Clifton Webb with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Easter Parade (1933) video free download

Marcy Fletcher

Well i have a few hundred Easter bonnets. Marcy 

Joan Walker

Hi Does anyone know where I can watch videos pf Clifton Webb dancing in his earlier career. I know he was a great actor and also a great dancer

trantiff tiff

i am learning how to play this song on my piano it sounds greatttt!

MusicProf78

MOMENTS TO REMEMBER for APRIL 15 - Yesterday we featured the 1950 novelty “Peter Cottontail,” so today let’s hear a (seriously vintage) recording of the most popular Easter holiday tune of them all, Irving Berlin’s “EASTER PARADE.” Having met with only mild success in 1917 when he had first tried out the melody using the different lyric and title “Smile And Show Your Dimple,” Berlin recycled the tune for his 1933 musical “As Thousands Cheer,” but this time as “Easter Parade.” And who was it who sang that tune on stage...and also recorded it (below) with the popular Leo Reisman band? None other than future motion picture star Clifton Webb. Clifton Webb with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Easter Parade (1933)

tallpaul521

I've seen posts about Zanuck not caring for his "effiminate" mannerisms, but this is not true. Zanuck was "a man's man" and a great chum of Webb's..Zanuck and his wife were dear friends of Webb..and their Palm Springs home was Webb's second home until he died.

tallpaul521

Thanks for posting this -- the introduction of the song by Webb on B'Way. Would have loved to have seen Webb in "Band Wagon" in 1953 -- he declined and recommended Jack Buchanan (England's Fred Astaire) for the role. I'm reading "Sitting Pretty - The LIfe and Times of Clifton Webb" Mr. Webb will always be best remembered as Waldo Lydecker in the classic film noir "Laura" (his first role in a talking film) and as Lynn Belvedere from the "Mr. Belvedere" comedies. He was one of a kind.

Robert Webster

Webb was a great dancer too. He was to dance with Astaire in "The Band Wagon" but turned part down to take role of John Philip Souza in "Stars and Stripes Forever" 1950. Gay, but no record of it with any of his lovers if he had any. When is mother died in her 90s he followed shortly in 1966.

Edna Wong

Thanks for sharing this!:-)

john oconnor

Enjoyed. Tks

JB1912JB

Thank-you so much. That was a delight.

CatsPjamas1

@Perrofeo25 You're welcome!

Perrofeo

Delightful. I hadn't known that the great Clifton Webb was also a singer. I wish more of his films were available on DVD. Thanks for this. !

Master Blackthorne

@superchartC Yes, you can blame Darryl F. Zanuck for that. Webb had been singing and dancing in Broadway musicals for years, but when Zanuck saw him, he felt he was too "effeminate" for any roles he had in mind. So he cast him as an effete snob in his pictures. Hollywood never recognizes true talent.

CatsPjamas1

@JubalCalif You're welcome, thanks for commenting!

JubalCalif

Yowzers! Thanks so very much for uploading an example of the late great Clifton Webb's fine singing voice. Though today he's known mostly for his many Fox movie roles, he was a huge Broadway star in the 20's & 30's (achieving acclaim as an actor, dancer & singer). You've MADE my day & week! CHEERS, mate! :-)

Barry I. Grauman

Recorded on October 3, 1933.

Abbe B

Did many Irving Berlin songs. Great tenor. Loved him!

Katherine Carlson

He was a dancer in his earlier days as well. Is there any footage of this?

CatsPjamas1

@superchartC Thanks for taking the time to comment!

CatsPjamas1

@misscoconuts2u You're welcome!

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