Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiger Lady. With Adolphe Menjou in the costume of a Rajah, well-nigh anything is rather more than likely to happen. He is not, however, a real Rajah; but only a "super" in a Parisian revue. He yearns for the haughty leading lady (Evelyn Brent) who keeps counts & dukes, likes to go to the zoo. She puts "Super" Menjou to her favorite test: he must enter a tiger's cage and rescue her silk gloves. Approaching the beast, he notes with pleasure that it had died the night before. He does the proper thing...
Married. Adolphe Menjou, 38, sartorial cinemactor (The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, A Night of Mystery), to Kathryn Carver, 25, blonde cinemactress, onetime wife of Photographer Ira Hill; in Paris. Twenty-five cameramen were present...
...Night of Mystery. Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house were not surprised when the movies "discovered" him. He was the suavest man that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French...
Among those who heard this enticing question was Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, he of the cynically lifted eyebrow and curling, sophisticated lips. Would exquisite Mr. Menjou respond to you-folksy Mr. Ford? Fortunately Cinemasophisticate Menjou has such wholesome tastes as a penchant for garlic. Therefore, when Henry and Mrs. Ford led off in a lancers, Mr. Menjou followed, with his fiancée, Cinemactress Kathryn Carver, whom he will shortly espouse in Europe. Naturally the smart folk of the Majestic followed gaily the lead of Motor Man Ford when he proceeded to waltz, polka, mazurka and Virginia reel. Tales of these...