The Matinee Idol
October 13, 2011The Matinee Idol
Call Number: DVD 01030
by: Frank Capra; Harry Cohn; Elmer Harris; Johnnie Walker; Bessie Love; Ernest Hilliard; Lionel Belmore; David Mir; Robert Lord; Ernest Pagano; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1999.
Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 56 min.) Special features: Scene selections, silent film with newly reocrded stereo score. From the story “Come back to Aaron” by Robert Lord and Ernest S. Pagano. Originally released as a silent motion picture in 1928. Features exclusive feature-length documentary: Frank Capra’s American Dream.
Summary: When Ginger Bolivar’s amateur stock company is invited to join superstar Don Wilson’s Broadway review, little does she know that recently hired bit-part actor Harry Mann and Don are one and the same. Don believes the Bolivar Players are unintentionally funny, and has brought them to the Big Apple as a comedy act. But when “Harry” falls for Ginger, Don soon learns that humiliating the woman he loves is no laughing matter.
OCLC #: 56698203
Added: October 13, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
