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Dreamboat

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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.

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Jack S 01/20/2024 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! See more Steve D 06/24/2023 The premise is too thin to last. It shouldn't be a big deal that he was an actor. See more 04/01/2021 Very amusing lines between Ginger Rogers and the Clifton Webb character See more 06/18/2016 Clifton Webb gives a fun performance playing his usual imperious character. See more 04/25/2015 good chemistry between the leads in this. See more Read all reviews
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Claude Binyon

Director

Clifton Webb

Thornton Sayre

Ginger Rogers

Gloria Marlowe

Anne Francis

Carol Sayre

Jeffrey Hunter

Bill Ainslee

Elsa Lanchester

Dr. Mathilda Coffey
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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
Producer
Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriter
Claude Binyon
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 11, 2012
Runtime
1h 23m