He grew in strength with each performance — but it was when a role with a soon-to-be-superstar propelled the career of Adolphe Menjou into screen immortality. Rudolph Valentino had extremely humble cinematic roots — until one role, in The Sheik , set female hearts swooning world wide, and made stars of the trio of Valentino, Menjou, and Agnes Ayres.
Appropriately, all three rest in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. And, be it comedy or drama, he stood out in any scene he graced. Truly, Adolphe Menjou was one of the most sartorially elegant actors that ever graced the arena of motion pictures.
He was honored with an Academy Award nomination in for his role in The Front Page , and enjoyed great popularity during a career that spanned more than five decades. It was this dapper aura that nabbed him, perhaps, his ultimate prize. After two failed marriages, Menjou married actress Verree Teasdale in , and the two remained married for the rest of his life. They adopted a son, Peter, and maintained a home in Beverly Hills, enjoying quiet domesticity when away from the studio.
Menjou amassed quite a collection of art and coins, enjoyed music, and could even look elegant on the golf links. Ted Kent. Adolphe Ballou. Carey Liston. Remy Bandoin. Josef Stock. Dudley King. Raoul de St. Drew uncredited. Hide Show Producer 1 credit. Hide Show Soundtrack 5 credits. Hide Show Self 22 credits. David Mace, Tito Rodriguez Self - Guest. Self - Actor.
Self - Actor as Adolph Menjou. Self - Host. Show all 36 episodes. Self - Guest Panelist. Self - Mystery Guest. Show all 94 episodes. Movies Documentary short Self. A Short Self. A-9 Short Self uncredited. Hide Show Archive footage 21 credits. Griffith: Father of Film Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker Bailey Walsh uncredited. Adolphe attended the Culver Military Academy and eventually graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering.
First-generation American of mixed French-Irish ancestry. Distant cousin of author James Joyce --his mother was Joyce's first cousin. Was a very "friendly witness" for the House Committee on Un-American Activities' hearings into alleged "Communist subversion" in Hollywood.
He willingly "named names" to HUAC during his testimony and was well-known for his ultra-right-wing political stances. He once said that all Communists should be taken out and shot, regardless of whether they were American citizens or not.
Once boasted that his wardrobe included about 2, articles -- over suits and 15 overcoats alone. Possessed enviable art and coin collections during his lifetime. Menjou and fellow actor Edward Arnold shared the same birth date February 18, Menjou was an avid and skilled golfer. Clark Gable was among his favorite partners on the links.
In , Menjou produced a series of two-minute shorts for J. Van Buren entitles "Topics of the Day". Menjou was also well known in the s as a television pitch man for Drewrys Beer, and appeared in several Drewrys television commercials. Hollingshead in Camden, New Jersey and opened on June 6, It had slots and a 40 by 50 foot screen, and he advertised it with the slogan, "The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.
His drive-in was in operation for only three years, but in that time the idea caught on in other states. Spoke French fluently French being his father's tongue and starred in several Hollywood-made French-language films in The last three of these were released in He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Morocco , The Front Page , Little Miss Marker and Paths of Glory The [ Marlon Brando ] school are grabbers, not lovers.
If it wasn't that the script says they get the girl, they wouldn't. It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days, it was the mark of a villain.
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