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The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol

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The Matinee Idol

NR·1928·56m

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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Director

Frank Capra

Adaptation

Peter Milne

Adaptation

Elmer Harris

Story

Robert Lord

Story

Ernest Pagano

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saber
preserved film
matinee idol