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The Matinee Idol

The Matinee Idol

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? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.

Date: 03/14/1928
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore, David Mir, Joe Bordeaux, Sidney Bracey, Sidney D'Albrook, Mary Gordon

Bessie Love as Ginger Bolivar in The Matinee Idol Bessie Love

Johnnie Walker as Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann in The Matinee Idol Johnnie Walker

Ernest Hilliard as Arnold Wingate in The Matinee Idol Ernest Hilliard

Lionel Belmore as Jasper Bolivar in The Matinee Idol Lionel Belmore

David Mir

Joe Bordeaux

Sidney Bracey as Don's Valet (uncredited) in The Matinee Idol Sidney Bracey

Sidney D'Albrook as J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited) in The Matinee Idol Sidney D'Albrook

Mary Gordon as Woman in Audience (uncredited) in The Matinee Idol Mary Gordon

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