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The Matinee Idol (1928) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Matinee Idol
director: Frank Capra actor: Bessie Love / Johnnie Walker
other title: Il teatro di Minnie / Bessie à Broadway
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.
The Purchase Price (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Purchase Price
other title: Il prezzo da pagare / Einsame Herzen
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.