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The Girl and the Matinee Idol
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Gretchen Hartman [the stagestruck girl], Jack Drumier [Horace Morse, the matinee idol], Herbert Barrington [the stage manager], Jack Mulhall [the girl’s suitor], Irma Dawkins [Mrs. Morse]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 16 April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 December 2009.

References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.