Adolphe Menjou
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]
The Front Page
as Walter BurnsHildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused...
Movie pagePaths of Glory
as Gen. George BroulardA commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred...
Movie pageZelig
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a...
Movie pageA Star Is Born
as Oliver NilesEsther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies....
Movie pagePollyanna
as Mr. PendergastA young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to...
Movie pageGold Diggers of 1935
as Nicolai NicoleffRomance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation...
Movie pageState of the Union
as Jim ConoverAn industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on...
Movie pageA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre RevelWhen Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to...
Movie pageA Farewell to Arms
as Major RinaldiA tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt....
Movie pageStage Door
as Anthony PowellThe ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show...
Movie pageThe Tall Target
as Caleb JeffersA detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train...
Movie pageThe Love Goddesses
as (archive footage)This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...
Movie pageGolden Boy
as Tom MoodyDespite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a...
Movie pageMorocco
as Monsieur La BessiereThe Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly...
Movie pageBundle of Joy
as J. B. MerlinKitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a...
Movie pageAcross the Wide Missouri
as PierreIn the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then...
Movie pageYou Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo AcuñaAn Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Movie pageThe Milky Way
as Gabby SloanTimid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's...
Movie pageThe Hucksters
as Mr. KimberlyA World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult...
Movie pageThe Three Musketeers
as Louis XIIIThe young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He...
Movie pageHollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading...
Movie pageLetter of Introduction
as John ManneringAn aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter...
Movie pageMorning Glory
as Louis EastonWildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York...
Movie pageOne in a Million
as Tad SpencerAmerican theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and...
Movie pageHollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....
Movie pageThe Grand Duchess and the Waiter
as Albert DurantAlbert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially...
Movie pageThe Sheik
as Dr. Raoul de St. HubertSheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries...
Movie pageThe Sniper
as Frank KafkaEddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with...
Movie pageRoad Show
as Col. Carleton CarrowayRich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by...
Movie pageSing, Baby, Sing
as Bruce FarradayThe "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...
Movie pageLittle Miss Marker
as Sorrowful JonesBig Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need...
Movie pageHedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as uncreditedNarrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at...
Movie pageRoxie Hart
as Billy FlynnA café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing...
Movie pageHi Diddle Diddle
as Hector PhyffeWhen the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's...
Movie pageKing of the Turf
as Jim MasonMason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death...
Movie pageStep Lively
as WagnerFly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
Movie pageMy Dream Is Yours
as Thomas HutchinsConceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides...
Movie pageJournal of a Crime
as Paul MolletA woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Movie pageTurnabout
as Phil ManningBickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha...
Movie pageTimberjack
as 'Sweetwater' TiltonA young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually...
Movie pageSweet Rosie O'Grady
as Tom MoranAn American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her...
Movie pageTo Please a Lady
as GreggMike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made...
Movie pageMan on a Tightrope
as FeskerThe owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the...
Movie pageConvention City
as T.R. (Ted) KentExtra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Movie pageSyncopation
as George LatimerA young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Movie pageMan Alive
as KismetA reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Movie pageThat's Right - You're Wrong
as Stacey DelmoreJ. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader...
Movie pageHeartbeat
as AmbassadorA female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
Movie pageForbidden Paradise
as ChancellorFilm based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Movie pageFascinating Youth
as Adolphe MenjouPlayboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry...
Movie pageThe Swan
as Albert von Kersten-RodenfelsThe Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount...
Movie pageCafé Metropole
as Monsieur VictorAn American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Movie pageBachelor's Affairs
as Andrew HoytA middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being...
Movie pageBroadway Gondolier
as Professor Eduardo de VinciA taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Movie pageForbidden
as BobOn a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the...
Movie pageThe Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
as Arthur MartinWhen a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
Movie pageMr. District Attorney
as Craig WarrenAn assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he...
Movie pageThe Human Side
as Gregory SheldonThe story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Movie pageFriends and Lovers
as Captain Geoffrey RobertsBritish Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor...
Movie pageI'll Be Yours
as J. Conrad NelsonA small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Movie pageThe World's Applause
as Robert TownsendCorinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is...
Movie pageThe Great Flirtation
as Stephan KarpathAn actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Movie pageThe Mighty Barnum
as Bailey Walsh20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace...
Movie pageThe Great Lover
as PaurelAn aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Movie pageClarence
as Hubert SteinClarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he...
Movie pageThe Easiest Way
as William 'Will' BrocktonGrowing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and...
Movie pageMen Call It Love
as TonyPre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Movie pageThe Housekeeper's Daughter
as Deakon MaxwellA mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Movie pageThe Circus Queen Murder
as Thatcher ColtSuave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and...
Movie pageThe Spanish Dancer
as Don SallusteThe Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even...
Movie pageThe Marriage Circle
as Professor Josef StockProfessor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife,...
Movie pageAre Parents People?
as Mr. HazlittThe teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend...
Movie pageA Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary FairfieldFather's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Movie pageThe Sorrows of Satan
as Prince Lucio de RimanezGeoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing...
Movie pageNew Moon
as Governor Boris BrusiloffNew Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the...
Movie pageOne Hundred Men and a Girl
as John CardwellThe daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed...
Movie pageMarquis Preferred
as Marquis d'ArgenvilleMenjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and...
Movie pageHis Private Life
as Georges St. GermainStory of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper...
Movie pageI Married a Woman
as Frederick W. SuttonAdvertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion...
Movie pageDancing in the Dark
as Melville CrossmanEmery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit...
Movie pagePrestige
as Capt. Remy BandoinA woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Movie pageThe Circus: Premiere
as SelfFootage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Movie pageA Gentleman of Paris
as Marquis de MarignanLe Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he...
Movie pageThe Goldwyn Follies
as Oliver MerlinMovie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies...
Movie pageThe Worst Woman in Paris?
as Adolphe BallouTired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US....
Movie pageThe Ambassador's Daughter
as Senator Jonathan CarwrightWhile on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove...
Movie pageBella Donna
as Mr. ChepstowBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to...
Movie pageEvening Clothes
as Lucien d'ArtoisAttracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more...
Movie pageThanks for Everything
as J. B. HarcourtPromoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel...
Movie pageEasy to Love
as JohnCarol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is...
Movie pageFather Takes a Wife
as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne SeniorA famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
Movie pageOpen All Night
as Edmund DurverneTherese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou)....
Movie pageThe Moth
as Teddy Marbridge / The HusbandSpoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until...
Movie pageShadows of Paris
as Georges de CroyA young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
Movie pageBroken Barriers
as Tommy KempA young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets...
Movie pageBlonde or Brunette
as Henri MartelAdolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Movie pageThrough The Back Door
as James BrewsterA young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I...
Movie pageThe Bachelor's Daughters
as Alexander MoodyA department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their...
Movie pageBroadway After Dark
as Ralph NortonRalph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to...
Movie pageThe King On Main Street
as The KingA European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Movie pageWives Never Know
as J. Hugh RamseyHomer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. ...
Movie pageThe Trumpet Blows
as Pancho Montes / Pancho GomezIn Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife....
Movie pageA Social Celebrity
as Max HaberSmall-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated...
Movie pageDiamond Cut Diamond
as Dan McQueenOne of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
Movie pageNearly a King
as BaronA crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
Movie pageTwo White Arms
as Maj. Carey ListonA man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue...
Movie pageHead Over Heels
as SterlingWhen theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his...
Movie pageThe Blue Envelope Mystery
as Bit Part (uncredited)Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the...
Movie pageThe Habit of Happiness
as Society Man (uncredited)Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits....
Movie pageThe Eternal Flame
as Duc de LangeaisA 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Movie pageThe Night Club Lady
as Police Commissioner Thatcher ColtA police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Movie pageManhattan Madness
as Country Club Patron (uncredited)Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York...
Movie pageThe Ace of Cads
as uncreditedAn officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the...
Movie pageSinners in Silk
as Arthur MerrillAging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to...
Movie pageA Kiss in the Dark
as Walter GrenhamBased on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
Movie pageThe Crucial Test
as Count NicolaiWicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist...
Movie pageThe Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
TV Show pageWhat's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
TV Show pageWhat's My Line?
as Self - PanelistFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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