Dreamboat
Fresh, wonderful and LOADED with Laughter!
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
- 5.7
- 1952
- Released
- 1h 23m
Clifton Webb
Thornton Sayre
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Marlowe
Anne Francis
Carol Sayre
Jeffrey Hunter
Bill Ainslee
Elsa Lanchester
Mathilda Coffey
Fred Clark
Sam Levitt
Paul Harvey
DW Harrington
Ray Collins
Timothy Stone
Helene Stanley
Mimi
Richard Garrick
Judge Bowles
Jay Adler
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Marietta Canty
Lavinia (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
Waitress (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Crazy Sam (uncredited)
Mary Treen
Wife in Hotel Bar (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Woman Exiting Hotel (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Member of College Board (uncredited)
Helen Brown
Dorothy (uncredited)
Richard Easton
Man in Commercial (uncredited)
Gwen Verdon
Girl in Commercial (uncredited)
Marjorie Holliday
(uncredited)Released
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- #court case
- #college
- #courtroom
- #silent film star
- #college professor
- #professional reputation
Reviews
Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Ronald Colman, garner ridicule and upset both his daughter "Carol" (Anne Francis) and his college princi