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The Matinee Idol (1928)
Directed by Frank Capra
“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.”
Romance, Comedy · 56m
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.
Cast
Bessie Love
Ginger Bolivar
Johnnie Walker
Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Ernest Hilliard
Arnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
Jasper Bolivar
Sidney Bracey
Don's Valet (uncredited)
Sidney D'Albrook
J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Director of Photography
- Philip Tannura
- Editor
- Arthur Roberts
- Producer
- Frank Capra, Harry Cohn
Details
- Release date
- 1928-03-14
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures