Date of birth: 1890-02-18
Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Adolphe Jean Menjou, Adolph Menjou, Адольф Менжу

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]

1957-10-25
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t

1960-05-19
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th

1949-04-15
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to

1932-12-08
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi

1937-04-20
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at

1933-08-18
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage.

1916-07-31
Young mechanical engineer John Ashton is trying to complete the plans for a new submarine. Under pre

1952-05-09
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their

1948-04-30
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both

1951-08-17
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid

1951-10-12
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed te

1923-10-01
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo

1936-02-07
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manage

1946-05-01
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

1930-11-14
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disi

1931-04-04
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e

1956-12-12
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large de

1934-06-01
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of

1944-07-26
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

1942-11-19
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

1935-07-27
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

1939-09-05
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter

1916-01-20
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

1937-10-08
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where a

1935-03-15
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a

1937-09-05
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends a
1928-04-07
Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who

1924-08-18
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and fa

1932-01-08
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance

1921-08-28
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends

1941-10-03
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.

1949-12-02
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the

1943-08-02
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's fat

1925-04-06
Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.

1942-02-20
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc

1924-02-10
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, s

1942-05-22
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

1956-07-26
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to h

1947-07-17
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be

1922-10-15
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has ov

1938-08-05
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter show

1940-05-31
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

1923-07-15
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to play the King once more. Lost adaptation of the eponymous

1934-12-23
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Bee

1921-05-05
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and tr

1953-05-21
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the borde

1972-01-10
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t

1958-03-01
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion mod

1925-07-14
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most o

1947-02-02
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

1933-04-10
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his s

1940-05-17
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the

1937-01-01
American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and bri

1927-01-08
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.

1916-10-01
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to

1931-02-07
A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" bu

1941-02-18
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning i

1947-02-20
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is in

1957-05-09
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her fil

1916-03-12
Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This

1931-07-18
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.

1939-11-24
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Ky

1932-01-22
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

1934-04-14
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His y

1937-04-28
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

1950-10-13
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him

1934-01-13
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a

1931-10-03
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sang

1934-03-10
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

1926-10-12
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a wr

1939-10-26
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

1936-08-21
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i

1946-08-06
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their fat

1945-11-16
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

1932-08-27
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.

1927-12-24

1933-12-14
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Presid

1921-03-13
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love.

1923-10-06
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells p

1938-12-23
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and

1931-03-14
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

1924-10-20

1926-02-21
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard

1930-12-23
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Ta

1916-10-23
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of

1924-01-02
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirato

1923-01-29
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted a

1955-02-18
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timbe

1932-06-26
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided

1928-01-13
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

1938-02-04
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from

1922-04-16
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency'

1924-09-01
Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo re

1924-05-19
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen

1925-02-16
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictu

1925-10-24
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.

1943-10-01
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as
1930-07-10
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a count

1931-06-09
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who

1924-02-18
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.

1923-03-31
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live.

1922-09-24
The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any w

1927-09-30
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he mee
1927-08-06
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foste

1929-07-01

1924-10-12
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabe

1917-10-01
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she fa

1922-09-17
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.

1932-08-17
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

1932-03-01
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other wo

1926-03-29
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. M

1921-11-20
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her of

1926-03-17
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L

1939-02-17
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on

1922-08-20
Cowboy Stanley Carson is visiting Virginia Martin in a southern city when her brother and his gamble

1922-11-26
Spanish dancer Bonita della Guerda has a dream in which she is killed by a jester after declaring he

1928-05-27
A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a raja

1928-11-17
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American t

1942-10-05
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair,

1936-09-18
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J.

1934-06-15
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

1933-12-03
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Bare

1934-09-01
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

1926-10-11
An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman

1927-03-19
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophistica

1929-01-27
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support

1930-05-01
Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthri

1916-07-03
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vanc
1931-04-17
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
1916-01-09
Rich wastrel Baron Chevrial fritters his days and nights away pursuing a series of young lovelies an

1917-04-22
Marion, a young girl, is given up by her guardian to be raised by her father who has a criminal past

1922-04-16
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the

1924-04-05
Helen Canfield leaps from the pleasure yacht of her philandering husband and is picked up by natives

1916-09-10
When rich civil engineer Robert Penfield goes to a small Quaker town in Pennsylvania to supervise a

1922-04-09
Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. "The Sheik" wins her in a game of dice but

1930-08-30
Paramount Pictures produced this French-language version of Slightly Scarlet (1930) , shot on the sa

1921-10-09
Simon Pepper lives as a miserly recluse since the death of his young wife thirty years earlier. He i