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matinee idol

noun as in film star

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In the old days of fame, matinee-idol actors and pin-up picture actresses may have been dim bulbs.

Pattinson seems to relish the opportunity to shed his image as a matinee idol and portray a predatory capitalist.

In one of his first movies, Robert Redford also makes a striking impression as the gay matinee idol who marries the naive Daisy.

But a dashing, magnetic fifty-eight-year-old matinee idol with three ex-wives notched on his bedpost?

There is that really august being of matinee-idol figure at—well, let us say at Forty-second Street.

Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself.

Even five years before, in the Kootnai country, Jennings had been no matinee idol and Time had not been lenient.

One man, we all decided, could well be a matinee idol and another might have hailed from down Greenwich Village way.

And no amount of fasting or praying had ever dimmed that certain something in his eye—the something which makes the matinee idol.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to matinee idol, such as: leading man, box office gold, favorite, leading lady, star, and star of stage and screen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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