Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think this is a very wild country. Ever since the '60s there has been a moving off dead-center. I see a lack of inhibition. Look at international travelers. I used to think in terms of Adolphe Menjou in his cloak, arriving on a ship, with 42 pieces of luggage. Now the international traveler comes into Kennedy airport in a summer football sweatshirt and running shorts, and his wife is wearing shorts and a T shirt and high heels. And they are flying first-class...
...films, notably the 1930 Academy Award-winner All Quiet on the Western Front; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
Every time they film Little Miss Marker (the 1934 original, with Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou, a remake in 1949 called Sorrowful Jones, with Bob Hope, and another in 1963 called 40 Pounds of Trouble, with Tony Curtis in the Matthau role), there is a soggy moment when some of the air goes out of the farce. No getting around it; the despairing horseplayer must come to grief, because if he doesn't, Sorrowful won't have $10 worth of the live marker, who seems to have no real name and is always referred...