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Belvedere Goes to College and Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell, and on top of that, the character originated in a 1947 novel, Belvedere, written by F. Hugh Herbet, the guy who wrote The Moon Is Blue. TCM has some clips that show some footage of Webb in the role:
As you can see, he’s very much so that type of effete Lord Autumnbottom character that makes you ask, “Is he just very particular about everything, or is he supposed to be gay?” — sort of a forerunner to Niles Crane, and look how that turned out.
Yeah, it’s glared, not cared. Belvedere.
A few weeks ago, I was looking at Shirley Temple’s filmography in hopes of finding that one movie in which she has her hair in ringlets and sing-talks all adorably.
We had to shut down for a week while he healed.'"
Hewett did, indeed, take part in the 1988 AND the 1989 Hollywood Christmas Parade, so that checks out. In it, he told a story about how his cast mate, Adam Sandler, would always like to entertain the cast and crew with stories. Benson had been roommates with Rob Stone before Stone hit it big on Mister Belvedere, and Stone, for some reason, kept his roommates even after being on the series.
In a 2011 Q&A, Benson explained:
the semi-definitive story is that my roommate at the time, rob stone, played kevin on MR BELVEDERE, and he came home early one day and i said "why are you home early?" and he said "Mr Belvedere sat on his own balls." for a longer version, check me out on jay mohr's podcast, MOHR STORIES, plopping soon.
By that point, though, the story had been mostly confirmed by Jeff Stein, Executive Producer of Mister Belvedere, who explained in a 2009 interview with MacLean's:
"There’s also a famous urban legend that production had to be stopped when Christopher Hewett (Mr.
Unlike the novel and the initial film, Belvedere needs the job (while in the original material, he takes the job just to get good material for a book that he is writing). And we even have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal.
It’s a story as old as 1985: Someone dropkicked his jacket as he came through the door… and no one glared.A 1949 film title jumped out at me: Mr. Mr. Belvedere did sit on his own balls. In 1976, Hewett played the generic bureaucrat Federov in the short-lived sitcom Ivan the Terrible. So it seems pretty clearly that Stone came home one day because the show was temporarily shut down because of Hewett's injury, told Benson, Benson told lots of people, including his friend of the time, Sandler, and Sandler then embellished the story over the years.
Still, at the heart of matter, the story is basically legit, so the legend is...
STATUS: True
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One of them involved Christopher Hewett:
"One of my favorite [Adam] Sandler stories was the one he told us about the time that Mr. Belvedere sat on his own balls. His whole story was just lifted from a story his old friend, fellow comedian, Doug Benson, used to tell.
That Infamous Mr.
Belvedere Story Is Actually True
This article contains discussion of physical trauma
TV URBAN LEGEND: The recording of an episode of Mister Belvedere had to be delayed for a week because the actor who played Mister Belvedere accidentally injured his testicles.
There are certain stories that are so outrageous that you automatically assume that they must be true as, well, why would someone ever make up something so ridiculous?
Belvederetheme song incorrectly all these years! Webb would do two more Belvedere movies in the next three years, Mr. As he took a load off, he apparently sat on one of his testicles.