Word: dreamboat
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...Dreamboat (20th Century-Fox) is a tart, tweedy college professor (Clifton Webb), who was once a silent screen ham, rated second in popularity only to "some stupid police dog." When his old movies suddenly become popular on television, embarrassed Professor Webb sues to keep them from being shown. "It's like exhuming a man from his grave," he argues. But the ending is a happy one: Webb winds up in Hollywood with a talking picture contract that bars police dogs from the casts of his movies...
Dream Come True. The superliner is the dreamboat of William Francis Gibbs, 65, crack naval architect and famed designer of World War II's Liberty ships, and every type of naval ship from destroyer to battleship. He sold the dream to the Government and U.S. Lines Co.; the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co. made it come true...
...Dreamboat (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC) is an unsponsored newcomer with songs by Doris Drew, music by Rex Maupin's orchestra, and some insult dialogue imitating the exchanges between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, all pasted together on a storyline about a river showboat...
...ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...
...publicity stills and shoot another set. When she visited the music department and was asked what sort of thing she did, she leaped onto Composer Johnny Mercer's back with a wild yell: "I do something like this. Get it?" She greeted dignified Cecil B. DeMille with "Hiya, dreamboat...