Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...censor's level. It is seldom that what is known as a "society drama" makes a deep dent when caught by the camera. Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room. The Fast Set makes no exception. Adolph J. Menjou gives his usual complete and competent performance...
...rider, and between the lightweight's husband and the rider's street girl is unsatisfying because their faces, not their wits, are in the focus. The scenes are at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris during the closing hours of a six-day bicycle race. Adolphe Menjou, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith offer three of the best performances ever concentrated in one film...
Sinners In Silk. Modern youth again fairly aimiably concerned with nothing in particular. Profitable only for a great deal of expensive scenery and Adolphe Menjou...
...case Claire Windsor, daughter of socially prominent Manhattanites disporting on the edge of bankruptcy. Her impecunious suitor is discarded and a wealthy one selected. Returning from a party at which the engagement was announced, the plutocratic fiance is killed in an automobile wreck. This opens the field for Adolphe Menjou-wealthy, socially ambitious. Claire's father has misappropriated money entrusted to him for investment by Menjou...
...ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture is made consistently interesting through good direction, through good acting by Percy Marmont, Leatrice Joy, Adolph Menjou and particularly Laska Winter as a half-caste girl, and through a smashing wreck at sea which solves the triangular situation with one slap of the waves...