The Matinee Idol (movie)
- User score: 6.1
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Frank Capra
- Production companies: Columbia Pictures
- Genre: Romance, Comedy
- Release date: 3/14/1928
- Run time: 56 min.
Movie description
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.
