The Matinee Idol
- 1928 (US)
- Comedy
- Romance
- 0h 56m
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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.
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Mary GordonWoman in Audience (uncredited)
Johnnie WalkerDon Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Ernest HilliardArnold Wingate
Joe BordeauxAuditoning Actor (uncredited)
Bessie LoveGinger Bolivar
Lionel BelmoreJasper Bolivar- David MirEric Barrymaine
Sidney D'AlbrookJ. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
Sidney BraceyDon's Valet (uncredited)
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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.
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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.Genres
- Comedy
- Romance
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1928-03-14 (United States)Country of origin
- United States of America
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- No Language
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The Matinee IdolFilming location
- United States of America
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- Columbia Pictures
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