matinee idol

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synonyms for matinee idol

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.

How to use matinee idol in a sentence

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

    How to Get Over Cary Grant | Kara Cutruzzula | September 25, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • There is that really august being of matinee-idol figure at—well, let us say at Forty-second Street.

    Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
  • Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself.

    Supreme Personality | Delmer Eugene Croft
  • Even five years before, in the Kootnai country, Jennings had been no matinee idol and Time had not been lenient.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline Lockhart
  • One man, we all decided, could well be a matinee idol and another might have hailed from down Greenwich Village way.

    The Romance of a Great Store | Edward Hungerford
  • And no amount of fasting or praying had ever dimmed that certain something in his eye—the something which makes the matinee idol.

    Fanny Herself | Edna Ferber

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