird Hill, where Harry works as a lawyer. Their three sons, Larry, Tony and Roddy, and the family dog Henry, wear out one nanny after another until the latest one quits. Tacey places an advertisement for a live-in replacement and hires Lynn Belvedere without having met him. When he arrives, Belvedere turns out to be a man, and an odd one: he has a long list of skills and achievements to his name and says he dislikes children. The Kings keep him on a trial basis, and he wins the boys over. Both parents are curious about him, while his condescending manner annoys Harry.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sitting Pretty (1948)
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- Life photographer Loomis Dean visited the set of Sitting Pretty and photographed Clifton Webb with two then-unknown actresses, Laurette Luez and Marilyn Monroe, neither of whom appears in the film.
- John Payne was originally meant to play the husband in Sitting Pretty, and Celeste Holm was also cast in the film but exited to make The Snake Pit.
- The success of Clifton Webb as Belvedere led 20th Century Fox to commission six scripts for a Belvedere series, but only Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) and Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) were made; the studio canceled the series after the second film failed.
