Showing posts with label Clifton Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clifton Webb. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2009
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Homo History
Once upon a time, there was a little boy from Indiana named Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck, who grew up to be a rather attractive, soulful-eyed, wonderfully graceful ballroom dancer.
In time, he made it to the Great White Way, appearing in such productions as The Little Show with the fabulous, infamous Libby Holman, with whom he was photographed for Vanity Fair.
He became an Important Star on Broadway, with tailor-made parts written by the likes of Noel Coward. It was inevitable that Hollywood would beckon, but in one of the strange twists of fate, despite his acclaim as a singer, dancer, and light romantic lead, Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck would become typecast in films as a supercilious fussbudget. And that, kiddies, is the ballad of...
November 19, 1889 - October 13, 1966
In time, he made it to the Great White Way, appearing in such productions as The Little Show with the fabulous, infamous Libby Holman, with whom he was photographed for Vanity Fair.
He became an Important Star on Broadway, with tailor-made parts written by the likes of Noel Coward. It was inevitable that Hollywood would beckon, but in one of the strange twists of fate, despite his acclaim as a singer, dancer, and light romantic lead, Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck would become typecast in films as a supercilious fussbudget. And that, kiddies, is the ballad of...
November 19, 1889 - October 13, 1966
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