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Title: Matinee Idol

Date: 1928

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Lionel Belmore, Ernest Hilliard, Sidney D’Albrook, David Mir

Summary: When a New York theater company is stranded in upstate New York, one of the actors, Don Wilson, is accidentally hired to play a part in the local company’s Civil War melodrama. He plays a Confederate soldier who dies in the arms of the production’s star, Ginger Bolivar. Don’s friends find the play so amusing, they arrange for it to play in New York City. There Ginger thinks the audience’s laughter is ridicule and she goes back home. Realizing his true feelings, Don arrives to proclaim his love for Ginger.

Notes: Print exists in the Cinémathèque Française film archive.