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The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol

The Matinee Idol

Here's a real comedy of the theater, which takes you behind the scenes of a thrilling melodrama and shows you how they acted in the old ten-twenty-thirties. You'll learn how to make love and say nice things to your sweetheart.

RomanceComedy
March 14, 19280h 56m6.6 / 10
Overview

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.

Director
Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Production
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Bessie Love
Bessie LoveGinger Bolivar
Johnnie Walker
Johnnie WalkerDon Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Ernest Hilliard
Ernest HilliardArnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
Lionel BelmoreJasper Bolivar
D
David MirEric Barrymaine
J
Joe BordeauxAuditoning Actor (uncredited)
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