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Dreamboat is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Claude Binyon and starring Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter.
Dreamboat: Directed by Claude Binyon. With Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter. Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it.
- (976)
- Comedy
- Claude Binyon
- 1952-07-26
At Underhill College, English literature professor Thornton Sayre dedicates his life to academia and the rearing of his prim daughter Carol. The Sayres's austere existence is disrupted when a group of jeering college students reveal to Carol that her father was once a silent movie actor known as Bruce Blair, and that his old films, co-starring ...
- Claude Binyon, Lloyd Allen, Ad Schaumer
- Clifton Webb
Dreamboat (1952) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When Thornton Sayre's (Clifton Webb) career as a college professor is threatened by his previous life as a movie star, he and daughter Carol (Anne Francis) go to New York to stop actress Gloria...
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- Claude Binyon
- Comedy
- Clifton Webb
Imagine the surprise when the faculty and students of a small college discover that a prim and proper English professor was in fact a silent screen star. It's discovered when Clifton Webb's old co-star, Ginger Rogers is hosting a program showing some of their old films. The man she calls her Dreamboat.
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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.
