Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty

Never was a baby-sitter like this!

1948 · 83 min · ★ 7.1 · Comedy

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 forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Directed by Walter Lang · Written by F. Hugh Herbert

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