Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cafe Metropole (Twentieth Century-Fox). When the suave proprietor (Adolphe Menjou) of the Paris cafe where she is dining with her father and aunt tells her that a Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned...
...Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...
...until, with three weeks rent due at her boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles...
Sonja is discovered by small-time theatrical producer, Adolf Menjou, who sees a vision of "dancing on ice", one hundred skaters, a symphony, orchestra, Madison Square Garden, spangles, and spotlights and Greta of course. Induced to be featured with his troupe. Greta is nearly disqualified in the games because of this. Don Ameche, a reporter for the Paris Gazzette saves the day, and provides the love interest with old fashioned restraint...
...offer plenty of entertainment in the comedy line in their characteristic manner. Newcomers to the screen, this comedy trio, whose style closely resembles that of the Marx brothers, steal the show from such old timers as Ned Sparks, the dead-pan comedian of a few years back and Adolf Menjou, who is paired with Arline Judge for some clever repartee...