The Matinee Idol

⭐ 6.3/10 📅 1928 ⏱️ 56 min 🎭 Comedy, Romance

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.

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Frank Capra

✍️ Writers

Ernest Pagano, Robert Lord

🎥 Producers

Harry Cohn, Frank Capra

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Columbia Pictures

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Comedy Romance

📖 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.