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.
Directed by Frank Capra
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Cast

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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