Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Menjou

Highest Rated: 100% You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Lowest Rated: 70% Morning Glory (1933)

Birthday: Feb 18, 1890

Birthplace: Not Available

Debonair and sophisticated, Adolphe Menjou was an impeccably-dressed lead actor with a waxed black mustache. At age 21 he moved to New York with no intention 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 Corps for three years in World War I. Back in the U.S. Menjou returned to acting, playing supporting roles in a number of major productions. He became a star after playing the lead role in Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923), which established his screen persona: a dapper, suave man of the world. He went on to play this role in more than 100 films, at first as a leading man and later as a character actor. He made the transition to sound easily and received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his work in The Front Page (1931). He gained a reputation as one of the world's best-dressed men, a fact alluded to in the title of his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors (1948). Active in politically conservative causes, in 1944 Menjou became a co-founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals; later he was a "friendly" witness 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.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet American Daylight Actor — 2004
86% Pollyanna Mr. Pendergast — 1960
No Score Yet I Married a Woman Frederick W. Sutton — 1958
No Score Yet I Married a Woman Actor — 1958
95% Paths of Glory Gen. Broulard — 1957
No Score Yet The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown Arthur Martin — 1957
No Score Yet Bundle of Joy J.B. Merlin — 1956
No Score Yet The Ambassador's Daughter Sen. Jonathan Cartwright — 1956
No Score Yet Timberjack 'Sweetwater' Tilton — 1955
No Score Yet Man on a Tightrope Fesker — 1953
86% The Sniper Police Lt. Frank Kafka — 1952
No Score Yet Across the Wide Missouri Pierre — 1951
No Score Yet The Tall Target Colonel Caleb Jeffers — 1951
No Score Yet To Please a Lady Gregg — 1950
No Score Yet Dancing in the Dark Melville Crossman — 1949
No Score Yet My Dream Is Yours Thomas Hutchins — 1949
80% State of the Union Jim Conover — 1948
No Score Yet I'll Be Yours J. Conrad Nelson — 1947
No Score Yet The Hucksters Mr. Kimberly — 1947
No Score Yet Heartbeat Ambassador — 1946
No Score Yet The Bachelor's Daughters Actor — 1946
No Score Yet Man Alive Kismet — 1945
No Score Yet Step Lively Wagner — 1944
No Score Yet Sweet Rosie O'grady Actor — 1943
No Score Yet Hi Diddle Diddle Col. Hector Phyffe — 1943
No Score Yet Syncopation George Latimer — 1942
100% You Were Never Lovelier Eduardo Acuna — 1942
82% Roxie Hart Billy Flynn — 1942
No Score Yet Father Takes a Wife Fredric Osborne, Sr. — 1941
No Score Yet Road Show Col. Carleton Carroway — 1941
No Score Yet Turnabout Phil Manning — 1940
No Score Yet The Housekeeper's Daughter Deakon Maxwell — 1939
No Score Yet Golden Boy Tom Moody — 1939
No Score Yet King of the Turf Jim Mason — 1939
No Score Yet Letter of Introduction John Mannering — 1938
No Score Yet The Goldwyn Follies Oliver Merlin — 1938
95% Stage Door Anthony Powell — 1937
86% 100 Men and a Girl John Cardwell — 1937
No Score Yet Cafe Metropole Monsieur Victor — 1937
100% A Star Is Born Oliver Niles — 1937
No Score Yet The Milky Way Gabby Sloan — 1936
No Score Yet Wives Never Know J. Hugh Ramsay — 1936
No Score Yet Sing, Baby, Sing Bruce Farraday — 1936
No Score Yet One in a Million Tad Spencer — 1936
100% Gold Diggers of 1935 Nicoleff — 1935
No Score Yet Little Miss Marker Sorrowful Jones — 1934
No Score Yet The Mighty Barnum Mr. Bailey Walsh — 1934
No Score Yet The Great Flirtation Stephan Karpath — 1934
70% Morning Glory Louis (Lewis) Easton — 1933
No Score Yet The Worst Woman in Paris? Adolphe Ballou — 1933
No Score Yet Convention City T.R. (Ted) Kent — 1933
93% A Farewell to Arms Rinaldi — 1932
No Score Yet Forbidden Bob — 1932
92% The Front Page Walter Burns — 1931
No Score Yet Men Call It Love Tony Minot — 1931
100% Morocco Mons. Le Bessiere — 1930
No Score Yet Let Us Be Gay Bob Brown — 1930
No Score Yet New Moon Gov. Boris Brusiloff — 1930
No Score Yet A Gentleman of Paris Marquis de Marignan — 1927
No Score Yet The Sorrows of Satan Prince Lucio de Rimanez — 1926
No Score Yet The Grand Duchess and the Waiter Albert Durant — 1926
No Score Yet Swan Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels — 1925
No Score Yet The King of Main Street Serge IV of Molvania — 1925
No Score Yet Are Parents People? Mr. Hazlitt — 1925
No Score Yet Forbidden Paradise Chancellor — 1924
100% The Marriage Circle Prof. Josef Stock — 1924
92% A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate Pierre Revel — 1923
No Score Yet Spanish Dancer Don Salluste — 1923
No Score Yet Clarence Hubert Stein — 1922
No Score Yet Singed Wings Bliss Gordon — 1922
No Score Yet Through the Back Door James Brewster — 1921
No Score Yet Through The Backdoor James Brewster — 1921
100% The Three Musketeers Louis XIII — 1921
89% The Sheik Raoul de Saint Hubert — 1921
No Score Yet What Happened to Rosa? Reporter — 1921
No Score Yet Manhattan Madness Bit Part — 1916

QUOTES FROM Adolphe Menjou CHARACTERS

Miss Marker says: Why don't you lift me?

Sorrowful Jones says: I don't wanna lift you.

Miss Marker says: Lift me!

Sorrowful Jones says: No.

Miss Marker says: Are you Sir Sorry the Sad Knight?

Anthony Powell says: How long have you been coaching this girl?

Catherine Luther says: Iâ??ve only had her a month.

Catherine Luther says: I've only had her a month.

Judy Canfield says: Incredible: No one could possibly get that bad in a monthâ??s time .

Judy Canfield says: Incredible: No one could possibly get that bad in a month's time. .

Anthony Powell says: Incredible: No one could possibly get that bad in a month's time. .

Norman Maine says: Do you think I'm slipping?

Oliver Niles says: Can you take it?

Norman Maine says: Yeah, go ahead.

Oliver Niles says: The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.