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7.8/10   494 votes
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Director:
Walter Lang
Writers:
Gwen Davenport (novel)
F. Hugh Herbert (screenplay)
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Release Date:
April 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
NEVER WAS A BABY-SITTER LIKE THIS! (original print media ad - all caps)
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins more
User Comments:
Absolutely delightful; Entertaining. more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Robert Young ... Harry King

Maureen O'Hara ... Tacey King
Clifton Webb ... Lynn Belvedere
Richard Haydn ... Mr. Clarence Appleton
Louise Allbritton ... Edna Philby
Randy Stuart ... Peggy

Ed Begley ... Horatio J. Hammond
Larry Olsen ... Larry King
John Russell ... Bill Philby
Betty Lynn ... Ginger (as Betty Ann Lynn)
Willard Robertson ... Mr. Ashcroft
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dorothy Adams ... Mrs. Goul (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Lynn Belvedere: I am, in my way, a philosopher.
Harry King: Oh, I see, you just sit and think.
Lynn Belvedere: Mr. King, if more people just sat and thought, the world might not be in the stinking mess that it is.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Dreamboat (1952) more
Soundtrack:
Pretty Baby more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Absolutely delightful; Entertaining., 8 February 1999
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Author: thguru from Fort Worth / Dallas, Texas

Absolutely delightful and entertaining film about family life, character and values. The effects are somewhere along the lines of the Andy Hardy films, but with a different plot and characters. Clifton Webb was made for his part. A great actor. One of those types of people that you would want to have dinner with and talk about intellectual things over a good bottle of wine.

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