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The Matinee Idol
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?
| Release : | 1928 |
| Rating : | 6.9 |
| Studio : | Columbia Pictures, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Bessie Love Johnnie Walker Ernest Hilliard Lionel Belmore Sidney Bracey |
| Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
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The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
