69 years ago:
Three Coins in the Fountain (US)
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by ro...
1954-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41503
#ThreeCoinsintheFountain #CliftonWebb #DorothyMcGuire #JeanPeters #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm

66 years ago:
Boy on a Dolphin (US)
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wa...
1957-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37596
#BoyonaDolphin #AlanLadd #SophiaLoren #CliftonWebb #20thCenturyFox #Movies

67 years ago:
The Man Who Never Was (UK)
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will...
1956-04-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43791
#TheManWhoNeverWas #RonaldNeame #CliftonWebb #GloriaGrahame #StephenBoyd #Film

73 years ago:
Cheaper by the Dozen (US)
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
1950-03-31
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33839
#CheaperbytheDozen #CliftonWebb #JeanneCrain #MyrnaLoy #20thCenturyFox #Film

75 years ago:
Sitting Pretty (US)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously f...
1948-03-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76211
#SittingPretty #WalterLang #RobertYoung #MaureenOHara #CliftonWebb #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm

So we're watching 'Laura' tonight after a TiredOldQueenAtTheMovies' Steve Hayes' glowing review -- it is his favorite movie.

#Laura #GeneTierney #DanaAndrews #VincentPrice #CliftonWebb #JudithAnderson #1944 #SteveHayes #TiredOldQueenAtTheMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDl-9q1Ge9E

I love that everyone who's a suspect, is allowed to tag along with McPherson while he investigates the murder.

Dana Andrews as McPherson with Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson in LAURA (1944).
#DanaAndrews #CliftonWebb #VincentPrice #JudithAnderson #OttoPreminger #Laura

Remembering American film, stage and radio actor, #CliftonWebb (1899-1966), born Webb Parmlee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis #onthisday. A ballroom dancer and star of vaudeville and Broadway musicals, on film he excelled as aloof misanthropes and narcissists. Magnificent as dirt-digging, poisonous columnist Waldo Lydecker in Otto Preminger's #Laura (1944), he memorably reteamed with Gene Tierney in #TheRazorsEdge and portrayed the duplicitous gallery owner in #TheDarkCorner (both 1946).

#FilmNoir