Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Menjou

February 18, 1890

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…

Known For

21 titles
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Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory

1957 · 1h 28m · Movie

A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.

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A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937 · 1h 51m · Movie

Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.

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Morocco

Morocco

1930 · 1h 32m · Movie

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

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A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

1932 · 1h 20m · Movie

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.

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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923 · 1h 22m · Movie

A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.

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You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

1942 · 1h 37m · Movie

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

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The Sniper

The Sniper

1952 · 1h 28m · Movie

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

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The Sheik

The Sheik

1921 · 1h 26m · Movie

A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.

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9
The Front Page

The Front Page

1931 · 1h 41m · Movie

A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.

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Morning Glory

Morning Glory

1933 · 1h 14m · Movie

When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.

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11
The Tall Target

The Tall Target

1951 · 1h 18m · Movie

A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.

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Forbidden

Forbidden

1932 · 1h 25m · Movie

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.

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13
Roxie Hart

Roxie Hart

1942 · 1h 15m · Movie

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

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Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope

1953 · 1h 45m · Movie

A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

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Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker

1934 · 1h 20m · Movie

Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.

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One Hundred Men and a Girl

One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937 · 1h 24m · Movie

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...

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

1921 · 1h 59m · Movie

Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his...

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18
Heartbeat

Heartbeat

1946 · 1h 42m · Movie

In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.

5.9
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Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle

1943 · 1h 12m · Movie

After 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.

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20
The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer

1923 · 1h 43m · Movie

A love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer.

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Thanks for Everything

Thanks for Everything

1938 · 1h 10m · Movie

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.

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