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Bab's Matinee Idol is a american film of genre Comedy directed by J. Searle Dawley with Marguerite Clark

Bab's Matinee Idol (1917)

Bab's Matinee Idol
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Length 50minutes
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OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance

Bab's Matinee Idol was a 1917 American silent romantic comedy film, based on the Mary Roberts Rinehart novels, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This was the final film in the trilogy of Babs films that starred Marguerite Clark.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, Bab (Clark) is in love with Adrian (Steele), an actor, and cuts his picture out of a newspaper and worships it. An epidemic of measles breaks out and Bab is sent home. A few days later Bab learns that the play with her idol is in town, so she borrows money to see a performance with her hero. She writes him a note, and he invites her into his dressing room. She learns that unless the show gets more publicity, it will close. She arranges with Carter Brooks (Barrie) and her father (Losee) for Adrian to apply for work at her father's ammunition factory, and after he is thrown out the story will be in the newspapers. However, the Honorable Page Beresford (Chadwick), who is after Bab's sister Leila's (Greene) hand and fortune, arrives at the factory to place an order for shells and, mistaken for Adrian, gets thrown out. When the real Adrian applies for work, he is hired and not allowed to leave, and misses the matinee performance. His irate wife, searching for Adrian, soon puts matters right. Bab succumbs to the measles and the revelation that Adrian is married completely shatters her thoughts of romance, at least for the time being.

Actors

Marguerite Clark

(Bab Archibald)Nigel Barrie

(Carter Brooks)Frank Losee

(Mr. Archibald)Cyril Chadwick

(Honorable Page Beresford)Vernon Steele

(Adrian Egleston)
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