Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer and singer.
Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in a rural part of Marion County, Indiana, which would, in 1906, become Beech Grove, a self-governing city entirely surrounded by Indianapolis. As a result, virtually all printed sources give the larger city as his place of birth. Webb's parents were Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867–May 2, 1939), the son of a grocer fro...
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Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer and singer.
Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in a rural part of Marion County, Indiana, which would, in 1906, become Beech Grove, a self-governing city entirely surrounded by Indianapolis. As a result, virtually all printed sources give the larger city as his place of birth. Webb's parents were Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867–May 2, 1939), the son of a grocer from a multi-generational Indiana farming family, and Mabelle A. Parmelee (most sources give "Parmalee" or "Parmallee") (March 24, 1869–October 17, 1960), the daughter of a railroad conductor.
In 1892, Webb's formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York City with her beloved "little Webb", as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about her husband Jacob, a ticket clerk who, like her father, worked for the Indianapolis-St. Louis Railroad, by saying, "We never speak of him. He didn't care for the theatre."
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