The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol
Watch The Matinee Idol Online Free HD Solarmovies. 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.
- Genre: Romance, Comedy
- Country: United States
- Director: Frank Capra
- Cast: Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore, David Mir, Joe Bordeaux, Sidney Bracey, Sidney D'Albrook, Mary Gordon,
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