“Fresh, wonderful and LOADED with Laughter!”
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.
Claude Binyon
Sol C. Siegel
Claude Binyon
Milton Krasner
Cyril J. Mockridge
Clifton Webb
Thornton Sayre
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Marlowe
Anne Francis
Carol Sayre
Jeffrey Hunter
Bill Ainslee
Elsa Lanchester
Mathilda Coffey
Fred Clark
Sam Levitt
Paul Harvey
D.W. Harrington
Ray Collins
Timothy Stone
Richard Garrick
Judge Bowles
Jay Adler
Desk Clerk
Marietta Canty
Lavinia
Helene Stanley
Mimi
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CinemaSerf
Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Rona...
20th Century Fox