The Matinee Idol (1928)
1928 · Feature film · 56 min · dir. Frank Capra
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.
- Romance
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writer
- Ernest Pagano
- Cinematography
- Philip Tannura
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1928-03-14
- Running time
- 56 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Comedy Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
Frank Capra Director
Bessie Love
Johnnie Walker
Ernest Hilliard
Lionel Belmore
David Mir- Joe Bordeaux
Sidney Bracey
Sidney D'Albrook
