Brando was no matinée idol heady with wine, or movie star who had more chemistry than talent.

But you only have to look at Digby, beautiful as a matinée idol, and completely barking with it, to know that Jack has a point.

He was very close to Rajkumar, the Kannada matinée Idol.

He appeared in more than 150 films, first as a young matinée idol and later as a character actor and star of many B movies.

Mr Christian Slater, the Hollywood matinée idol (see right), has been considering the subject of romance.

He was quite popular in New York City, thanks not only to his talent, but his Brooklyn roots and matinée idol looks.

Sen criticised him for casting a matinée idol such as Uttam Kumar, whom he considered a compromise.

The film is notable as the final attempt of the British matinée idol Novello to break into Hollywood films.

Betty Grable plays young Jane Morrow, who applies for the job of a theater usherette, and encounters her matinée idol.

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The studio also assigned matinée idol Akira Kobayashi and Chieko Matsubara to the lead roles.

She was also the niece of Broadway matinée idol John Drew Jr and early Vitagraph movie star Sidney Drew.

Lawrence was a handsome matinée idol, who had been a juvenile in Henry Irving's Shakespeare company; Braithwaite was a major West End star.

To hear him tell it, he has very little to offer, being neither fun, nor funny, nor pleasing to look upon: "I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinée idol.

Starring Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, in the twenty-four hours of the journey, the film explores the inner conflict of the apparently highly successful matinée idol.

Armando Goyena (December 7, 1922 - March 9, 2011), born Jose Revilla, was a Filipino actor and matinée idol who was popular in the 1950s.

Barrowman recounts Davies as having been searching for an actor with a "matinée idol quality", telling him that "the only one in the whole of Britain who could do it was you".

During the 1920s, three actors Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro and Ivor Novello were considered leading Matinée idols.

Woods plays an explosive but repressed Manhattan cop, with Fox as a Hollywood matinée idol who decides to shadow him by way of research for a tougher kind of cinematic role.

His aunts included Hollywood film stars Constance and Joan Bennett, from whom he was estranged, and his maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.

In 1978 he played the role of Bruce Granit, a matinée idol caricature, in Harold Prince's On the Twentieth Century, for which he won his first Tony Award.

The most striking feature of Bobet the man rather than rider was his ambition to behave like a Hollywood matinée idol, a sort of David Niven character in a dinner suit tuxedo.

Subsequently he was leading man opposite some of the leading female stars of the day, including Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson and became a silent screen matinée idol.

For the boxer nicknamed "Matinee Idol", see Bobby Czyz Matinée idol is a term used mainly to describe film or theatre stars who are adored to the point of adulation by their fans.

He had the looks of a matinee idol gone to seed.

He is trying to balance the life of a matinee idol with a normal one.

And having lost more than 100 pounds this year, he could pass for a matinee idol.

From the start, Secretariat had the look of a matinee idol.

He was a former matinee idol in the late 1980's.

Of course, the matinee idol in you will say it cost $101,000.

Yet he walked and talked like a matinee idol.

He continues to hold a matinee idol status in the popular culture of India.

He was one of the top matinee idols from the 1990s.

With the advent of silent film, Daly became a matinee idol.

I don't worry about growing old or losing my matinee idol good looks.

This is not a trick every 60-ish matinee idol should try.

He was a member of That's Entertainment as a matinee idol.

At heart, he was more everyman than matinee idol.

Not bad, but not a matinee idol or anything.

He didn't look like a matinee idol, but he was one at the school.

And at the town cinema, matinee idols flickered across the big screen.

He's neither just a matinee idol nor a teenybopper icon.

I was a matinee idol in this town, a studmuffin.

And as he says, he's not a matinee idol."

North America's newest matinee idol is not a movie actor but an ice skater.

Chalk up another stolen scene for the one-eyed matinee idol.

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

He got into "matinee idol" status when he joined Click.

The movie was a humorous satire on the matinee idol of motion pictures.