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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]
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.
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 ...
James Thurber wrote in his short story of the same title: "[S]itting in the catbird seat" means sitting pretty, like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him. The catbird is said to seek out the highest point in a tree to sing his song, so someone in the catbird seat is high up.
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 ...
Explaining TJ Mack, the character created by actor and comedian Brian Jordan Alvarez, and the viral song Sitting, TJ Mack's wife, and more parts of the universe. 'Sitting' was his 1st hit.
It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Richard Gere starring opposite Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.But the actor says it took some convincing to get him to agree to appear in the beloved 1990 ...
The screenplay written by Mary Loos, Mary C. McCall, Jr., and Richard Sale was based on characters created by Gwen Davenport. It follows on from Sitting Pretty (1948), and had a sequel, Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951).