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Dreamboat

Synopsis
Feature film comedy about a college professor (Webb) who is embarrassed when some silent swashbuckling films he made long ago bring him new prominence on television. He tries to stop the films being shown but the hostess, Gloria (Rogers), of the tv show playing his films is his former co-star and she has other plans. As the film opens one of the professor’s students is reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy from Hamlet; the rest of the class is clearly bored. the camera then rests on the face of the one student (his daughter, Carol) who is not indifferent and singles her out as a misfit intellectual.
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Film
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Year of release
1953
Duration
83 mins
Availability
No archive copy or distributor found (2007).

Credits

Director
Claude Binyon
Producer
Sol C. Siegel
Cinematographer
Milton Krasner
Screenplay
Claude Binyon
Music
Cyril Mockridge
Art Direction
Lyle R. Wheeler; Maurice Ransford
Cast
Anne FrancisCarol Sayre
Clifton WebbThornton Sayre
Ginger RogersGloria

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Plays
Hamlet
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General
From an original story by John D. Weaver,.

Production Company

Name

20th Century Fox

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