Editing Clifton Webb (section)

==Personal life==
Throughout his career, Clifton Webb remained a [[He never married|confirmed bachelor]] and had no children. He lived with his mother until her death at age 91 in 1960, leading [[Noël Coward]] to remark, "It must be terrible to be orphaned at 71."<ref>{{cite book|last=Conner|first=Floyd|title=Hollywood's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Lucky Breaks, Prima Donnas, Box Office Bombs, and Other Oddities|publisher=Brassey's|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodsmostwa0000conn/page/107 107]|isbn=1-57488-480-8|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodsmostwa0000conn/page/107}}</ref>

Actor [[Robert Wagner]], who co-starred with Webb in the films ''Stars and Stripes Forever'' and ''Titanic'' and considered the actor one of his mentors, stated in his memoirs, ''Pieces of My Heart: A Life'', that "Clifton Webb was gay, of course, but he never made a pass at me, not that he would have."<ref>Robert Wagner with Scott Eyman, ''Pieces of My Heart: A Life'' (HarperCollins, 2009)</ref><ref>Robert Hofler, ''The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson'' (Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 203</ref><ref>Graham Payn with Barry Day, ''My Life with Noël'', (Hal Leonard Corporation, 1996), page 5</ref> According to a journal article published more than 40 years after Webb's death, his sexual orientation was frequently alluded to through many veiled references in entertainment newspaper columns, though the article does not note which ones.<ref name="leff">{{cite journal |last1=Leff |first1=Leonard |title=Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood |journal=Cinema Journal |date=Spring 2008 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=3–28|doi=10.1353/cj.0.0005 |s2cid=191480093 }}</ref>

On the [[Kraft Music Hall]] network radio broadcast of March 25, 1948, Webb exchanged banter with singer/actor [[Al Jolson]] and pianist/comedian [[Oscar Levant]], with Webb, then near 60 himself, charging Jolson with "having aged". "You're not exactly a boy", responded Jolson, to which Levant added, "He's not exactly a girl, either."<ref name="leff" />