Adolphe Menjou

All Movies of Adolphe Menjou

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  Hollywood: The Great Stars
  Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
  Character: Louis Easton (archive footage)

   1963

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  6.5
  Pollyanna
  A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and ...
  Character: Mr. Pendergast

   1960

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  The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
  Laurel Srevens (Jane Russell), a movie star is kidnapped by a pair of amateurs, Mike Valla (Ralph Meeker) and "Dandy" (Keenan Wynn). But their hearts aren't really into their work and they decide to let her go. Laurel, w...
   1957

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  8.9
  Paths of Glory
  Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916 and the Allies have been struggling to overcome an equa...
  Character: Gen. George Broulard

   1957

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  Bundle of Joy
  Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the...
   1956

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  7.1
  Man on a Tightrope
  A based-on-fact account of an obscure, downtrodden little circus troupe and its attempt to escape from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia to freedom in Austria.
  Character: Fesker

   1953

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  7.0
  The Sniper
  Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes up with some ideas.
  Character: Police Lt. Frank Kafka

   1952

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  6.1
  Across the Wide Missouri
  In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds ...
  Character: Pierre

   1951

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  7.9
  The Tall Target
  A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
  Character: Colonel Caleb Jeffers

   1951

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  To Please A Lady
  Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He earned his bad-boy image after he is blamed for causing a fatal crash during a race. Wanting to see if all t...
  Character: Gregg

   1950

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  6.8
  My Dream Is Yours
  A talent scout turns a young unknown into a radio singing star.
  Character: Thomas Hutchins

   1949

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  7.1
  State of the Union
  Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. At an important dinner his wife Mary condemns corrupt politicians and...
  Character: Jim Conover

   1948

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  6.2
  The Hucksters
  Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary. The first thing he has to do is get a war widow to endorse Beautee So...
  Character: Mr. Kimberly

   1947

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  The Bachelor's Daughters
  A semi-trifle with Adolphe Menjou as a department store floor walker who is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls---two-bordering-on-three of which were well beyond the "girl" stage---to pose as their father in a ...
   1946

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  5.6
  Step Lively
  Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller i...
  Character: Wagner

   1944

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  7.0
  Hi Diddle Diddle
  When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
  Character: Col. Hector Phyffe

   1943

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  7.0
  You Were Never Lovelier
  The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order, oldest first. When sister #1 gets married, sisters #3 and #4 put pressure on Maria, sister #2, because they have their husban...
   1942

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  Father Takes a Wife
  Frederick Osborne, Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge merchantile fleet. Senior reveals that he is going to marry Leslie Collier, the famous s...
   1941

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  Road Show
  A playboy on the run hooks up with a sideshow''s beautiful owner.
   1941

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  A Bill of Divorcement
   1940

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  6.5
  Golden Boy
   1939

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  Thanks for Everything
  Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
   1938

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  6.0
  The Goldwyn Follies
   1938

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  6.0
  Café Metropole
  Victor Lobard, the smooth and nimble owner of the Café Metropole in Paris, has only ten days to replace a small fortune he embezzled from the business; he and a clerk face prison if he fails. He thinks he's won the money at a cas...
   1937

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  7.3
  A Star is Born
  Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor ...
   1937

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  7.9
  Stage Door
  Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of the...
  Character: Anthony Powell

   1937

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  6.3
  One Hundred Men and a Girl
  The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads t
   1937

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  4.0
  One in a Million
  American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
  Character: Tad Spencer

   1936

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  6.6
  Sing, Baby, Sing
  Nightclub singer Joan Warren's agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.
  Character: Bruce Farraday

   1936

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  6.0
  Gold Diggers of 1935
   1935

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  6.2
  Morning Glory
  Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer...
  Character: Louis Easton

   1933

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  Forbidden
  On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herse...
   1932

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  6.7
  A Farewell to Arms
  A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also a...
   1932

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  Prestige
  Shortly before she is to marry, Therese Du Flos learns that her fiancé, Lieutenant Andre Verlaine of the French army, has been promoted to captain and assigned to a penal colony in remote Lao Bao, China. Although she longs to go ...
   1932

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  6.0
  Friends and Lovers
  Character: Captain Geoffrey Roberts

   1931

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  7.0
  The Front Page
  Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are wa...
   1931

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  6.7
  Morocco
  In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier, though the millionaire wants to marry her. ...
   1930

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  The King on Main Street
   1925

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  7.3
  The Marriage Circle
  Character: Prof. Josef Stock

   1924

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  8.2
  A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
  Character: Pierre Revel

   1923

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  7.0
  The Three Musketeers
  The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to sav...
   1921

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  The Sheik
   1921