The Matinee Idol
movie
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.
Released March 14, 1928
Overview
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.
Cast
Bessie Love
as
Ginger Bolivar
Johnnie Walker
as
Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Ernest Hilliard
as
Arnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
as
Jasper Bolivar
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David Mir
as
Eric Barrymaine
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Joe Bordeaux
as
Auditoning Actor (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
as
Don's Valet (uncredited)
Sidney D'Albrook
as
J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
as
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Crew
Frank Capra
as
Director
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Robert Lord
as
Story
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Ernest Pagano
as
Story
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Elmer Harris
as
Adaptation
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Peter Milne
as
Adaptation
Harry Cohn
as
Producer
Frank Capra
as
Producer
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Philip Tannura
as
Director of Photography
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Arthur Roberts
as
Editor
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Robert E. Lee
as
Art Direction
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Eugene De Rue
as
Assistant Director