Adolphe Menjou

Born: 1890-02-18, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Died: 1963-10-29

Biography

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Filmography

• The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Roxie Hart (1942)
• The Sniper (1952)
• Convention City (1933)
• Pollyanna (1960)
• Step Lively (1944)
• Stage Door (1937)
• A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
• State of the Union (1948)
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
• Manhattan Madness (1916)
• The Tall Target (1951)
• The Front Page (1931)
• The Hucksters (1947)
• Bundle of Joy (1956)
• Prestige (1932)
• Arabian Love (1922)
• One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
• Man on a Tightrope (1953)
• Café Metropole (1937)
• My Dream Is Yours (1949)
• The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
• The Sheik (1921)
• The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
• Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
• Timberjack (1955)
• Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
• The Great Flirtation (1934)
• The Valentine Girl (1917)