Sitting Pretty 1948 Maureen O’Hara, Robert Young & Clifton Webb

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. Upon its release by 20th Century Fox in April 1948, Sitting Pretty became a box-office success. Webb received critical praise for his performance of Belvedere, which spawned two sequels.