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