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      Dreamboat

      1952 1h 23m Comedy List
      Reviews 46% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score 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 Marlowe (Ginger Rogers), a former co-star, from airing his old films. Webb's sudden reappearance causes a public stir, and after Gloria and her agent fail to manipulate him, he takes his grievances to court. Meanwhile, Carol begins rethinking both her father's and her own low opinion of show business. Read More Read Less

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      Jack S A good cast and a smart script make Dreamboat an unexpected delight. It's an ideal role for Webb here as a typically staid professor embarrassed by the exposure of his former silent movie career—exploited on TV by ex romantic co-star (Rodgers). Both Webb and Rogers have a good deal of fun in vintage clips of the old films in question, including a few cleverly deft slapstick sequences—my favorite which has Webb subduing a boorish bar patron by imitating the fight scene moves of his hero character from one of his old silent action films! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/24 Full Review Steve D The premise is too thin to last. It shouldn't be a big deal that he was an actor. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Very amusing lines between Ginger Rogers and the Clifton Webb character Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Clifton Webb gives a fun performance playing his usual imperious character. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member good chemistry between the leads in this. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis 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 Marlowe (Ginger Rogers), a former co-star, from airing his old films. Webb's sudden reappearance causes a public stir, and after Gloria and her agent fail to manipulate him, he takes his grievances to court. Meanwhile, Carol begins rethinking both her father's and her own low opinion of show business.
      Director
      Claude Binyon
      Screenwriter
      Claude Binyon
      Production Co
      Twentieth Century Fox
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Dec 11, 2012
      Runtime
      1h 23m