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  Adolphe Menjou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor of French and Irish descent.
In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood.
Menjou was an leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideas, a right-wing group formed to oppose Communist influence in Hollywood.
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 © Adolphe Menjou, Silent and Sound Movie Actor
Adolphe Menjou was born to a French-American family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 18th, 1890, and he graduated from a high school military academy and then Cornell University with an engineering degree.
Adolphe was a convincing hurt and betrayed husband in Ernst Lubitsch's first Paramount picture "The Marriage Circle" (1924).
Adolphe was married three times, divorced twice, and had an adopted son with his last wife, actress Verree Teasdale.
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He was thereafter typecast as a dapper, debonair man-of-the-world in countless other films, mostly sophisticated drawing room comedies, at first as a leading man and later as a character actor.
Menjou's trademarks were a waxed fl mustache and an impeccable wardrobe.
In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigative hearings in Hollywood, where he took a smug, hard-line, anticommunist stance and pointed an accusing finger at a number of his Hollywood colleagues.
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 Biography for Adolphe Menjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Adolphe attended the Culver Military Academy and eventually graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering.
Menjou's starring career faltered with the arrival of sound, but he scored big as a world-weary army officer supporting Gary Cooper in Morocco (1930), and even received an Oscar nomination as roughand-tumble newspaper editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (1931).
Menjou made his final big-screen appearance as a curmudgeon in Walt Disney's Pollyanna (1960).
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Today's Adventure: Adolphe Menjou outlines the International Communist Conspiracy to Stanley Kubrick on the set of Paths of Glory The Quote: "And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one...
The editorial boss is an elderly (60-ish!) gent in a rumpled sports coat, tie loosened in the style of Adolphe Menjou in filmdom's The Front Page.
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Although this fosters a quick turnover in “immortals” and a short memory for their deeds, I’m sure that my friend Adolphe Menjou, in hos own unique way will always be headliner in the saga of Movieland.
Adolphe’s nonstop career as an actor speaks for itself.
Adolphe will not only make you like it, he will also teach you how to say “hello” in Serbian, Rumanian, and Greek.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering.
Menjou was an leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideas, an right-wing group formed to oppose what its members saw as excessive Communist influence in Hollywood.
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 Amazon.com: Roxie Hart (1942) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Adolphe Menjou costars as the blustery defense lawyer who sees no possibility of losing, and George Chandler plays the meek husband left in Roxie's dust.
Menjou is sometimes today remembered more for his nonscreen activities than his acting.
Adolphe Menjou is excellent as her attorney, the "best in town", guiding her through all kind of schemes to gain both the acquittal and the press-coverage she so desperately needs to show "her talents" and become a "public name"...BTW, you have to watch Rogers dance the flbottom!
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Adolphe Menjou Pics - Adolphe Menjou News - Adolphe Menjou Information
Adolphe Menjou is a Cornell graduate with a degree in engineering.
He started out in film in the 1910s, but when WWI started, he joined up in the war effort.
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 The Ace of Cads (1926)
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Alice Joyce, Norman Trevor, Philip Strange, Suzanne Fleming.
The suave and polished Adolphe Menjou in a romantic role made to order for his style of acting, a part with all kinds of romantic appeal and the attractive air of British society.
GETTING AWAY from comedy roles, Adolphe Menjou demonstrates his right to consideration as a serious actor in Paramount's version of Michael Arlen's "The Ace of Cads." To those who have regarded him purely as a light comedian, his touches of pathos come as a surprise.
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 Adolph - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this remake of the 1932 film, a mentally ill man (Adolphe Menjou) regains sanity and returns home after a long absence.
Her ex-boss (Adolphe Menjou) becomes involved and tries to make Polly an "honorable woman" through marriage to his son, Dan (Eddie Fisher).
The honeymoon of newlyweds Janie (Martha Scott) and Sonny (Dennis O'Keefe) is interupted when the bride's mother (Billie Burke) learns that she has been swindled by a suitor (Barton Hepburn) she has turned down.
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 Evening Clothes (1927) - Bibliography of Film Reviews and Reviews
--- notes that Adolphe Menjou was in attendance at the previous night's screening, as was the poet, dramatist and then current French ambassador to the United States, Paul Claudel; each were introduced from the stage - article in Los Angeles, California newspaper
Menjou, and because he controls it with such effortless monopoly it is one of his best." - New York City newspaper
Menjou in Evening Clothes - He Usually Is!" Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1927.
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'Adolphe Le cahier rouge Cecile' - Benjamin Constant
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PATHS OF GLORY - Adolphe Menjou, Kirk Douglas - New
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 A Social Celebrity (1926) - Bibliography of Film Reviews and Articles
"Adolphe Menjou At Liberty in A Social Celebrity." San Jose Mercury Herald, April 2, 1926.
"Adolphe Menjou At the Strand in Social Celebrity." Canton Repository, April 4, 1926.
--- "Adolphe Menjou is, of course, excellent, and his leading lady, Louise Brooks, indulges in some eye-and eyebrow-play which is not at all difficult to watch.
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 Adolphe Menjou
No one can fathom his motives for this apparently selfless act, but there are a few tricks in the old fox yet...and he'll need them all.
Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job.
In this musical comedy, the first in a series to feature Kay Kyser and his popular band, the fellas are seen heading for Hollywood to make their movie debut.
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 Letter Of Introduction - DVD (1938) Starring Adolphe Menjou & Edgar Bergen; Directed by John M. Stahl; - Alpha Video : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A woman keeps her past a secret in her efforts to succeed as an actress without the help of her estranged, but famous, father.
Adolphe Menjou is John Mannering, the high profile fl sheep of a Barrymore-like family of theatrical legends.
The aging, alcoholic womanizer is amused by the arrival of long lost daughter Kay (Andrea Leeds).
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 Are Parents People review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Betty Bronson of "Peter Pan" fame plays the daughter with charm and authority, while Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor score as the parents.
Florence Vidor gives a sincere portrayal of the wife, while Adolphe Menjou's characterization of the husband is finely shaded.
Everybody has been anxiously awaiting the release of this picture for two reasons: first, to see if Betty Bronson would measure up to her performance in "Peter Pan"; second, because this is the first production that the youthful director Mal St. Clair has done for Paramount.
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 Adolphe Menjou Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Wini Shaw, Grant Mitchell, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn.
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Samuel S Hinds.
Starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Andy Devine, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Lionel Stander, Owen Moore, J C Nugent, Clara Blandick, Franklin Pangborn.
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 GOLDEN BOY - Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou Average Rouben Mamoulian Drama Sports 1939 -
GOLDEN BOY - Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou Average Rouben Mamoulian Drama Sports 1939 -
Young Joe Napoleon's (William Holden) dream is to become a virtuoso violinist, but when a manager, Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), sees the boy (an amateur boxer) fight in the ring, he manages to talk Joe into signing a boxing contract.
Moody tells his own mistress, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to play on the boy's innocence and convince him to give up his dream of playing the violin for a career as a prizefighter.
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 Three Movie Buffs Review Morocco (1930) Starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
Everything she does in Morocco is iconic, including the scene where she comes out dressed in male-drag and kisses a woman on the lips.
Enter the impeccably tailored and charmingly mannered Adolphe Menjou.
But life is ever complicated and when he overhears a proposal to Amy from the very wealthy and honorable Monsieur La Bessiere (Menjou) he knows in his heart that he can never offer her as much and so he nobly leaves town.
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 Stock Maven® Classic Films Movies Actor: Adolphe Menjou - 1
Starring: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Frederici, Mary Forbes, Gilbert Emery
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Basil Rathbone
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joe Turkel, Christiane Kubrick, Jerry Hausner, Peter Capell, Emile Meyer, Bert Freed, Kem Dibbs, Timothy Carey, Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict
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 Amazon.ca: Goldwyn Follies: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Goldwyn's dream began and ended with 1938's Goldwyn Follies, a film centering on Goldwyn-like movie producer Oliver Martin (Adolphe Menjou).
The film's plot involves film producer Oliver Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) whose movies fail consistently at the box office.
While shooting a film on location with his temperamental star Olga Samara (Zorina), Merlin overhears Hazel Dawes (Andrea Leeds in her first film following her triumph in "Stage Door"), a young woman who watches the film shoot with a friend & comments about how less than human the characters seem to be.
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 Paths of Glory (1957) - FilmAffinity
Kirk Douglas, in one of his finest portrayals, is Colonel Dax, the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI.
The generals General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), corps commander and suave representative of the high command, arrives at the placid, beautiful chateau that serves as headquarters for General Mireau (George Macready), the divisional general in charge.
Broulard tells Mireau that his division has been dormant and must now make an all-out attack against an impregnable German position nicknamed the Ant Hill and that this position must be captured within 48 hours...
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 Heartbeat - DVD (1946) Starring Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone & Adolphe Menjou; Directed by Sam Wood; - Alpha Video : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A bad-girl is recruited by a gang of pick-pockets but falls in love with an intended victim in this classic comedy.
Always faced with a return to the reformatory, Arlette realizes that the best way out of Aristide's clutches and reform school's net is to marry and find protection in the arms of a husband.
When asked to steal the watch of diplomat Pierre La Roche (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette falls for her victim and a strange courtship ensues as Professor Aristide and a suave ambassador (Adolphe Menjou) manipulate young Arlette for their own wicked purposes.
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 The Sniper - Movie Posters mp02356 - Movie Posters
Description: (1952) Psychopath, let out of a mental hospital, has a strange compultion to kill brunettes under 30.
Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor.
The Sniper Movie Posters Drama (1952) Psychopath, let out of a mental hospital, has a strange compultion to kill brunettes under 30.
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 Adolphe Menjou - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
Adolphe Menjou - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
Adolphe Menjou : From TV to the Movie Screen.
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 Adolphe Menjou Movies & News
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In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans.
Do you know something that Adolphe Menjou is working on?
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 Amazon.co.uk: Stage Door [1937]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The two trade barbs over everything from Terry's extensive wardrobe to Jean's affair with Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou), a Broadway producer who is working his way through an endless procession of young women.
His next big production is "Enchanted April," and in order to get funding he is cornered into giving the inexperienced and patently inept Terry the starring role.
Then you have Kate Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou (Who appeared with Ginger again in 1942's "Roxie Hart"), and Lucille Ball in an early supporting role.
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