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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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Released in USA 26 july 1952
Length 1h23
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating65% 3.293073.293073.293073.293073.29307

Dreamboat 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.

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