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Clifton Webb was Wonderful as Waldo Lydecker in LAURA- tried to make an over the tub tray as he used whilst typing in the bath and ATTEMPTED to eat lasagna- you guessed it- spilled… swimming with eels?!? 😖😖😖❗️
Did i miss something? His mum was discussed a lot here, but not his sexuality. In any event, the more appropriate question is Could Clifton Webb have been anything else? Answer: No. Watch him in The Razor's Edge as a bitter loveable old queen. It was his best performance cuz it wasn't a performance. It was Clifton irl.
The title of this video made me laugh out loud. A touching item: Fred Astaire penned a condolence letter following the death of Webb's mother. Postmarked October 19, 1960, it was sold online in 2006. Heritage Auctions still has a scan of it on their website. Wish I would have bid. :o)
Like John Wayne, he didn't act. The person on the screen was Clifton Webb. He was as good villain as hero. In comedy, he was the straight man to a comic world.
I can't believe you used the phrase "unless he was caught balls deep....! 😛" DUH! Clifton Web, NOT being gay is more of a shock. Sad that he, like so many, could not be out then. "Dandy," as you called him, is as close as this character type you could get as a descriptor. Hollywood never knew what to do with a leading actor (or actress) who did not fall into a sex symbol context. Unless they were 'fuckable' they did not know how to promote them.
Well the reason why they could not be out then is because we had morality then. Judeo-christianity was a thing it's eventually going to be as well. The shit that's going on now grooming of children with drag queen shows, trust me, as an engineer looking at system stability, we are heading for a major conflagration of an exceptionally violent nature and it may be the only thing that puts us on a course correction before we self-destruct. And we are on a self-destructive path but there will be a correction and that correction will be beyond anything I've ever experienced before.
Look at Tracy and Hepburn. Bogart. Cagney. Stanwyck. Bette Davis. David Niven. No sex symbols, not even particularly handsome/beautiful, and they worked steadily for decades. Often longer careers than the sexy ones of either gender.
@@samadams6487 What the heck are you doing on this board, aside from spewing your ancient, self-serving nobler-than-thou tsk-tsking, informing us what's right or wrong? It's my impression that you, yourself, will wind up you-know-where in a handbasket for being such a judgmental clod.
Very good, informational and entertaining as usual but, might we now get-to THE subject of the genre it's self? Meaning as-in . . . Edward Everett Horton? We gossips require the full low-down here on this one. (Ha! He was my dad's valet in the Hottentot filming days. I consider myself most lucky to even exist!)
Webb was an outstanding actor. As for his personal life, his preferences were a semi-open secret during his life and have been common knowledge among Hollywood movie buffs and biographers since his death.
Where have you been. Clifton Webb it was well known in Hollywood , that he was gay. When he was picked for “Laura” the head of the studio was against him being cast because he felt Webb was too effeminate. I’m glad that he was still hired, because he did an excellent job in that movie. He was a very good actor and he could act in drama as well as comedy
@@paulamiles9559 yes but O’Selznick was really against him. I’m glad Preminger won that argument. I always enjoyed his movies, but although he did a beautiful job on dramas his comedies especially the Mr. Belvedere series were my favorites. He did do another movie where he played a pries, I believe co staring with William Holden. It was a good movie. Do you remember the name?
@@LB-px9td Ha! I so loved in Mr Belvedere Goes to College, where the pole vaulter chokes, and Mr Belvedere, in his freshman Beanie, steps in and breaks the previous record held by...Lynn Belvedere.
@@paulamiles9559 Yes I loved that one as well as Sitting Pretty when he went to baby sit the three kids. I believe that was the first Belvedere movie. He was great.
Did not know there was a question about his sexual preference! However, he was a good actor and I am sure he would be out today.I believe most here would know his attachment and close relationship with his mother.
It is amazing to me that Webb and Fred Astaire never made a movie together since Webb was a singer and dancer , He made a non singing/dancing movie with Ginger Rogers . I think of the The Band Wagon, instead of the similar Jack Buchanan . I also read somewhere that in their earlier days on Broadway Webb and William Frawley of later ILL fame had some type of disagreement and Frawley punched Webb in the nose . Everyone knows of the famous picture taken of Clifton Webb seemingly minding his business while Jayne Mansfield is showing up Sophia Loren at that dinner , but where is the picture of Webb eating candy with Marilyn Monroe and the third lady from ?
My mom said that everyone took it for granted that Clifton Webb was gay back in the forties, and I presume she's talking about people in Des Moines, like herself. Lots of Hollywood actors who specialized in playing "eccentrics" - Franklin Pangborne, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, were gay and pretty much recognized as such by the audience. Clifton Webb was unique among them as he rose to the level of star, with his name above the title in many films. Yes, there were plenty of gay stars, like Charles Laughton or Van Johnson, but they weren't known as gay to most of their contemporary audience.
Sorry. I could not listen to this to the end, although I enjoyed the part of the video when you were discussing Webb's career and his relationship with his mother. All the talk of ghostly sightings however, bored me to tears. Such things have never been my experience and furthermore, the use of psychics and the contacting of 'spirits' of the dead, smacks to me of the demonic. Such matters instinctively invoke a visceral response of disgust in me. That being said, I respected Webb as an actor and perhaps my favourite role of his was in "The Razor's Edge".
dude.....Clifton Webb...lived an OPENLY gay life and lived with his mom all his life...he is a favorite actor of mine...but ALL of Hollywood knew Webb a great party giver and a very decent man was gay.....any bio of the time will inform you of that
He seems like he was petrified to have a fling with another man for fear someone might find out he was gay. Robert Wagner said Webb was going to marry when he was a young guy, but Webb's mother was too overbearing, so the wedding was squashed. I think that was bull becuase Robert Wagner was a friend of Clifton Webb's, and I think Robert Wagner is trying to protect Webb's image. Many of the movie stars of the golden era of Hollywood who were alive in recent times, would still never reveal fellow movie stars who were in the closet even though the actor or actress has been long dead.
@@mediterraneandiet2483 "Homosexual" is a slur now and has been for a long time. It's passive-aggressive targeting gay people, using a clinical word that for years denoted a mental illness. If you deny using that word doesn't have an anti-gay agenda, you're being coy.
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This subject has been covered before…..
Wether or not he was gay is irrelevant to me, he was just a Damn great actor….
It's even NOT a subject.
Webb lived an openly gay life and every person in hollywood knew he was gay and knew he was a very decent man
@@jadezee6316
Yes, I know, but for some reason this video was coy about it
I don't even think you need good gaydar to sense that. He was a very good actor, always a strong supporting character.
That was never a conjecture; it is well-known
It has been known forever! ❤
Noel Coward was a close friend, so yeah, LOL
@@omfug7148 dude if i told you who were gay you would never believe it....because all you know are stereotypical images which you assume correct
@@jadezee6316 I grew up in LA around the business, believe me, I have good gaydar.
All it took to make me think he was gay is when he spoke
Yes he was gay. Big deal. That was his business and I just don't get the fascination with other people's sexuality.
" Everyone's queer except me and thee, and even thou art a little queer " William Penn.
Clifton Webb was Wonderful as Waldo Lydecker in LAURA- tried to make an over the tub tray as he used whilst typing in the bath and ATTEMPTED to eat lasagna- you guessed it- spilled… swimming with eels?!? 😖😖😖❗️
😎😎😎
I can't believe your asking such a well known rhetorical question.
Clifford Webb was a great actor.
Unbelievably great actor. Funny as all get out in the Belvedere movies; moving in several roles. Loved his movies all my life, since early childhood.
Did i miss something? His mum was discussed a lot here, but not his sexuality. In any event, the more appropriate question is Could Clifton Webb have been anything else? Answer: No. Watch him in The Razor's Edge as a bitter loveable old queen. It was his best performance cuz it wasn't a performance. It was Clifton irl.
He was so wonderful! " Take this down, Mr Elliott Templeton regrets..."
@@paulamiles9559 🤣🤣 Hell Yass!!
Dawn breaks over Marblehead! Maybe that was the point. It's so obvious, no answer required.
The title of this video made me laugh out loud. A touching item: Fred Astaire penned a condolence letter following the death of Webb's mother. Postmarked October 19, 1960, it was sold online in 2006. Heritage Auctions still has a scan of it on their website. Wish I would have bid. :o)
Like John Wayne, he didn't act. The person on the screen was Clifton Webb.
He was as good villain as hero. In comedy, he was the straight man to a comic world.
I can't believe you used the phrase "unless he was caught balls deep....! 😛"
DUH! Clifton Web, NOT being gay is more of a shock. Sad that he, like so many, could not be out then. "Dandy," as you called him, is as close as this character type you could get as a descriptor. Hollywood never knew what to do with a leading actor (or actress) who did not fall into a sex symbol context.
Unless they were 'fuckable' they did not know how to promote them.
Well the reason why they could not be out then is because we had morality then. Judeo-christianity was a thing it's eventually going to be as well. The shit that's going on now grooming of children with drag queen shows, trust me, as an engineer looking at system stability, we are heading for a major conflagration of an exceptionally violent nature and it may be the only thing that puts us on a course correction before we self-destruct. And we are on a self-destructive path but there will be a correction and that correction will be beyond anything I've ever experienced before.
Look at Tracy and Hepburn. Bogart. Cagney. Stanwyck. Bette Davis. David Niven. No sex symbols, not even particularly handsome/beautiful, and they worked steadily for decades. Often longer careers than the sexy ones of either gender.
@@samadams6487 What the heck are you doing on this board, aside from spewing your ancient, self-serving nobler-than-thou tsk-tsking, informing us what's right or wrong? It's my impression that you, yourself, will wind up you-know-where in a handbasket for being such a judgmental clod.
Very good, informational and entertaining as usual but, might we now get-to THE subject of the genre it's self?
Meaning as-in . . . Edward Everett Horton?
We gossips require the full low-down here on this one.
(Ha! He was my dad's valet in the Hottentot filming days.
I consider myself most lucky to even exist!)
Great video and so much information.He had is own style of acting.l never thought about him being gay.
It was obvious and I'm straight
You’re asking? Duh!!! He was as closeted as they come! I love him!
Everyone has known for ye now that he was gay. This comes as no surprise. A great actor, BTW!
If he was he kept it private and probably had a rule against getting together sexually with others in the same business.
Who cares, just watch the Mr. Belvedere movies and the movie "Laura" and you can witness pure acting genius. RIP Mr. Webb.
Webb was an outstanding actor. As for his personal life, his preferences were a semi-open secret during his life and have been common knowledge among Hollywood movie buffs and biographers since his death.
Webb never hid his gay life style lived basically open and everyone knew...
Of course he was homosexual!! Duh!
Thanks AOV❤️
Where have you been. Clifton Webb it was well known in Hollywood , that he was gay. When he was picked for “Laura” the head of the studio was against him being cast because he felt Webb was too effeminate. I’m glad that he was still hired, because he did an excellent job in that movie. He was a very good actor and he could act in drama as well as comedy
Preminger insisted on casting him. It's hard to believe but it was Webb's first movie role.
@@paulamiles9559 yes but O’Selznick was really against him. I’m glad Preminger won that argument. I always enjoyed his movies, but although he did a beautiful job on dramas his comedies especially the Mr. Belvedere series were my favorites. He did do another movie where he played a pries, I believe co staring with William Holden. It was a good movie. Do you remember the name?
@@LB-px9td Ha! I so loved in Mr Belvedere Goes to College, where the pole vaulter chokes, and Mr Belvedere, in his freshman Beanie, steps in and breaks the previous record held by...Lynn Belvedere.
@@paulamiles9559 Yes I loved that one as well as Sitting Pretty when he went to baby sit the three kids. I believe that was the first Belvedere movie. He was great.
@@LB-px9td Yes it was so good. The priest movie you mentioned is Satan Never Sleeps. The beautiful France Nguyen was in it too.
I want to hear Clifton's story. Thanks.
Even as a child watching space family Robinson , I took this as a given I cannot imagine anyone not being cognisant of this
Of course he was, he never hid it or denied it. Old news.
Did not know there was a question about his sexual preference! However, he was a good actor and I am sure he would be out today.I believe most here would know his attachment and close relationship with his mother.
Love Clifton Webb brilliant actor
Thanks for the knowledge.
Flaming, you could tell in one sentence. Living with mommy all your life is icing on the cake.
…he was never caught “balls deep”!! 🤣🤣🤣
It is amazing to me that Webb and Fred Astaire never made a movie together since Webb was a singer and dancer , He made a non singing/dancing movie with Ginger Rogers . I think of the The Band Wagon, instead of the similar Jack Buchanan . I also read somewhere that in their earlier days on Broadway Webb and William Frawley of later ILL fame had some type of disagreement and Frawley punched Webb in the nose . Everyone knows of the famous picture taken of Clifton Webb seemingly minding his business while Jayne Mansfield is showing up Sophia Loren at that dinner , but where is the picture of Webb eating candy with Marilyn Monroe and the third lady from ?
is any hollywood stars who is not gay or bisex?
My mom said that everyone took it for granted that Clifton Webb was gay back in the forties, and I presume she's talking about people in Des Moines, like herself. Lots of Hollywood actors who specialized in playing "eccentrics" - Franklin Pangborne, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, were gay and pretty much recognized as such by the audience. Clifton Webb was unique among them as he rose to the level of star, with his name above the title in many films. Yes, there were plenty of gay stars, like Charles Laughton or Van Johnson, but they weren't known as gay to most of their contemporary audience.
A topic that interests me is if Jack Paar might have been a homosexual....
You could make a video on it if you find any information.
You are mistaken. Clifton Webb did not die of a heart attack; he died on the titanic. I know. I saw him.
😆 me too!
How could Lynn Belvedere die? He must be around here somewhere...o I know! Dana Andrews shot him.
hugh?
I love❤️Clifton Webb!
It seems many were. Rock Hydson was macho but he was gay.
The mustache is a giveaway
Like Tom Selleck?
@@robertdragoff6909 exactly
Sorry. I could not listen to this to the end, although I enjoyed the part of the video when you were discussing Webb's career and his relationship with his mother. All the talk of ghostly sightings however, bored me to tears. Such things have never been my experience and furthermore, the use of psychics and the contacting of 'spirits' of the dead, smacks to me of the demonic. Such matters instinctively invoke a visceral response of disgust in me.
That being said, I respected Webb as an actor and perhaps my favourite role of his was in "The Razor's Edge".
love this guy!
Didn't know anything about that but all I can say is that somebody took him out of his closet case
dude.....Clifton Webb...lived an OPENLY gay life and lived with his mom all his life...he is a favorite actor of mine...but ALL of Hollywood knew Webb a great party giver and a very decent man was gay.....any bio of the time will inform you of that
He seems like he was petrified to have a fling with another man for fear someone might find out he was gay. Robert Wagner said Webb was going to marry when he was a young guy, but Webb's mother was too overbearing, so the wedding was squashed. I think that was bull becuase Robert Wagner was a friend of Clifton Webb's, and I think Robert Wagner is trying to protect Webb's image. Many of the movie stars of the golden era of Hollywood who were alive in recent times, would still never reveal fellow movie stars who were in the closet even though the actor or actress has been long dead.
When Jonathan Harris first appeared on ‘’Lost in Space’’ I thought it was Webb, although I didn’t know the actors name - I was only 10.
Omg me 2 Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣 plus I had no idea that Harris wz born in the Bronx I thought he wz English
Who cares if he was homosexual? He was loved by millions. Me being one of them. And yes I'm a female. 💯
I could care less, all I know I enjoyed his acting.
If you really didn't care, you wouldn't have clicked because of the lurid title of this video.
He's been dead a very long time. Most likely anyone who knew him is also toes up. Speculation isn't cool.
How silly to ask! I assumed that the title here was chosen in irony.
Is the Pope Catholic ?
Was Marilyn Monroe straight? > rather dull questions.
Probably.....he was in the theatre wasn't he?
Bent as a 2 Bob watch
" no clue"!
Hollywood On the Down Low.
Clifton was a great actor . Who cares if he was gay . The guy was a very good actor. His private life was his private life . RIP
If he wasn't gay, neither am I...not that it matters. He played some roles that only he could play.
"he wasnt caught balls-deep in another actor"???? that was a pretty crude description. 🧐
A carta que mandei pra suferir um comercial do omo com a foto da Iolanda sentada no tanque com a Inês no colo.
It's nobody's business.
If you’re using the word, “homosexual”, in the year 2023…
Incidentally, who decides on what words can or cannot be used?
I do every day and I am one...
@@mediterraneandiet2483 "Homosexual" is a slur now and has been for a long time. It's passive-aggressive targeting gay people, using a clinical word that for years denoted a mental illness. If you deny using that word doesn't have an anti-gay agenda, you're being coy.
@@akrenwinkle The word Heterosexual is still used in everyday speech.
Oh my gosh, who cares and why the obsession with knowing???? He was a wonderful actor!! Get a life!!!!
Good grief, it's a common fact that Clifton Webb was Gay.
What else could he have been?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Could he have been? Ask his male lovers 😮
Regardless, he was a dandy actor.
The man is dead, so does it make difference today?
LOL, is the Pope Catholic? Clifton was a fine actor.
Yes! He was gay! So was Rock Hudson.
Is this really important ? We are in 2023.
Nunca me responderam
Protector de su novio James Dean!!!.
Everyone knew he was
DUH?!
Why are you so interested in actor’s sexual orientation?
Good actor.
Ya think?
Is this a joke? Could he have been heterosexual would be shocking!
That is an awful Thumbnail😡😡😡
Who cares, today?
Clifton Webb was all man. 100% How dare you.
Yeeeeesssssss
No gay!! Stop!!
Valentino was Gay
Not a chance. He was as manly as James Arness.
Or Will Geer...oh wait
He Was ? So What.
Ya think?