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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Paramount Theatre was Night Mayor, patterned after New York's slick James J. ("Jimmy") Walker who resigned last week. It was suppressed, and The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery in which all the suspects have a motive for killing the victim, substituted. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) is a wrestling devotee who constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives to her apartment, mounts guard. Sitting in a circle of detectives Hostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...husband is Adolphe Menjou, sleek veteran of a thousand mannered comedies. He knows how to express utter satisfaction, when he learns of his wife's defections, by nibbling on an apple core. She, Joan Marsh, has an extraordinary petulance. When asked if there is anything in the world she really likes, she replies: "Yes. The roller-coaster at Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Harold, 20. son of Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, was arrested on a murder charge in Los Angeles after his automobile overturned at 80 m. p. h. and killed his companion, a Miss Marjorie Gauthier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1932 | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Reserved for Ladies was first a story by Hungarian Dramatist Ernest Vajda, then a silent cinema, Service for Ladies with Adolphe Menjou in 1927. Amusing in both versions, its comedy is steadily improving with repetition. Hungarian Director Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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