Someone who is adored blindly and excessively.
1He wore spectacles and had the jaw of a matinee idol.
2Of her marriages, her first, to matinee idol Maxwell Reed, was brief and disastrous.
3He's no matinee idol for looks; maybe you wouldn't even call him good looking.
4With a wilful desire to destroy his matinee idol status.
5It's not that I think I'm some matinee idol.
6Dueling, wooing and ranting with abandon, he is every inch the self-indulgent, charismatic matinee idol.
7With his physical bulk and craggy features, he was never going to be a matinee idol.
8No one would ever describe actor John Kavanagh as having the face of a matinee idol.
9Tall and thin, he had the smooth face of a matinee idol and short blond hair.
10With his solemn gaze and luxuriant black moustache, he has the air of a matinee idol.
11Rodríguez, the matinee idol of this World Cup and still only 22, is a case in point.
12He was the first royal matinee idol.
13GARRICK, an old English matinee idol.
14A youthful man with wavy brown hair and matinee idol looks, Scaramucci does have a salesman's smooth touch.
15We've been brought here by Arturo, a middle-aged Mexican; stocky, bearded, with the looks of an overweight matinee idol.
16Even five years before, in the Kootnai country, Jennings had been no matinee idol and Time had not been lenient.