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...third movie version of The Front Page is out. The first film was produced in 1930, almost as soon as Hollywood found its tongue. It starred Pat O'Brien as Hildy Johnson, dervish of the deadline and past master of the fictitious fact, and Adolphe Menjou as his congenially mean-spirited editor, Walter Burns. Ten years later Howard Hawks changed the title to His Girl Friday, casting Gary Grant as Burns and Rosalind Russell as a female Johnson. Hawks made the pair not only friendly antagonists but former mates. When Burns tries to break up Johnson's romance...
...film's every turn and nuance is heightened, given immediate meaning for the character involved, as much by its understated acting as by its simple shooting style. Carol Dempster has come far from the frolics she and Lillian Gish gave Griffith's films of the earlier twenties. And Adolphe Menjou, as Satan, is the model of restraint. For him a grimace or devilish leer would be an unspeakable faux pas. But Griffith, far from leaving him a polished gentleman without depth of character, makes his slightest gestures personally significant. Menjou is eating dinner with Ricardo Cortez in the grandest...
...American Activities Committee were uncovering more leftists back East, the Hollywood Ten were cited for contempt, and Wayne decided that it was time to help out. "An actor is part of a bigger world than Hollywood," he announced. Together with Scenarist Chase and such rigid stalwarts as Actors Adolphe Menjou and Ward Bond, Wayne helped to form the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Wayne may have seen himself as a patriot. But next to some of his red-white-and-blue-blooded colleagues he looked a little pink. "We had a split in the group," Chase...
...that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose to vice president. In the 1947 movie, The Hucksters, in which Sydney Greenstreet represented Hill, suave Adolphe Menjou was supposed to be Foote, bleeding ulcerwise and beaming sycophantwise as Greenstreet spat on a conference table. "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well, and I don't think he could impersonate me very well," laughs Foote...
...business by working with Albert Lasker and George Washington Hill on American Tobacco's tumultuous Lucky Strike account. As some middle-aged moviegoers still remember, the Hollywood version of The Hucksters, a broad 1947 caricature of the ad game, cast Sydney Greenstreet as a raucous Hill, while Adolphe Menjou portrayed Foote as a harassed, jittery yes man. Said Foote at the time: "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well, and I don't think he could impersonate me very well...