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The Matinee Idol (1928)

ALL 03/14/1928 (en) Romance, Comedy 56 Min
  • Release
    03/14/1928
  • Production
    Columbia Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    61%
  • Original title
    The Matinee Idol
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

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.

  1. Frank Capra

    Director



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  1. Bessie Love

    Ginger Bolivar

  2. Johnnie Walker

    Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann

  3. Ernest Hilliard

    Arnold Wingate

  4. Lionel Belmore

    Jasper Bolivar

  5. David Mir

    Eric Barrymaine

  6. Joe Bordeaux

    Auditoning Actor (uncredited)

  7. Sidney Bracey

    Don's Valet (uncredited)

  8. Sidney D'Albrook

    J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)

  9. Mary Gordon

    Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 11

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The Matinee Idol (1928) 56 Min

ALL 03/14/1928 (en)
Romance, Comedy
  • Release 03/14/1928
  • Production
    Columbia Pictures
  • Original title The Matinee Idol
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

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.

  1. Frank Capra

    Director

  2. Ernest Pagano, Robert Lord

    Story

  3. Arthur Roberts

    Editor

  4. Frank Capra, Harry Cohn

    Producer



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