Here's a real comedy of the theater, which takes you behind the scenes of a thrilling melodrama and shows you how they acted in the old ten-twenty-thirties. You'll learn how to make love and say nice things to your sweetheart.
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.
Frank Capra
Director
Bessie Love
Ginger Bolivar
Johnnie Walker
Don Wilson - aka Harry Mann
Ernest Hilliard
Arnold Wingate
Lionel Belmore
Jasper Bolivar
David Mir
Eric Barrymaine
Joe Bordeaux
Auditoning Actor (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Don's Valet (uncredited)
Sidney D'Albrook
J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
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Christmas with You58%
Love Is in the Air61%
How to Marry a Millionaire68%
What's Love Got to Do with It?60%
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters60%
Easy Virtue64%
Girl on a Bicycle59%
Watching the Detectives63%
Gidget60%
What a Way to Go!71%
Champagne Problems60%
Bells Are Ringing64%
The Freshman70%
Prom Pact72%
My Favorite Brunette66%
Relative Values61%
Show People72%
Return to Me67%
Desk Set70%
