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Matinee Idol (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 66 mins

  • Director: Frank Capra
  • Writer: Robert Lord; Ernest Pagano
  • Producer: Harry Cohn; Frank Capra

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The(ir) Blurb...

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 & Characters

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