Dreamboat
Fresh, wonderful and LOADED with Laughter!
1952 | 83m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Claude Binyon |
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| Writer: | Claude Binyon, John D. Weaver |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 26, 1952 |
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| Director: | Claude Binyon |
| Writer: | Claude Binyon, John D. Weaver |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | court case, college, courtroom, silent film star, college professor, professional reputation |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 | D.W. Harrington |
| Ray Collins | Timothy Stone |
| Richard Garrick | Judge Bowles |
| Jay Adler | Desk Clerk |
| Marietta Canty | Lavinia |
| Helene Stanley | Mimi |
| Victoria Horne | Waitress |
| Emory Parnell | Crazy Sam |
| Mary Treen | Wife in Hotel Bar |
| Bess Flowers | Woman Exiting Hotel |
| Paul Maxey | Member of College Board |
| Helen Brown | Dorothy |
| Richard Easton | Man in Commercial (uncredited) |
| Gwen Verdon | Girl in Commercial (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Holliday |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Milton Krasner | Director of Photography |
| Claude Binyon | Screenplay, Director |
| John D. Weaver | Story |
| James B. Clark | Editor |
| Cyril J. Mockridge | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sol C. Siegel | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 | 30 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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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 Rona ... ld 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 Rogers) is insistent on their continued airing, and so a court case looms with both increasingly vitriolic towards each other. Meantime, his somewhat prim daughter hooks up with "Bill" (Jeffrey Hunter) and, delicately, he begins to open her eyes a bit too! Webb is on good form, and Claude Binyon offers us a rather engaging retrospective of the silent film era, with "Bruce Blair" just about everything from a musketeer to Zorro. It is a bit over-scripted, but towards the end there is a lovely scene in the courtroom with a television demonstrating just how "educational" such a piece of kit was in 1950s America and we watch a good dose of sweet vengeance as we are introduced to another Webb staple - "Lynn Belvedere". Very enjoyable, this.