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The Matinee Idol
1928, Mar 14
0h 56m
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.
Directed by
Frank Capra
Bessie Love
Ginger Bolivar
Mary Gordon
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Johnnie Walker
Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Lionel Belmore
Jasper Bolivar
Ernest Hilliard
Arnold Wingate
Sidney Bracey
Don's Valet (uncredited)
Sidney D'Albrook
J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
David Mir
Eric Barrymaine
Joe Bordeaux
Auditoning Actor (uncredited)
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