The Matinee Idol

The Matinee Idol

🎞️ Movie 66 min US
โ˜… 6.9 /10 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 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?

Cast

Bessie Love
Bessie Love
Ginger Bolivar
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Johnnie Walker
Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
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Ernest Hilliard
Arnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
Lionel Belmore
Jasper Bolivar
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David Mir
Eric Barrymaine
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Joe Bordeaux
Auditoning Actor
Sidney Bracey
Sidney Bracey
Don's Valet
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Sidney D'Albrook
J. Madison Wilberforce
Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
Mother in Audience
Dorothy Vernon
Dorothy Vernon
Mother in Audience
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Philip Tannura
Cinematographer