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Sitting Pretty
UNITED STATES · 1948

Sitting Pretty

Walter Lang
gender nonconformity unconventional caregiving suburban family life social expectations eccentric personalities
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Synopsis

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.

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