1948 - SITTING PRETTY , late 1940's period comedy

Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young play a husband and wife living in the suburbs with three hyper active children. Unable to find any kind of help with the children, the wife runs an advertisement in the paper and ends up with actor Clifton Webb playing a character named Lynn Belvedere a person who bills himself as a "genius." Belvedere's strict approach to child care results in his bringing order to the household much to the relief of the parents.  But Mr. Belvedere appears to have other reasons for living with this family.

This is a very enjoyable comedy from 20th Century Fox studio which was mostly a show piece for actor Clifton Webb  essentially repeating his witty Waldo Lydecker character from his debut film Laura, this time without actually murdering someone as he did in that film.

 

The film has lots of amusing situations and you kind of get a feeling for what life might have been like in the post World War II world in the United States.  The film was a modest production but a hit for Fox Studio.  Webb's character was so popular he appeared in two more films playing the Lynn Belvedere character.

 

The film was written by F. Hugh Herbert and the running time is 83 minutes.