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Clifton Webb: Roles
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Webb received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty, the first in a three-film series of comedic "Mr. Belvedere" features with Webb portraying the snide and omniscient central character. In the 1950s and 60s, TV producers unsuccessfully continued trying to revive "Mr. Belvedere" as a sitcom character—Reginald Gardiner was the star of the first TV series pilot in 1956, followed by Hans Conried in 1959 and Victor Buono in 1965. When it finally did become a popular ABC series that ran for five years starting in 1985, "Mr. Belvedere", now reborn as the all-knowing male housekeeper to Bob Uecker, was portrayed by another gay actor, Christopher Hewett.
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Webb played a similar role in The Dark Corner (1946) as the wealthy art dealer Hardy Cathcart. Like Waldo, despite his seeming prissiness, Hardy is a dandy obsessed with a glamorous woman and resorts to murder when she rejects him in favor of a more "manly" male.
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[T]he twilight had arrived for Webb's life and career. Inconsolable in his grief, he completed a final role as an initially sarcastic, but ultimately self-sacrificing Catholic priest in Leo McCarey's Satan Never Sleeps. The film, which was set in China, showed the victory of Mao Tse-tung's armies in the Chinese civil war, which ended with his ascension to power in 1949, but was actually filmed in England during the summer of 1961, using sets from the 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which had the same milieu.
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