The Matinee Idol (1928)
- Directed by
- Frank Capra
- Genre
- silent film, romantic comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 55 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A traveling actor gets mistaken for someone else and falls in love with a small-town girl. It is a silent romantic comedy about mistaken identity and putting on a show.
lightheartedplayfulromanticenergeticold-fashionedwhimsicalamusingoptimistic
What happens
The Matinee Idol is a 1928 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Prints are in the archives of the Cinémathèque Française and Cineteca di Bologna. The film has been restored. The Academy Film Archive preserved The Matinee Idol in 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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