The Matinee Idol (1928)
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.
66 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 14 de março de 1928
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Bessie Love como Ginger Bolivar
- Johnnie Walker como Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
- Ernest Hilliard como Arnold Wingate
- Lionel Belmore como Jasper Bolivar
- David Mir como Eric Barrymaine
- Joe Bordeaux como Auditoning Actor
- Sidney Bracey como Don's Valet
- Sidney D'Albrook como J. Madison Wilberforce
- Mary Gordon como Mother in Audience
- Dorothy Vernon como Mother in Audience
Equipe
- Frank Capra · Diretor(a)
- Robert Lord · Roteirista
- Ernest Pagano · Roteirista
- Elmer Harris · Roteirista
- Harry Cohn · Produtor(a)
- Philip Tannura · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Arthur Roberts · Editor(a)