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Word: menjou (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golden Boy (Adolphe Menjou, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Thanks for Everything (Adolphe Menjou, Jack Haley, Jack Oakie; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Thanks for Everything (Adolphe Menjou, Jack Haley, Jack Oakie; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Thanks for Everything (Adolphe Menjou, Jack Haley, Jack Oakie; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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