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...Cobb's novel, a bestseller in 1935 and one of the most powerful antimilitaristic tracts inspired by World War I. The story tells what happened before, during and after an attack by a French regiment on the Western Front. The attack was suggested by the corps commander (Adolphe Menjou) merely as a means of fortifying his personal reputation. It was ordered by the division commander (George Macready). mostly out of vanity and the desire to ingratiate. The attack was impossible from the start, and it failed disastrously-one whole company, for instance, was cut down even before...
...those skeptics who really think that movies aren't like life, the Keith Memorial is showing Bundle of Joy, which features Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher in their first co-starring picture. There is humor, too, with Adolph Menjou as Daddy Fisher...
...always suspected that your movie reviewer has a long one instead of a short one before he goes to a show. In the review of The Ambassador's Daughter [Sept. 17] appeared the mistake that Forsythe thought Olivia and her father (Edward Arnold) were lovers. It was Adolphe Menjou, the Senator, that Forsythe thought was the lover. Your reviewer tries to be smart and ends up being neither smart nor accurate, but silly...
...this suppositious premise, Producer-Writer-Director Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna devotes 102 Technicolored minutes of debate. The affirmative is passionately upheld by Olivia de Havilland, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to France, who archly masquerades as a Dior mannequin to prove her point. The negative is defended by Adolphe Menjou, who plays a U.S. Senator determined to have Paris declared off limits to G.I.s, presumably on the grounds that it is too good for them...
...moviedom's topflight fashion plates, spry Boulevardier Adolphe Menjou, 65, happy veteran of more than 21 years of marriage to Verree Teasdale Menjou, paid tribute to the sartorial keystone of the marital arch. Suavely twirling his waxy mustache, Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints...