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Died. Adolphe Menjou, 73, Hollywood's type-cast boulevardier and self-styled arbiter of sartorial elegance, the Pittsburgh-born son of an immigrant hotel manager, who became king of the silver screen's lounge lizards with A Woman of Paris in 1923, at his peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained...
Drawing Guffaws. Actors Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas and Ricardo Montalban have all appeared at the club to collect at one time or another; under California law they could keep coming back for 26 weeks in a row, make one well-paid movie appearance, and then begin again. Adolphe Menjou is a frequent visitor. After completing her part in Burke's Law, Rebecca Welles drove to Club 55 in her $10,000 Facel Vega. William Beaudine, director of TV's Lassie, often works one week out of three, collects his compensation the other two. After a filming...
...Octopus. One of his parishioners once said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made...
...Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...
...with his infallible instinct for what will fill the public's sweet tooth. Walt Disney has taken Pollyanna off the back shelf and, at a cost of $3,200,000, has photographed the little horror in throbbing colors, bloated it with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...