Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress well the men had only to listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...
...husbands. They hit on the scheme of pooling their room rents and leasing a $300-a-month Long Island house. A nice retired saleslady (Billie Burke) agrees to act as their mother. After a bit of high-pressure persuasion, the store's pinchpenny fop of a floorwalker (Adolphe Menjou) is dragged along as a window-dressing husband & father...
...This moth-eaten plot, nimbly performed, takes on a restful, unpretentious air. Most rewarding performance is Menjou's as the crusty, fussy bachelor, who finally works as hard bailing his "daughters" out of jams as any real, doting father would. Most unusual performance: the boy friend of one of the salesladies, played-mostly at the piano, fortunately-by Eugene List, the G.I. pianist who entertained Truman, Churchill, Stalin and other notables at the Potsdam Conference...
Slip of the Razor. Eventually, the Westmores landed in Hollywood. There, in 1920, Perc broke into the movies by rescuing Film Star Adolph Menjou from the effects of a hasty razor stroke. Menjou had inadvertently shaved off half his mustache just before he was to appear in The Three Musketeers. Young Perc, a beauty-shop apprentice, fixed up the mishap so expertly that he and his father were hired on the spot...
...fact, that a list of them since 1924 reads almost like a roll-call of the great and near-great of our times : Admiral (then Captain) Ernest J. King and William Ran dolph Hearst ("I think the less said about my college career the better"), Irene Castle and Adolphe Menjou ("I have never up to the present been a waiter in real life"), H. G. Wells and Billy Rose ("I would rather be labeled 'dwarfish' than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all") - Bernard Baruch and Franklin Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, Rudy Vallee, Robert L. Ripley, Harold...