The Matinee Idol 1928

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.

The Matinee Idol

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6.0 / 10   13 vote(s)
NR
Romance Comedy

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?

Top Billed Cast

Bessie Love

Ginger Bolivar

Johnnie Walker

Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann

Ernest Hilliard

Arnold Wingate

Lionel Belmore

Jasper Bolivar

David Mir

Eric Barrymaine

Joe Bordeaux

Auditoning Actor (uncredited)

Release Date 1928-03-14
Runtime 56m
Directors Frank Capra, Philip Tannura, Eugene De Rue
Producers Harry Cohn, Frank Capra
Writers Robert Lord, Ernest Pagano, Elmer Harris, Peter Milne