Adolphe Menjou
17 titles
Filmography
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Letter of Introduction
(1938)An aging actor trying to make a comeback on Broadway is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up, an actress also trying to make it on Broadway.

Road Show
(1941)Wealthy playboy Drogo Gaines is in danger of marrying a gold digger and escapes by feigning insanity until he wakes up in an asylum and can't leave.

The Goldwyn Follies
(1938)Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In."

The Front Page
(1931)Hildy Johnson's current employer is full of reporters who invent stories as much as write about them. The paper's current story focuses on the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from jail, Hildy seizes upon the opportunity for a unique scoop.

The Milky Way
(1936)A slapstick classic about a meek milkman who becomes an unlikely boxing champ after he’s thought to have knocked out the true boxing champ in a fight.

Mr. District Attorney
(1947)On his first assignment as an assistant district attorney, a lawyer gets mixed up with a woman who is working for the group he's investigating.
Sing, Baby, Sing
(1936)A nightclub singer whose crazy agent gets her involved in schemes to advance her career. One wild scheme finally results in a radio contract.

Paths of Glory
(1957)Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war classic stars Kirk Douglas as a World War I commanding officer who defends his soldiers in a court-martial.

Stage Door
(1937)Ginger Rogers & Ann Miller tap in time & rat-a-tat lines. Lucille Ball braves a date with an obnoxious lumber baron.

A Star Is Born
(1937)A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

A Farewell to Arms
(1932)Un conductor de ambulancia estadounidense herido y una enfermera inglesa se enamoran en Italia durante el apogeo de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Step Lively
(1944)Gordon Miller (George Murphy) has a hit in the works, especially since he latched onto a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice. Now all that flimflamming Miller must do is put his musical revue on stage before the rubber check underwriting it bounces his troupe from Broadway to the Bowery. As the typewriter-toting crooner, Frank Sinatra steps into his first top billing in this antic backstage musical based on the Broadway/Marx Brothers movie hit Room Service. With a nimble cast (including Gloria DeHaven, Adolphe Menjou and Walter Slezak) and buoyant Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne songs to go with farce, footlights and Frank, what else can a movie do but Step Lively?

Heartbeat
(1946)A young woman runs away from reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and falls for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.

Across the Wide Missouri
(1951)One of those men is Flint Mitchell, who heads into Blackfoot territory with his fellow mountain men – and with his new Blackfoot bride who may be the key to their safety.

Through the Back Door
(1921)Years after Jeanne’s mother remarried and left her behind in Belgium for America, an unusual reunion is sparked with Germany’s World War I invasion.

Pollyanna
(1960)An orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets, despite her stifling aunt.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
(1923)A woman is betrayed and cast aside by her would-be fiance and ends up a "kept" woman in the company of the disreputable Adolphe Menjou.