matinee idol
noun [C] old-fashionedDefinition
› a male actor, especially in films of the 1930s and 1940s, who was very attractive to womenActors and performers
(Definition of matinee idol noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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