Adolphe Menjou was an American actor, his screen career spanning both silent films (with credited roles from 1916 onward) and talkies. Among the many well-known films Menjou had prominent roles in are The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, A Farewell to Arms, A Star is Born, Stage Door, Paths of Glory, and Pollyanna. Menjou was nominated for a Best Lead Actor Academy Award for 1931’s The Front Page.
Adolphe Menjou Biography / Wiki
| Name | Adolphe Menjou |
| Also Know | Adolphe Jean Menjou, Adolph Menjou, Ðдольф Менжу |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1890-02-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday | 1963-10-29 |
Adolphe Menjou Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Sniper | Frank Kafka | 1952-05-09 | Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he’s especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by … |
| Little Miss Marker | Sorrowful Jones | 1934-06-01 | Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York’s Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He ar… |
| Father Takes a Wife | Frederic ‘Freddie’ Osborne Senior | 1941-10-03 | A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate…. |
| Hi Diddle Diddle | Hector Phyffe | 1943-08-02 | When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things… |
| A Kiss in the Dark | Walter Grenham | 1925-04-06 | Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play…. |
| Syncopation | George Latimer | 1942-05-22 | A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love…. |
| Letter of Introduction | John Mannering | 1938-08-05 | An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also … |
| The Circus Queen Murder | Thatcher Colt | 1933-04-10 | Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate… |
| Turnabout | Phil Manning | 1940-05-17 | Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life…. |
| Blonde or Brunette | Henri Martel | 1927-01-08 | Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage…. |
| Road Show | Col. Carleton Carroway | 1941-02-18 | Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke’s on him when he wakes up in an … |
| The Great Lover | Paurel | 1931-07-18 | An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy…. |
| Friends and Lovers | Captain Geoffrey Roberts | 1931-10-03 | British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affa… |
| The Sorrows of Satan | Prince Lucio de Rimanez | 1926-10-12 | Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his p… |
| The Night Club Lady | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt | 1932-08-27 | A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection…. |
| Men Call It Love | Tony | 1931-03-14 | Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity…. |
| The Grand Duchess and the Waiter | Albert Durant | 1926-02-21 | Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and c… |
| Bachelor’s Affairs | Andrew Hoyt | 1932-06-26 | A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry bu… |
| The Goldwyn Follies | Oliver Merlin | 1938-02-04 | Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be “Miss Humanity” and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person…. |
| Broadway After Dark | Ralph Norton | 1924-05-31 | Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him… |
| The King On Main Street | The King | 1925-10-24 | A European Ruler falls in love with an American…. |
| Thanks for Everything | J. B. Harcourt | 1938-12-23 | Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with… |
| Fashions in Love | Paul de Remy | 1929-07-01 | … |
| A Gentleman of Paris | Marquis de Marignan | 1927-09-30 | Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn’t en… |
| Service for Ladies | Albert Leroux | 1927-08-06 | Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced tha… |
| Diamond Cut Diamond | Dan McQueen | 1932-08-26 | One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party…. |
| Two White Arms | Maj. Carey Liston | 1932-03-01 | A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women…. |
| A Social Celebrity | Max Haber | 1926-03-29 | Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves… |
| King of the Turf | Jim Mason | 1939-02-17 | Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has … |
| His Tiger Lady | Henri | 1928-05-27 | … |
| His Private Life | Georges St. Germain | 1928-11-17 | Frank Tuttle silent romantic comedy about a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does… |
| The Worst Woman in Paris? | Adolphe Ballou | 1933-12-03 | Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a … |
| The Ace of Cads | 1926-10-11 | An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman…. | |
| The Human Side | Gregory Sheldon | 1934-09-01 | The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children…. |
| Evening Clothes | Lucien d’Artois | 1927-03-19 | Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D’Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D’Artois retaliates by moving to the city… |
| Marquis Preferred | Marquis d’Argenville | 1929-01-27 | Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed…. |
| Mon gosse de père | Jérôme Rocheville | 1930-05-01 | … |
| Soyons gais | Bob Brown | 1930-01-01 | This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))… |
| Sinners in Silk | Arthur Merrill | 1924-09-01 | Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery so that he may enjoy life agai… |
| The Milky Way | Gabby Sloan | 1936-02-07 | Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter’s manager decides to build up the milkman’s reputation in … |
| The Front Page | Walter Burns | 1931-04-04 | Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity … |
| Golden Boy | Tom Moody | 1939-09-05 | Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He’s successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangst… |
| Gold Diggers of 1935 | Nicolai Nicoleff | 1935-03-15 | Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort…. |
| Forbidden | Bob | 1932-01-09 | On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby,… |
| The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII | 1921-08-28 | The young Gascon D’Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respect… |
| Roxie Hart | Billy Flynn | 1942-02-20 | A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was j… |
| The Mighty Barnum | Bailey Walsh | 1934-12-23 | 20th Century Fox’s highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Ja… |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield | 1940-05-31 | Father’s return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family…. |
| One in a Million | Tad Spencer | 1937-01-01 | American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden…. |
| The Easiest Way | William ‘Will’ Brockton | 1931-02-07 | Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton’s invitation … |
| Mr. District Attorney | Craig Warren | 1947-02-20 | An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating…. |
| That’s Right – You’re Wrong | Stacey Delmore | 1939-11-24 | J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program … |
| Prestige | Capt. Remy Bandoin | 1932-01-22 | A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he’s become an alcoholic…. |
| The Trumpet Blows | Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez | 1934-04-14 | In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent … |
| Easy to Love | John | 1934-01-13 | Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. S… |
| The Housekeeper’s Daughter | Deakon Maxwell | 1939-10-26 | A mobster’s moll (Joan Bennett) leads a newsman (Adolphe Menjou), cub reporter (John Hubbard) and photographer to a scoop…. |
| Sing, Baby, Sing | Bruce Farraday | 1936-08-21 | The “Caliban-Ariel” romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolph… |
| Man Alive | Kismet | 1945-11-16 | A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend…. |
| Convention City | T.R. (Ted) Kent | 1933-12-14 | Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City…. |
| Journal of a Crime | Paul Mollet | 1934-03-10 | A woman murders her husband’s mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime…. |
| The Swan | Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels | 1925-02-16 | The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker’s 1923 Br… |
| The Eternal Flame | Duc de Langeais | 1922-09-17 | A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd…. |
| The Great Flirtation | Stephan Karpath | 1934-06-15 | An actor is jealous of his wife’s stardom…. |
| Paths of Glory | Gen. George Broulard | 1957-10-25 | A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916…. |
| A Farewell to Arms | Major Rinaldi | 1932-12-08 | A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Event… |
| A Star Is Born | Oliver Niles | 1937-04-27 | Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido… |
| Morning Glory | Louis Easton | 1933-08-18 | Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a p… |
| The Tall Target | Caleb Jeffers | 1951-08-17 | A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861…. |
| Heartbeat | Ambassador | 1946-05-01 | A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris…. |
| Morocco | Monsieur La Bessiere | 1930-11-14 | The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto’s cabaret. That … |
| Bundle of Joy | J. B. Merlin | 1956-12-12 | Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss’ so… |
| Step Lively | Wagner | 1944-07-26 | Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit…. |
| Broadway Gondolier | Professor Eduardo de Vinci | 1935-07-27 | A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job…. |
| One Hundred Men and a Girl | John Cardwell | 1937-09-05 | The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderst… |
| You Were Never Lovelier | Eduardo Acuña | 1942-11-19 | An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer…. |
| Stage Door | Anthony Powell | 1937-10-07 | The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a the… |
| Are Parents People? | Mr. Hazlitt | 1925-07-14 | The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are plannin… |
| I Married a Woman | Frederick W. Sutton | 1958-03-01 | Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake…. |
| Café Metropole | Monsieur Victor | 1937-04-28 | An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress…. |
| To Please a Lady | Gregg | 1950-10-13 | Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain an… |
| New Moon | Governor Boris Brusiloff | 1930-12-25 | New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriv… |
| Forbidden Paradise | Chancellor | 1924-01-02 | Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch…. |
| Head Over Heels | Sterling | 1922-04-16 | When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency’s talent roster, returns to New York from a trip t… |
| Open All Night | Edmund Durverne | 1924-10-12 | Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to … |
| Sweet Rosie O’Grady | Tom Moran | 1943-10-01 | An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometow… |
| Singed Wings | Bliss Gordon | 1922-11-26 | Singed Wings 1922… |
| Wives Never Know | J. Hugh Ramsey | 1936-09-18 | Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take “marital a… |
| Broken Barriers | Tommy Kemp | 1924-08-18 | A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover t… |
| My Dream Is Yours | Thomas Hutchins | 1949-04-15 | Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New Yo… |
| Across the Wide Missouri | Pierre | 1951-10-12 | In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Bl… |
| Dancing in the Dark | Melville Crossman | 1949-12-02 | Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio … |
| The Ambassador’s Daughter | Senator Jonathan Carwright | 1956-07-26 | While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador’s daughter. Meanwhile she’s out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too…. |
| The Hucksters | Mr. Kimberly | 1947-07-17 | A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity…. |
| I’ll Be Yours | J. Conrad Nelson | 1947-02-02 | A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue…. |
| The Bachelor’s Daughters | Alexander Moody | 1946-08-06 | A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rente… |
| The World’s Applause | Robert Townsend | 1923-01-29 | Corinne d’Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married … |
| Timberjack | ‘Sweetwater’ Tilton | 1955-02-18 | A young man seeks his father’s killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Ba… |
| Bella Donna | Mr. Chepstow | 1923-03-31 | Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involve… |
| Shadows of Paris | Georges de Croy | 1924-02-17 | A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris…. |
| The Spanish Dancer | Don Salluste | 1923-10-06 | The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a gypsy girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people’s fortunes. Despite her gypsy occupation, Mar… |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | Self | 1931-06-09 | A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak … |
| State of the Union | Jim Conover | 1948-04-30 | An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels…. |
| The Marriage Circle | Professor Josef Stock | 1924-02-10 | Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are uhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining … |
| Through The Back Door | James Brewster | 1921-05-05 | A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother…. |
| Man on a Tightrope | Fesker | 1953-05-21 | Elia Kazan’s 1953 film stars Fredric March as the owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia who plots to flee across the borde… |
| The Moth | Teddy Marbridge / The Husband | 1917-10-01 | A 1917 film directed by Edward José…. |
| The Fast Mail | Cal Baldwin | 1922-08-20 | The Fast Mail (1922)… |
| Pollyanna | Mr. Pendergast | 1960-05-19 | A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life…. |
| A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Pierre Revel | 1923-10-01 | When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the c… |
| The Circus: Premiere | Himself | 1928-01-13 | Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film ‘The Circus’…. |
| Fascinating Youth | Adolphe Menjou | 1926-03-17 | Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases … |
| The Crucial Test | Count Nicolai | 1916-07-03 | Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya’s revolutionary brother Bori… |
| The Devil at His Elbow | Wilfred Carleton | 1916-07-31 | … |
| Nearly a King | Baron | 1916-01-20 | A crown prince doesn’t want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place…. |
| Clarence | Hubert Stein | 1922-10-15 | Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler househo… |
| The Sheik | Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert | 1921-11-20 | Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The … |
| Manhattan Madness | Country Club Patron (uncredited) | 1916-10-01 | Steve O’Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales … |
| The Habit of Happiness | Society Man (uncredited) | 1916-03-12 | Douglas Fairbanks stars as “Sunny” Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy fam… |
| The Faith Healer | Dr. Littlefield | 1921-03-13 | A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost…. |
| The Blue Envelope Mystery | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1916-10-23 | Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living…. |
| The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Arthur Martin | 1957-05-09 | When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it’s a publicity stunt. It’s not…. |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | 1942-10-05 | Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, “The White House of Hollywood.”… | |
| The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | ‘A Star Is Born’ (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 | Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t… |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Himself | 1963-07-01 | A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood…. |
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