Adolphe Menjou — Actor (38)
Convention City (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Convention City
director: Archie Mayo actor: Joan Blondell / Adolphe Menjou
other title: ¡Que semana! / ¡Qué semana!
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
director: Frank Reicher actor: Buster Keaton / Ramon Novarro
other title: Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Manhattan Madness (1916) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Manhattan Madness
director: Allan Dwan actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Jewel Carmen
other title: Une aventure à New York / ドーグラスの好奇
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.
The Circus Queen Murder (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Circus Queen Murder
other title: La farándula trágica
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sing, Baby, Sing
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Alice Faye / Adolphe Menjou
other title: 唱吧宝贝 / 唱吧寶貝
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hi Diddle Diddle
other title: 钻石与罪犯 / 鑽石與罪犯
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.
Fascinating Youth (1926) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Fascinating Youth
director: Sam Wood actor: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers / Jack Luden
other title: 冰上争婚记
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Nearly a King (1916) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Nearly a King
director: Frederick A. Thomson actor: John Barrymore / Katherine Corri Harris
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
The Tall Target (1951) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Tall Target
director: 安东尼·曼 actor: 迪克·鲍威尔 / 宝拉·雷蒙德
other title: 血泊飞车 / Verschwörung im Nachtexpress
The Tall Target is a 1951 crime film starring Dick Powell as a police sergeant who tries to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at a train stop as Lincoln travels to his inauguration. It is based on the alleged Baltimore Plot.
巴黎舞厅 (1937) [Movie] Douban
Café Metropole
director: 爱德华·H·格里菲斯 actor: 洛丽泰·扬 / 泰隆·鲍华
other title: Café Metropole
In Paris, young American Power is in debt to nightclub owner Menjou who forces him to woo heiress Young in hopes of reaping her fortune.
宫廷禁恋 (1924) [Movie] Douban
Forbidden Paradise
director: 恩斯特·刘别谦 actor: 波拉·尼格丽 / 罗德·拉·罗克奎
other title: Forbidden Paradise
Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking country. Rescued from revolutionaries by dashing Captain Alexis Czerny (Rod LaRocque), Catherine "repays" the Captain in the boudoir. Czerny falls madly in love with the Czarina, only to discover that he is the latest in a long line of royal consorts. Angrily, he joins the rebellion, vowing to topple the monarchy (but promising that Catherine will remain unharmed). When the revolution fails, Czerny is sentenced to death, but Catherine rescinds the order and allows him a happily-ever-after with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anna (Pauline Starke). Adolphe Menjou, a favorite of Lubitsch's, has all the film's best scenes as a rakish chancellor. Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchoir Lengyel, Forbidden Paradise was remade in 1945 as A Royal Scandal, with Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine; the 1945 film was produced by Ernst Lubitsch, who fell ill during shooting and was forced to relinquish the directorial responsibilities to Otto Preminger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Turnabout (1948) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Turnabout
director: 哈尔 罗奇 (Hal Roach) actor: Adolphe Menjou / Carole Landis
other title: 倒转乾坤 / volte-face
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.