Word: menjou
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...Adolphe Menjou, known for decades as cinema's fanciest-plumed male, got ready for a cross-country lecture tour that will give the citizenry the low-down on Hollywood. Said he: "Despite the fact that Hollywood is covered by more than 400 reporters, no one really knows what the town is like...
...Dream Is Yours (Warner) is a lightheaded musical as full of color and tunes as a jukebox. It has all been done before-frequently much better. A sort of musicomedy The Hucksters, it involves a radio talent scout (Jack Carson), his Hollywood boss (Adolphe Menjou) and a blonde disc jockey (Doris...
Medina, who looks like Movie Actor Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
...least six U.S. and two French versions of the story have been filmed. One of the first in the U.S. was produced in 1911 in two parts. The most famous was Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s version (United Artists, 1921) with Marguerite de la Motte and Adolphe Menjou...
After Angels, Hughes made five more pictures, including his two best: Scarface, with Paul Muni, and The Front Page, with Adolphe Menjou and a newcomer named Pat O'Brien. Then he turned to aviation. So far as Hollywood was concerned, he had come, seen, conquered. On one of his very rare visits back to Houston, he said to friends: "Movies are a cinch. The more you spend, the more you make...