Daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor. Name at birth was "Mabel".
Actor Clifton Webb's mother.∼Mother of actor Clifton Webb, she was known as an ‘intense’ stage mother, encouraging, helping and pushing Clifton onto the stage. She took Clifton and left her husband behind, rarely if ever speaking of him again. Mabelle was quoted as saying, “We never speak of him, he didn’t care for the theatre.”
Actor Clifton Webb's mother.∼Mother of actor Clifton Webb, she was known as an ‘intense’ stage mother, encouraging, helping and pushing Clifton onto the stage. She took Clifton and left her husband behind, rarely if ever speaking of him again. Mabelle was quoted as saying, “We never speak of him, he didn’t care for the theatre.”
Daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor. Name at birth was "Mabel".
Actor Clifton Webb's mother.∼Mother of actor Clifton Webb, she was known as an ‘intense’ stage mother, encouraging, helping and pushing Clifton onto the stage. She took Clifton and left her husband behind, rarely if ever speaking of him again. Mabelle was quoted as saying, “We never speak of him, he didn’t care for the theatre.”
Actor Clifton Webb's mother.∼Mother of actor Clifton Webb, she was known as an ‘intense’ stage mother, encouraging, helping and pushing Clifton onto the stage. She took Clifton and left her husband behind, rarely if ever speaking of him again. Mabelle was quoted as saying, “We never speak of him, he didn’t care for the theatre.”
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