Can’t wait to check out 'The Matinee Idol' right from your couch? Here are streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can start watching sooner. 'The Matinee Idol' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Prime Video, Fawesome, Tubi TV in the US.
Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Columbia Pictures comedy flick. The Matinee Idol starring Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore has a NR rating, a runtime of about 56 min. The release date of the movie is March 14th, 1928. The movie received a user score of 66/100 on TMDb, which is based on reviews from 19 real users.
Ready to dive into the plot? Here's the plot: "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."
