Dreamboat poster

Dreamboat( 1952)

TV-MAComedy
59%
User
Score

Fresh, wonderful and LOADED with Laughter!

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Clifton Webb

      Thornton Sayre

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      Ginger Rogers

      Gloria Marlowe

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      Anne Francis

      Carol Sayre

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      Jeffrey Hunter

      Bill Ainslee

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      Elsa Lanchester

      Mathilda Coffey

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      Fred Clark

      Sam Levitt

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      Paul Harvey

      D.W. Harrington

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      Ray Collins

      Timothy Stone

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      Richard Garrick

      Judge Bowles

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      Jay Adler

      Desk Clerk

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      Marietta Canty

      Lavinia

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      Helene Stanley

      Mimi

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      Victoria Horne

      Waitress

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      Emory Parnell

      Crazy Sam

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      Mary Treen

      Wife in Hotel Bar

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      Bess Flowers

      Woman Exiting Hotel

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      Paul Maxey

      Member of College Board

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      Helen Brown

      Dorothy

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      Richard Easton

      Man in Commercial (uncredited)

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      Gwen Verdon

      Girl in Commercial (uncredited)

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      Marjorie Holliday

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Tue Apr 26 2022
    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 principle - "Dr. Coffey" (the enthusiastically smitten Elsa Lanchester) so he sets off to New York to have these things banned. Upon arrival, he discovers that his erstwhile co-star "Gloria Marlowe" (Ginger ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • court case
    • college
    • courtroom
    • silent film star
    • college professor
    • professional reputation