In addition to hordes of adoring teen-agers to whom he is a romantic idol, he has attracted a sophisticated black audience.
The film's popularity and critical acclaimed led to Colman becoming a major star and also a romantic idol of the silent cinema.
The Cheat co-starring Fannie Ward, was a huge success, making Hayakawa a romantic idol to the female movie-going public.
She was living openly with Rudolph Valentino, the romantic idol of millions of women the world over, at the time of his death in 1926.
Nonetheless, Hitchcock gave him one of the most exquisite close-ups ever filmed and made him a romantic idol.
She and her husband became known as the romantic idols of Yiddish musicals.
George Sterling, fantasy poet and romantic idol, favorite of the wealthy Bohemian Club set.
Pioneering aviator, best-selling writer and romantic idol, Antoine de Saint-Exupery enjoyed a celebrity in his lifetime that was surpassed only by his fame after death.
But fate has been cruel to the men who became soul's romantic idols.
Entering British films in 1947, he quickly established himself as a romantic idol with a large female fan club.