Bab's Matinee Idol
Cast & Crew
J. Searle Dawley
Marguerite Clark
Helen Greene
Isabel O'madigan
Frank Losee
Nigel Barrie
Film Details
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Synopsis
Bab Archibald becomes infatuated with leading man Adrian Egleston after she goes with her friends to see a play written by the cousin of her boarding school teacher. After all the girls are sent home because of an epidemic of measles, Bab is forbidden to attend a dance which her sister Leila is giving in honor of her English admirer the Honorable Page Beresford, but she goes anyway and captures the attention of Beresford and most of the other men. When Bab learns that Adrian's play, which deals with labor, is in town and is failing, she schemes with family friend Carter Brooks, an advertising man, to have Adrian go to her father's munitions factory, demand a job, and be thrown out so that the newspapers will write a story about him. Bab's father agrees to the stunt, but mistakes Beresford, there to buy munitions for England, for the actor. Beresford is thrown out, while Adrian is hired and experiences an unpleasant day of hard labor. Later, when Bab sees Adrian's wife embrace him, and thus learns that he is married, she swoons in Carter's arms. She has developed measles and is happy that Carter didn't shrink from her like others did when they thought she might have had smallpox.
Director
J. Searle Dawley
Cast
Marguerite Clark
Helen Greene
Isabel O'madigan
Frank Losee
Nigel Barrie
Cyril Chadwick
Vernon Steel
George Odell
Daisy Belmore
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
This was the third of the adaptations of "Sub-Deb" stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart which ran in The Saturday Evening Post. Some scenes were shot at the Maxine Elliott Theater in New York. No reviews were located for this film.
