Adolphe Menjou
Birthday: 1890-02-18
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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Paths of Glory
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Pollyanna
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My Dream Is Yours
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A Farewell to Arms
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A Star Is Born
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Morning Glory
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The Devil at His Elbow
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The Sniper
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State of the Union
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The Tall Target
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Across the Wide Missouri
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
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The Milky Way
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Morocco
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The Front Page
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Bundle of Joy
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Little Miss Marker
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Step Lively
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Golden Boy
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You Were Never Lovelier
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Broadway Gondolier
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Nearly a King
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Stage Door
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Gold Diggers of 1935
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
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A Night of Mystery
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Broken Barriers
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Forbidden
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The Three Musketeers
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Father Takes a Wife
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Dancing in the Dark
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Hi Diddle Diddle
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Roxie Hart
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The Marriage Circle
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The Ambassador's Daughter
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The Hucksters
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Clarence
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Letter of Introduction
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A Bill of Divorcement
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Rupert of Hentzau
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The Mighty Barnum
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Through The Back Door
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Man on a Tightrope
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
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I Married a Woman
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Are Parents People?
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I'll Be Yours
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The Circus Queen Murder
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Turnabout
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One in a Million
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Manhattan Madness
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The Easiest Way
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Road Show
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Mr. District Attorney
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
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The Habit of Happiness
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The Great Lover
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That's Right – You're Wrong
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Prestige
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The Trumpet Blows
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To Please a Lady
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Easy to Love
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Friends and Lovers
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Journal of a Crime
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The Sorrows of Satan
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
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Sing, Baby, Sing
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The Bachelor's Daughters
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The Night Club Lady
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Convention City
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The Faith Healer
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The Spanish Dancer
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Thanks for Everything
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
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New Moon
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
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Forbidden Paradise
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The World's Applause
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Timberjack
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Bachelor's Affairs
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The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....
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The Goldwyn Follies
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from...
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Head Over Heels
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Sinners in Silk
Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo re...
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Broadway After Dark
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen...
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The Swan
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictu...
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as...
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Bold Love
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a count...
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We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...
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Bella Donna
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. ...
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Shadows of Paris
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris....
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Pink Gods
The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any w...
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A Gentleman of Paris
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he mee...
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Service for Ladies
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foste...
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Open All Night
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabe...
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The Moth
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she fa...
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Diamond Cut Diamond
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party....
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Two White Arms
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other wo...
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A Social Celebrity
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. M...
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The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her of...
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Fascinating Youth
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L...
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King of the Turf
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on...
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The Fast Mail
Cowboy Stanley Carson is visiting Virginia Martin in a southern city when her brother and his gamble...
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Singed Wings
Spanish dancer Bonita della Guerda has a dream in which she is killed by a jester after declaring he...
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His Tiger Lady
A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a raja...
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His Private Life
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American t...
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, ...
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Wives Never Know
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. ...
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Bare...
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The Human Side
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children....
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The Ace of Cads
An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman...
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Evening Clothes
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophistica...
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Marquis Preferred
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support...
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My Kid of a Father
Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthri...
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The Crucial Test
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vanc...
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Let Us Be Gay
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))...
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A Parisian Romance
Rich wastrel Baron Chevrial fritters his days and nights away pursuing a series of young lovelies an...
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The Valentine Girl
Marion, a young girl, is given up by her guardian to be raised by her father who has a criminal past...
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Is Matrimony a Failure?
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the...
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The Marriage Cheat
Helen Canfield leaps from the pleasure yacht of her philandering husband and is picked up by natives...
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The Reward of Patience
When rich civil engineer Robert Penfield goes to a small Quaker town in Pennsylvania to supervise a ...
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Arabian Love
Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. "The Sheik" wins her in a game of dice but...
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Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Paramount Pictures produced this French-language version of Slightly Scarlet (1930) , shot on the sa...
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