Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard. There are Lucille Ball museums located in the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida and Universal City, Los Angeles. He is interred in crypt 2350, corridor G-6, Abbey of the Psalms in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz founded Desilu Productions. He died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age seventy-six. The 'blowoff' of the scene is a square dance called by Cousin Ernie in the course of which the sheriff and his two Rubenesque daughters are tied up with a handy piece of rope. He retired after making the movie Satan Never Sleeps (1962). in a scene that takes placein the tiny Bent Fork Tennessee jail.

Webb's elegant taste kept him on Hollywood's best-dressed lists for decades. The Singing Jailbreak Ricky, Lucy, Fred, and Ethel- as well as Cousin Ernie have a songfest to cover the sounds they are making, cutting the bars on Lucy's jail cell.. When Webb's mourning for her continued for what seemed a prolonged period of time, his longtime friend, Noel Coward, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one.". Cousin Ernie and the citizens of Bent Fork and its environs are encountered several times during the course of the show's life. In fact, his character of Mr. Belvedere is said to have been very close to his real life–he had an extreme devotion to his mother, who lived with him until her death at age ninety-one. 'Cousin Ernie' (immaculately played by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford) is a stereotypical Country Boy in The Big City, in awe of the sophistication (as he perceives it) of his new hosts. Belvedere and in other movies flaunted his homosexuality, but his scrupulous private life kept him free of scandal. Lucy receives a letter informing her that her "Best Friend's Roommate's Cousin's Middle Boy" - of whom she has never heard - is coming to visit from "Bent Fork, Tennessee".

Webb's comically foppish mannerisms as Mr. The Cousin Ernie story arc. Thornton, who wants to go and stop a recent revival of his movies on TV, in Dreamboat (1952); John Philip Sousa in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); the doomed husband of Barbara Stanwyck in the 1953 version of Titanic; and John Frederick Shadwell in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). Lucy Tries to Meet the Famous Star - another recurring theme, many popular stars were eager to appear on the show, and hilarity ensues in countless episodes as a result of the character, Lucy's obsession with fame and the famous. Belvedere" features, beginning with Sitting Pretty (1948); the husband of Myrna Loy and father of twelve children in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); a silent movie star, Bruce Blair, called "Dreamboat," turned college professor, Prof. with the inevitable hilarious result, made only the more funny by the alliterative, tongue twisting product name and pitch. He also played the priggish title role in a series of comedic "Mr. the 'gag' being that, aside from tasting bad and having a name which only a clown would embrace, the product contained alcohol, and in numerous repeated rehearsals prior to the live spot, Lucy gradually and inexorably becomes half-crocked..

He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty. Ricardo as a slick television 'huckster' pitching a foul-tasting and alcoholic concoction (amusingly, Lucille the actress quite enjoyed the taste).. Webb received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1945 for Laura and in 1947 for The Razor's Edge. Vita-meata-vege-min - "Do you Poop Out at Parties?", "It's so tasty too!" Mrs. His first major motion picture roles came in his middle-age as the classy but villainous radio columnist Waldo Lydecker in the noir classic Laura (1944) and as the elitist Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946). complete with 'seltzer bottles' (a familiar clown prop) and slapstick. After a few silent movies, he was classified as a character actor and stereotyped as a fussy effete snob. The Stranger with a Kind Face (aka 'Slowly I turned' or 'Niagara Falls!') in which a veteran clown introduces Lucy Ricardo to some basics of the clown art, and is schooled in this classic (and at that time quite familiar) vaudevillian routine ..

Despite his impressive Broadway credentials, and some appearances on the London stage, he did not fare as well in Hollywood. The Mirror Gag - now a classic improvisational acting exercise (with Harpo Marx), in which Lucy, dressed as Harpo Marx encounters the real Harpo unexpectedly in a doorway, and mistakenly thinks she is looking into a mirror. Webb introduced George and Ira Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You" in Treasure Girl (1928); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" in The Little Show (1929); and Irving Berlin's "Not for All the Rice in China" in As Thousands Cheer (1933). Lucy in the Candy Factory - ("Speeeeeeed it Up a little!!") Lucy and Ethel attempt to get jobs -- for which they are demonstrably unprepared -- the classic candy-gobbling scene in this epidode is an American cultural icon. Over the next twenty-five years, the tall and slender performer, who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in numerous musicals and worked his way from featured dancer to leading man. Perhaps the best example of this gag is when Lucy shows up unannounced at Ricky's club, toting a clown-modified cello and pretending to be a musician, asking to speak with "Risky Riskerdoo" (Ricky Ricardo) this classic includes Lucy winding the cello's tuning peg as if it were a watch (to the accomaniment of ratcheting sounds) and shooting the cello's bow at Ricky's backside. Taking the stage name Clifton Webb, he was a professional ballroom dancer at age nineteen and appeared in about two dozen operas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road (1913). Lucy tries to Get into the Act - a recurring and almost omnipresent theme on the show, was that "talentless" plain old Lucy the Housewife dearly desired a chance to perform, as anything: a dancer, showgirl, clown, singing cowboy - or in any role. The real joke here is that Lucille Ball, aside from being regarded as beautiful, was also quite talented in a variety of performance arts, as well as being a ground-breaking television director.

He sang with the Boston Opera Company when he was seventeen. In the course of the television series, Lucy shared the screen with numerous famous clowns, prominent among these were Red Skelton and Harpo Marx. He made his stage debut at age seven. She is regarded as one of the best, ever, in the history of film and television at physical 'schtick'. Privately tutored, Webb also studied dance and acting. The setup of the show provided ample opportunities for Ball to display her skills at clowning and physical comedy. He didn't care for the theatre.". "Lucy! You got some 's-plainin' to do!" became a famous cry of Ricky Ricardo.

She dismissed questions about his father, a railroad manager, by saying, "We never speak of him. Considered by professional clowns to be one of their own, Lucile Ball's 'clown character' was, of course, "Lucy Ricardo", (nee "Lucille McGillicuddy" - an instantly recognizable'clown 'monikker') "Lucy Ricardo" was a friendly, ambitious and somewhat naïve housewife who was constantly getting into trouble of one kind or another. In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. and Lucie Arnaz to the Lake View Cemetery, in Jamestown, New York. He was born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck in Beech Grove, Indiana, the son of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867-May 2, 1939) and Mabelle A. Parmalee (March 24, 1869-October 17, 1960). Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989 and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, but was later moved by her children, Desi Arnaz, Jr. Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor. Following "I Love Lucy", Ball appeared in "The Lucy Show" which was later renamed "Here's Lucy." In 1986 she appeared in "Life With Lucy", which sadly was a critical and popular flop.

Father Bovard. Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set - to 'paint out' innappropriate shadows and disguise lighting flaws. Satan Never Sleeps (1962) (20th Century Fox) .. In filming I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz pioneered the '3-camera setup', now a standard in television. Robert Dean. From a production aspect, the use of actual film during production, instead of making just an inferior-quality kinescope as most other TV shows did at the time, paved the way for rebroadcast through syndication. Holiday for Lovers (1959) (20th Century Fox) .. Along the way, she pioneered the television sitcom, and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.

Horace Pennypacker. "I Love Lucy" was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Desi Arnaz, which had been badly strained by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule. Mr. This show became I Love Lucy. Pennypacker (1959) (20th Century Fox) .. She agreed, but insisted on working with her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. The Remarkable Mr. The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it as a television program.

Lynn Belvedere. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Charles/Slim Charles.

Belvedere Goes to College (1949) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Lynn Belvedere. Sitting Pretty (1948) (20th Century Fox) ..