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Dreamboat is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Claude Binyon released in USA on 26 july 1952 with Clifton Webb
Dreamboat (1952)
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Add to a movie listDreamboat is a 1952 comedy film starring Clifton Webb as a college professor with a past he would rather remain hidden.
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The respectable lives of Professor of English literature Thornton Sayre (Clifton Webb) and his daughter Carol (Anne Francis) are severely disrupted when it is revealed that he was once a matinee idol known as "Dreamboat". His films are being shown on a television show hosted by his former costar Gloria Marlowe (Ginger Rogers). The college administrators clamor for his resignation, but President Mathilda May Coffey (Elsa Lanchester) requests and is given discretionary power to decide what to do. In private, she admits to Thornton that she had been one of his biggest fans.Actors
Clifton Webb
(Thornton Sayre)
Ginger Rogers
(Gloria Marlowe)
Anne Francis
(Carol Sayre)
Jeffrey Hunter
(Bill Ainslee)
Fred Clark
(Sam Levitt)
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