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The Matinee Idol

Name: The Matinee Idol
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 1928-03-14
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore, David Mir

“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.”

★ 6.6 Rating•56 min•1928

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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.