Dreamboat (film)

Dreamboat (film)
Dreamboat
Directed by Claude Binyon
Produced by Sol C. Siegel
Written by John D. Weaver (story)
Claude Binyon
Starring Clifton Webb
Ginger Rogers
Anne Francis
Jeffrey Hunter
Release date(s) July 26, 1952
Running time 83 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $2 million[1]

Dreamboat is a 1952 comedy film starring Clifton Webb as a college professor with a mysterious past.

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Plot

Anne Francis and Clifton Webb in Dreamboat

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 reshown 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.

Thornton hastily leaves for New York to get an injunction against the show, taking Carol along. There they meet Sam Levitt (Fred Clark), the man responsible for airing the movies. While Sam and Gloria try to get Thornton to change his mind, Sam has underling Bill Ainslee (Jeffrey Hunter) show Carol the sights. Undaunted, Thornton eventually gets his injunction, but his life is irreparably changed. He is fired, and Bill and Carol have fallen in love and are planning to get married.

When Gloria gloats over his setbacks, he reveals that a major movie studio is interested in reviving his film career. She then reveals that she bought his contract and is now his boss. Months later, Bill and Carol watch Thornton in Sitting Pretty - a real film starring Clifton Webb.

Music

The film introduced the standard Poinciana (written by Nat Simon and Buddy Bernier) subsequently covered by many artists and which went on to feature in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p224

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