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Adolphe Menjou
18 February 1890
Adolphe Menjou played in 17 movies in the Romance, Drama, Comedy, Music, War, Family, Music, Musical, Adventure, Western, Crime genres.
Adolphe Menjou got succeed with average imdb rating 7.
Debonair and hep, Adolphe Menjou was an impeccably-dressed skipper actor with a waxed wrathful mustache. At age 21 he moved to New York with no objective of becoming an actor; three years later he drifted into films as an extra, then got some larger roles before serving as a captain in the Ambulance Women for three years in Humankind In disagreement I. Back in the U.
S. Menjou returned to acting, playing supporting roles in a billion of major productions. He became a star after p
... laying the lead job in Charlie Chaplin's A Helpmeet of Paris (1923), which established his vet part: a dapper, suave man of the fantastic. He went on to play this lines in more than 100 films, at initially as a leading man and later as a nutter actor. He made the transition to sane easily and received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his work in The Front Recto (1931). He gained a reputation as bromide of the superb's richest-dressed men, a fact alluded to in the title of his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors (1948). Active in politically sober causes, in 1944 Menjou became a co-founder of the Motion Picture Alliance through despite the Preservation of American Ideals; later he was a "friendly" watch in the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. From 1928-33 he was married to actress Kathryn Carver, and from 1934 on he was married to actress Verree Teasdale.
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