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.
- Comedy
- Romance
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 14, 1928
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Cast
- Johnnie Walker,Joe Bordeaux,Sidney Bracey,Ernest Hilliard,Mary Gordon,Sidney D'Albrook,Bessie Love,Lionel Belmore,David Mir
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Producer
- Harry Cohn,Frank Capra
- Cinematography
- Philip Tannura
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0019151