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Jun 22, 2023 · It Took Nine Tailors is a story told in Adolphe Menjou's own voice that recounts life from his 1890 birth in Pittsburgh through days spent working in his father's restaurants and early travails breaking into the acting business right into detailed stories of breaking into movies and climbing the ladder to become a leading man.
May 9, 2022 · It Took Nine Tailors is a story told in Adolphe Menjou’s own voice that recounts life from his 1890 birth in Pittsburgh through days spent working in his father’s restaurants and early travails breaking into the acting business right into detailed stories of breaking into movies and climbing the ladder to become a leading man.
- Adolphe Menjou, M.M. Musselman
May 7, 2022 · It Took Nine Tailors is a story told in Adolphe Menjou’s own voice that recounts life from his 1890 birth in Pittsburgh through days spent working in his father’s restaurants and early travails breaking into the acting business right into detailed stories of breaking into movies and climbing the ladder to become a leading man.
- Adolphe Menjou, M.M. Musselman
Foreword to Adolphe Menjou’s autobiography, “It Took Nine Tailors”. by Clark Gable. Published in 1948. In Hollywood nothing less than sensational or colossal is considered worthy of recording and legendary characters are as numerous as a press agent’s adjectives. Although this fosters a quick turnover in immortals and a short memory for ...
IT TOOK NINE TAILORS. New York & Toronto: McGraw - Hill, (1948). First edition. Photo illustrated. Menjou's autobiography, with a foreword by Clark Gable. INSCRIBED and/or SIGNED on front endpaper by MENJOU and Hollywood luminaries such as FRED ASTAIRE, GINGER ROGERS, RANDOLPH SCOTT, HOAGY CARMICHAEL, REGINALD OWEN, M. M. Musselman, George Folsey, et al. Dust jacket caricature of Menjou is by ...
In his introduction to Menjou’s autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors (which gets The Rake’s vote for best book title ever), his friend Clark Gable eulogises his talents as a financial genius (he played the stock market with some success), an intellectual (he could “converse on Balkan politics of the 1910s”, among other recondite topics ...
It Took Nine Tailors is a story told in Adolphe Menjou's own voice that recounts life from his 1890 birth in Pittsburgh through days spent working in his father's restaurants and early travails breaking into the acting business right into detailed stories of breaking into movies and climbing the ladder to become a leading man.It was Menjou's mustache and a top hat rented for fifty cents that ...
