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Miss Chatterton has the role of the murderess and Adolph Menjou plays opposite her as her husband playwright whose philanderings with the beautiful and popular star of his revue, leads to the tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Nancy Lorraine Joan Blendell Kent Adolphe Menjou Jerry Ford Dick Powell Arline Dale Mary Astor George Ellerbee Guy Kibbee Will Edwin Frank McHugh...

Author: By G. R. C. and E. W. R., S | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

...much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved, but the movie has been assembled quite expertly and intelligently. The cast, with the exception of Adolphe Menjou who is a back slapping high-pressure salesman and quite unsuited to the part, could not have been better. Joan Blondell is a charming gold digger, and Guy Kibbee is as ludicrous as Harpo in his blonde chasing escapades...

Author: By G. R. C. and E. W. R., S | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

Easy to Love (Warner Bros.). The married estate of Carol (Genevieve Tobin) and John (Adolphe Menjou) is accurately outlined when she remarks: "First a double bed. then twin beds, now separate rooms." When Carol discovers her husband is consorting with her best friend Charlotte (Mary Astor), she acquires a nominal friend of her own (Ed ward Everett Horton). Carol's aimless attempts to get her husband back permit all four characters to engage in some wan didoes but in the end it takes Carol's daughter (Patricia Ellis) to bring her parents together. Shots for admirers of blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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