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| Also Known As: | Webb Parmallee Hollenbeck | Died: | October 13, 1966 |
| Born: | November 19, 1891 | Cause of Death: | heart attack |
| Birth Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | Profession: | actor, dancer, singer, artist |
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Multi-talented child performer who graduated to the legitimate stage as a musical comedy star in 1917 and made sporadic appearances in silent films from 1920. By the 1940s Webb was often cast as an effete, waspish snob; he played a mordant columnist in Otto Preminger's "Laura" (1944) and was memorably pompous in "Razor's Edge" (1946), "Dark Corner" (1946) and certified his unexpected, middle-aged stardom by dumping a bowl of oatmeal over the head of a small child in the comedy "Sitting Pretty" (1948). Other notable films include "Cheaper By the Dozen" (1950) and "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954).
Multi-talented child performer who graduated to the legitimate stage as a musical comedy star in 1917 and made sporadic appearances in silent films from 1920. By the 1940s Webb was often cast as an effete, waspish snob; he played a mordant columnist in Otto Preminger's "Laura" (1944) and was memorably pompous in "Razor's Edge" (1946), "Dark Corner" (1946) and certified his unexpected, middle-aged stardom by dumping a bowl of oatmeal over the head of a small child in the comedy "Sitting Pretty" (1948). Other notable films include "Cheaper By the Dozen" (1950) and "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954).
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"Mr. Webb, whose theatrical career spanned more than half a century, was known for his impeccable diction and his elegant taste in clothes. He was credited with having introduced into the American man's wardrobe such items as the white messcoat dinner jacket, the double-breasted vest and the red carnation boutonniere."--"New York Times" obituary, October 15, 1966
"Off-screen, Webb was no less a fascinating character, madly devoted to his mother Maybelle with whom he traveled everywhere, and in the best social circles (later drawing some parallels to the Violet and Sebastian characters drawn by Tennessee Williams in 'Suddenly, Last Summer'.) They were by all odds the closest mother-and-son act in show business, so much so that when Maybelle died in 1960, Webb--then nearly--70--moped so long and frantically, Noel Coward began referring to him as 'the world's oldest living orphan.'"--Robert Osborne ("Hollywood Reporter", November 19, 1991)
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