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Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted from the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport. [3] The film stars Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Clifton Webb, about a family who hires the mysterious Lynn Belvedere to babysit their rowdy children.
If we swing it, we'll be sitting pretty, ‘in the catbird seat’." 1978: The original television series Dallas featured J.R. Ewing using this phrase quite often. 1987: Raising Arizona included John Goodman saying "you and I'll be sittin' in the fabled catbird seat." 1988: William L. Marbury Jr. called his memoirs In the Catbird Seat [7]
Sittin' Pretty (Bobbie Gentry album), a reissue of the 1968 album Local Gentry, or the title song, 1971; Sittin' Pretty (The Pastels album) or the title song, 1989; Sitting Pretty, an album by the Academic, 2023 "Sitting Pretty", a song from the musical Cabaret, 1966 "Sittin' Pretty", a song by Florida Georgia Line from Can't Say I Ain't ...
The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the first recorded usage of the phrase catbird seat to this story. [1] Mrs. Barrows likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from the baseball broadcaster Red Barber and that to Barber, "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no ...
Sedentary behavior enables less energy expenditure than active behavior. Sedentary behavior is not the same as physical inactivity: sedentary behavior is defined as "any waking behavior characterized by an energy expenditure less than or equal to 1.5 metabolic equivalents (METs), while in a sitting, reclining or lying posture".
Sitting Pretty is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical comedy film that tells the story of two aspiring but untalented songwriters played by Jack Oakie and Jack Haley.They are joined by Ginger Rogers and Thelma Todd on their trip from New York City to Hollywood to find their fortune.
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Sitting Pretty is a 1992 BBC television sitcom written by John Sullivan. The series starred Diane Bull, David Ashford and John Cater and was directed by Susan Belbin and Angela De Chastelai Smith. [1] [better source needed] The series followed the travails of a woman whose millionaire husband dies suddenly.