The Matinee Idol

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The Matinee Idol brings together Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard and Lionel Belmore under the direction of Frank Capra. It runs 56m and holds a 6.6/10 average rating on TMDB from 19 votes. The romance and comedy movie was released on March 14, 1928 by Columbia Pictures (United States of America), originally in No Language. As the poster puts it: "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.".

Plot summary: 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.

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