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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.

14 Mar 1928
  • United States of America
56 mins
6.3
16 votes
  • Romance
  • Comedy
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Bessie Love

    as Ginger Bolivar
  • Johnnie Walker

    as Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
  • Ernest Hilliard

    as Arnold Wingate
  • Lionel Belmore

    as Jasper Bolivar
  • David Mir

    as Eric Barrymaine
  • Joe Bordeaux

    as Auditoning Actor (uncredited)
  • Sidney Bracey

    as Don's Valet (uncredited)
  • Sidney D'Albrook

    as J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
  • Mary Gordon

    as Woman in Audience (uncredited)

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