00:10 Keep your seats please, and kindly refrain from rustling your popcorn bags, while I say a few words about a comedy which has recently been produced by the 20th Century Fox Studios.
00:20 It is titled Sitting Pretty. My submerged vanity will not allow me to say that Sitting Pretty is a good picture. It is not a good picture, it is a great picture.
00:28 The critics insist that my presence in the cast as a baby-hating babysitter elevates this cinema epic from mediocrity to sublimity.
00:36 Here you see Robert Young, who plays the role of a harassed father. And this is a close-up of Maureen O'Hara, whose beauty enhances every picture in which she appears.
00:45 I regret to inform you that in Sitting Pretty, I do not get Miss O'Hara. And now the screen is graced with a close-up of me.
00:52 No amount of genius will make me a Casanova or a Tyrone Power. But as Belvedere, the babysitter, I do have my triumphs, especially over these three potential assassins and their parents.
01:05 Mr. King, I've been trying to teach Roddy that bathing is not a social function. Kindly do not talk to him.
01:12 Mr. Belvedere, you dance divinely.
01:15 Yes, I do.
01:17 What's the matter? You forget something?
01:22 I can't go.
01:23 Why?
01:24 Well, I can't leave you here alone with Belvedere.
01:27 Why not? Belvedere!
01:31 Now eat your breakfast. And chew each mouthful 28 times. Not 20, mind you, or 26, but 28 times.
01:43 (Crying)
01:46 (Screaming)
01:51 What's the matter? What happened?
01:53 Why, Roddy!
01:54 I guarantee that he will never throw cereal at me or anyone else again, ever.
01:58 Take my word for it. Sitting Pretty is solid entertainment beamed right at your risibilities.
02:03 It was made strictly for laughs, with laughs. It was my good fortune to be cast in it. It will be your good fortune to see and enjoy it. Yours very truly, Clifton Webb.