The Matinee Idol [75429]
Released: 1928-03-14
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Profit: $0
Runtime: 56 mins
Popularity: 0.4374
Vote Average: 6.313
Vote Count: 16
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.

Cast [9]
Bessie Love
Ginger Bolivar
Johnnie Walker
Don Wilson - aka
Ernest Hilliard
Arnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
Jasper Bolivar
David Mir
Eric Barrymaine
Joe Bordeaux
Auditoning Actor
Sidney Bracey
Don's Valet
Sidney D'Albrook
J. Madison Wilbe
Mary Gordon
Woman in Audienc

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