95 years ago:
The Matinee Idol (US)
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 see...
1928-03-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/75429
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94 years ago:
The Broadway Melody (US)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high soc...
1929-02-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65203
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