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Clifton Webb

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Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his roles in such films as Laura (1944), The Razor's Edge (1946), and Sitting Pretty (1948), all three being Oscar-nominated. [1]

132 relations: Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards, Al Jolson, Alan Ladd, American Red Cross, Arthur Schwartz, As Thousands Cheer, Barbara Stanwyck, Belles on Their Toes (film), Beverly Hills, California, Blithe Spirit (play), Boy on a Dolphin, Broadway theatre, Casino Theatre (New York City), Catholic Church, Century Theatre (New York City), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film), Chinese Civil War, Cole Porter, Comic opera, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dorothy McGuire, Dreamboat (film), Easter Parade (song), Elopement (film), Ewen Montagu, Film noir, Flying Colors (musical), For Heaven's Sake (1950 film), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Fred Allen, Gene Tierney, George Gershwin, Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Greece, Green Berry Raum, Henry Hathaway, Holiday for Lovers, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Howard Dietz, Humphrey Bogart, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I've Got a Crush on You, Indiana, Indianapolis, Ira Gershwin, ..., Irving Berlin, James Mason, Jerome Kern, John Philip Sousa, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film), Kankakee, Illinois, Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway), Laird Cregar, Laura (1944 film), Leo McCarey, Let Not Man Put Asunder, Liberty Theatre, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, List of actors with Academy Award nominations, Listen Lester, London Pavilion, Love O' Mike, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, Mama (TV series), Mao Zedong, Mary Hay (actress), Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, Meet the Wife (play), Mister Peabody, Mister Scoutmaster, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College, Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell, Myocardial infarction, Myrna Loy, National Red Cross Pageant, Ned Wayburn, Noël Coward, Operation Mincemeat, Oscar Wilde, Otto Preminger, Peggy Wood, Phi-Phi, Polly with a Past, Present Laughter, Richard Barthelmess, Robert Wagner, Royal Navy, Rudolph Valentino, Satan Never Sleeps, See America First, Shubert Theatre (New York City), Sicily, Sigmund Romberg, Silent film, Sitting Pretty (1948 film), Sophia Loren, St. Louis, Stars and Stripes Forever (film), Sunny (musical), Technicolor, Television, The Dark Corner, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Little Show, The Man Who Never Was, The Razor's Edge (1946 film), The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The Still Alarm (1930 film), The Washington Post, Three Coins in the Fountain (film), Titanic (1953 film), Tol'able David, Town Topics (musical), Treasure Girl, United Kingdom, Variety Obituaries, Vaudeville, Vitaphone, Walter Reisch, Will Rogers, Winter Garden Theatre, Woman's World (1954 film), World War II, You Never Know (musical), 20th Century Fox. Expand index (82 more) »

Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Alan Ladd

Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer.

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American Red Cross

The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States.

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Arthur Schwartz

Arthur Schwartz (November 25, 1900 – September 3, 1984) was an American composer and film producer.

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As Thousands Cheer

As Thousands Cheer is a revue with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1933.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model, and dancer.

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Belles on Their Toes (film)

Belles on Their Toes is a Technicolor film based on the autobiographical book Belles on Their Toes (1950) by siblings Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward.

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Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Casino Theatre (New York City)

The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway, at West 39th Street in New York City.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Century Theatre (New York City)

The Century Theatre, originally the New Theatre, was a theatre located at 62nd Street and Central Park West in New York City.

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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)

Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 Technicolor film based upon the autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Comic opera

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American actress.

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Dreamboat (film)

Dreamboat is a 1952 comedy film starring Clifton Webb as a college professor with a past he would rather remain hidden.

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Easter Parade (song)

"Easter Parade" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin and published in 1933.

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Elopement (film)

Elopement is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, and William Lundigan.

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Ewen Montagu

Captain The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, CBE, QC, DL, RNR (19 March 1901 – 19 July 1985) was a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Flying Colors (musical)

Flying Colors is a musical revue with a book, lyrics, and music by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz and sketch contributions by George S. Kaufman, Corey Ford, and Charles Sherman.

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For Heaven's Sake (1950 film)

For Heaven's Sake is a 1950 fantasy film starring Clifton Webb as an angel trying to save the marriage of a couple played by Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings.

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Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant and author, known as early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.

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Fred Allen

John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian.

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Gene Tierney

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year.

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Greece

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Green Berry Raum

Green Berry Raum (December 3, 1829 – December 18, 1909) was a lawyer, author, and U.S. Representative from Illinois, as well as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Henry Hathaway

Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer.

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Holiday for Lovers

Holiday for Lovers is a 1959 DeLuxe in CinemaScope comedy film directed by Henry Levin.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Howard Dietz

Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 – July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan

"I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" is a popular song.

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I've Got a Crush on You

"I've Got a Crush on You" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (also called Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett from the novel of the same name by Jules Verne.

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Kankakee, Illinois

Kankakee is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States.

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Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)

The Knickerbocker Theatre, previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre, was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway (West 38th Street) in New York City.

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Laird Cregar

Samuel Laird Cregar (July 28, 1913December 9, 1944) was an American stage and film actor.

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Laura (1944 film)

Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Let Not Man Put Asunder

Let Not Man Put Asunder is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick, produced and directed by J. Stuart Blackton, and distributed by Vitagraph, a company Blackton co-founded.

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Liberty Theatre

The Liberty Theatre was a Broadway theater from 1904 to 1933,Internet Broadway Database (Retrieved on February 22, 2008) located at 236 West 42nd Street in New York City.

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.

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List of actors with Academy Award nominations

This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each actor.

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Listen Lester

Listen Lester is a 1924 black-and-white silent film drama/comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, with a screen adaptation by Lewis Milestone and William A. Seiter, based upon the 1918 stage play of the same name.

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London Pavilion

The London Pavilion is a building on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street on the north-east side of Piccadilly Circus in London.

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Love O' Mike

Love O’ Mike is a musical comedy in two acts and a prologue with book by Thomas Sydney, lyrics by Harry B. Smith, and music by Jerome Kern.

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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (previously known as the Globe Theatre) is a Broadway theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.

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Lynn Aloysius Belvedere

Lynn Aloysius Belvedere is a fictional character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, and later adapted for film and television.

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Mama (TV series)

Mama is a weekly Maxwell House and Post Cereal-sponsored CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Mary Hay (actress)

Mary Hay (August 22, 1901 – June 4, 1957) was an American dancer, musical comedy and silent screen actress, playwright and former Ziegfeld girl, active over the decade popularly known as the Roaring Twenties.

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Maxine Elliott’s Theatre

Maxine Elliott’s Theatre was a Broadway theater located at 109 West 39th Street in Manhattan.

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Meet the Wife (play)

Meet the Wife was a 1923 three act Broadway comedy written by Lynn Starling and produced by Stewart and French, Inc.

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Mister Peabody

Hector Peabody (mostly referred to as Mr. Peabody) is a cartoon dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, produced by Jay Ward.

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Mister Scoutmaster

Mister Scoutmaster is a 1953 comedy film about Boy Scouts, starring Clifton Webb.

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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Mr.

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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

Mr.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.

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National Red Cross Pageant

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I. This pageant was a production put on in support of funding for America's participation in World War I, also known as the Great War.

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Ned Wayburn

Ned Wayburn, born Edward Claudius Weyburn, (March 30, 1874 – September 2, 1942) was a choreographer.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British disinformation strategy used during the Second World War.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Peggy Wood

Mary Margaret "Peggy" Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

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Phi-Phi

Phi-Phi is an opérette légère in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar.

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Polly with a Past

Polly with a Past is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by Leander de Cordova.

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Present Laughter

Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward.

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Richard Barthelmess

Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era.

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Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–70), Switch (1975–78), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), professionally known as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor in America who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino".

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Satan Never Sleeps

Satan Never Sleeps (also known as The Devil Never Sleeps) is a 1962 American film directed by Leo McCarey, his final film, in which he returns to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945).

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See America First

See America First is a comic opera with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Shubert Theatre (New York City)

The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sitting Pretty (1948 film)

Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film which tells the story of a family who hires Lynn Belvedere, a man with a mysterious past, to babysit their children.

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Villani Scicolone, known as Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I. (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress and singer.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stars and Stripes Forever (film)

Stars and Stripes Forever is a 1952 American Technicolor film biography of the late-19th-/early-20th-century composer and band leader John Philip Sousa.

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Sunny (musical)

Sunny is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner is a 1946 black-and-white film noir directed by Henry Hathaway starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 DeLuxe Color 20th Century Fox CinemaScope film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

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The Little Show

The Little Show was a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz.

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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 UK Second World War film, produced by André Hakim, directed by Ronald Neame, that stars Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame and Robert Flemyng.

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The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name.

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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

The Remarkable Mr.

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The Still Alarm (1930 film)

The Still Alarm (1930) is a short film starring comedians Fred Allen and Clifton Webb, and directed by Roy Mack.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Three Coins in the Fountain (film)

Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Maggie McNamara.

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Titanic (1953 film)

Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco.

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Tol'able David

Tol'able David is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1917 Joseph Hergesheimer short story of the same name.

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Town Topics (musical)

Ned Wayburn's Town Topics was a musical comedy revue that ran at the Century Theatre from 23 September 1915 to 20 November 1915.

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Treasure Girl

Treasure Girl is a musical with a book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Variety Obituaries

Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.

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Walter Reisch

Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 – March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter.

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Will Rogers

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.

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Winter Garden Theatre

The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan.

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Woman's World (1954 film)

Woman's World (also known as A Woman's World) is a 1954 Technicolor drama film about corporate America.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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You Never Know (musical)

You Never Know is a musical with a book by Rowland Leigh, adapted from the original European play By Candlelight, by and Karl Farkas, with music by Cole Porter and, lyrics by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert, directed by Leigh, and songs by others.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Webb

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