Burton was still juggling theatre with film, playing Hamlet and Coriolanus at the Old Vic theatre in 1953 and alternating the roles of Iago and Othello with the Old Vic's other rising matinee idol John Neville.

With " a classic profile that gained him matinee idol status amongst the film-going public ", he was sought out on the strength of a publicity photograph by the Swiss film director Louis Mercanton.

On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, popular television star John Ritter ( during his days on Three's Company ), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage.

During the group's early years, it recorded under several other names, including Johnny Clifton and His String Band, The Four Aces of Western Swing, and Reno Browne and Her Buckaroos ( although Browne, a female matinee idol of the time, did not actually appear on the record ).

Its first manifestation ( often referred to as matinee idol ) may have been Rudolph Valentino, whose good looks and winning way with women featured heavily in such silent films as The Sheik.

He became a matinee idol by virtue of a play titled Cobra, and soon began to act in films.

Rogers became a matinee idol and American legend.

The comedy proved to be his first big success in America, running from 1933 to 1934, and made him, as he often put it, " a matinee idol for a whole year!

After a few years, she joined the theater company of matinee idol DeWolf Hopper, whom she called " Wolfie.

Ford also recommended Hunter to director Nicholas Ray for the role of Jesus Christ in the biblical film King of Kings ( 1961 ), a difficult part met by critical reaction that ranged from praise to ridicule ( Hunter's youthful matinee idol looks resulted in the film being derided as " I Was a Teenage Jesus " despite his being 34 years old during shooting ).

According to Publishers Weekly, " Lady Redgrave writes with candor, wit, restraint and some sadness about her background, beginnings in the theater in 1932, marriage and motherhood, the trials of moving and the problems of being married to a handsome matinee idol.

To give the picture an air of legitimacy, he cons over-the-hill American matinee idol Tony Powell ( Victor Mature ) to star in the film, which is blatantly titled The Gold of Cairo.

The Love Lottery ( 1954 ) sees a matinee idol Hollywood Star, played by David Niven, agree to take part in a " love lottery ".

Though renowned for his dark, classically handsome looks that made him a matinee idol from his first film appearance, Power played a wide range of roles, from film leading man to light comedy.

Maxwell Reed ( 2 April 1919, Larne, Northern Ireland – 16 August 1974 ) was a British actor who became a matinee idol during the 1950s with the Rank Organisation in Britain.

Anson-Roa, a Bicolana, is the eldest daughter of post-war matinee idol the late Oscar Moreno, then known as the Robert Taylor of the Philippines, and Belen Cristobal, a descendant of Epifanio de los Santos.

He toured Moravia and central Europe, making a name for himself as a matinee idol in theaters in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Germany.

The funeral procession drew tens of thousands who crowded the streets of Quezon City, an event that was reminiscent of the funeral processions of Ninoy Aquino in 1983 and matinee idol Julie Vega in 1985.

He was considered to be the leading matinee idol of his day, but unlike most matinee idols Drew's acting ability was largely undisputed.

The notices were excellent, with The Observer writing: " Mr Coward ’ s production is so inventive, and his own performance so adroit in its mockery of the vain, posturing, and yet self-scrutinising and self-amused matinee idol, that Present Laughter is likely to be future mirth for as long as Mr Coward cares to run it.

His matinee idol looks helped Allende become a superstar and teen idol across Latin America almost immediately.

Although Reid's good looks and powerful physique made him the perfect " matinee idol ," he was equally happy with roles behind the scenes and often worked as a writer, cameraman, and director.

But it wasn't just them who had enough ; headlining Pinkpop on May 23 the band were targeted with apples for selling out to the teen-mags and turning the festival into a children's matinee.

* Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O ' Neill's first full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theater on February 2 – partly as an experiment on the part of the producer, partly to quiet the pleading of actor Richard Bennett who has demanded a chance to play the lead role.

The two decided to cast Marti Webb, who was portraying Eva Perón at the matinee performances of Evita, as their heroine.

He adopted his professional name, Cortez, to capitalize on the fame of his older brother, Jacob Krantz, who had been transformed into the film matinee idol Ricardo Cortez.

They played supporting roles in several films starring their father, who was a popular matinee idol at the time.

She was a film buff who enjoyed Disney movies and, by Sir Les ' own account, they had met at a matinee screening of Fantasia.

It had a " second " cast when it opened in the West End, who were responsible for performing at least one of the matinee shows each week.

Judex was played by French matinee idol René Cresté and Diana was played by Musidora, who had previously played the villainess Irma Vep in Les Vampires.

The story concerns a matinee idol ( played by Uttam Kumar ) on a cross-country train journey, who is placed in the midst of various psychodramas unfolding among a varied cast of mostly wealthy characters.

After the Saturday matinee, Christian Voice protestors appeared.

The character first appeared in 1982 and is a homage to the Saturday matinee heroes of the 1930s and 1940s.

In that month he appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in a charity matinee for the Actors ' Benevolent Fund with Toole's company and such contemporary stars as Rutland Barrington, Lionel Brough, Arthur Cecil, Nellie Farren, George Grossmith, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "... quite an improvement on Cooper's all but unreadable book, and a worthy successor to the Randolph Scott version ," going on to say that " The Last of the Mohicans is not as authentic and uncompromised as it claims to be — more of a matinee fantasy than it wants to admit — but it is probably more entertaining as a result.

The theatre played more musical comedies beginning in 1903, including the Frank Curzon and Isabel Jay hits Miss Hook of Holland ( 1907, its matinee version, Little Miss Hook of Holland was performed by children for children ), King of Cadonia ( 1908 ), and The Balkan Princess ( 1910 ), and later the World War I hits, Broadway Jones ( 1914 ), Carminetta ( 1917 ), and Yes, Uncle!

With more younger stars coming out, he would later take it as a challenge to increase his stock as one of showbiz's top matinee idol.

Ms. Lortel, then a member of the ANTA board, and feeling somewhat frustrated by the success of Threepenny Opera ( because she wanted to bring more plays into her theater ) persuaded ANTA to instead support a matinee series as a " laboratory for innovation " based on the model of the work she was doing at the White Barn Theatre.

The exceptions were as follows: " Wah-Wah ", which starts off with the evening version but cuts to the matinee at 2: 53 ( more noticeable in the film, due to the inclusion of Jim Horn's sax solo, which was cut from the album ); Harrison's band introduction and " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the first show ; and Russell's medley, which is also from the matinee on the album, but in the concert film, the audio cuts to the evening show during " Youngblood ".

: A princess necklace is to long, longer than a choker, but shorter than a matinee.

Reviewed under the English title Big Mama Variety judged, " hough smoothly done, ' Big Mama ' never provides any compelling reason why its formula serio-comedy occupies the big-screen rather than the small -- or better yet, a legit stage matinee.