Word: menjou
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...spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while the camera catches pattern after pattern in the twisting, writhing pages of his burning books. Here Is My Heart (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who remember that brilliant picture, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, in which Adolphe Menjou performed...
...studio found the young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post of honor was the head of Mae West and on shelves, ready to be mounted, were the staring heads of Los Angeles' own heroes: Will Rogers, Lon Chaney. Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Tibbett, Bela Lugosi...
Married. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor (A Woman of Paris, Farewell to Arms, The Trumpet Blows}; and Verree Teasdale, stage & cinemactress (The Greeks Had a Word for It, Skyscraper Souls]; in Hollywood. It was his third, her second...
...important a star Shirley Temple was to be became apparent with her second picture, Little Miss Marker. In this, still getting $150 a week, she appeared with Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford the late Dorothy Dell. The picture played three weeks at the New York Paramount equaled the record of Mae West's She Done Him Wrong, caused Fox to produce a story written especially for Cinemactress Temple called Baby, Take...
...Great Flirtation (Paramount). A Hungarian actor (Adolphe Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi...