Dreamboat

Dreamboat

83 mins | Comedy | July 26, 1952

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.

Dreamboat

83 mins | Comedy | July 26, 1952

Dreamboat
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Dreamboat
Directors Claude Binyon
Writers John D. Weaver, Claude Binyon

Cast

Clifton Webb

as Thornton Sayre

Ginger Rogers

as Gloria Marlowe

Anne Francis

as Carol Sayre

Jeffrey Hunter

as Bill Ainslee

Elsa Lanchester

as Mathilda Coffey

Fred Clark

as Sam Levitt

Paul Harvey

as D.W. Harrington

Ray Collins

as Timothy Stone

Richard Garrick

as Judge Bowles

Jay Adler

as Desk Clerk

Marietta Canty

as Lavinia

Helene Stanley

as Mimi

Victoria Horne

as Waitress

Emory Parnell

as Crazy Sam

Mary Treen

as Wife in Hotel Bar

Bess Flowers

as Woman Exiting Hotel

Paul Maxey

as Member of College Board

Helen Brown

as Dorothy

Richard Easton

as Man in Commercial (uncredited)

Gwen Verdon

as Girl in Commercial (uncredited)