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By 1922, he was receiving top or near-top billing, with a selection of those films being with Famous Players–Lasky and Paramount Pictures, starting with Pink Gods (1922), although he did films for various studios and directors.
Known as an archetypal Frenchman, he is remembered as one of the best-dressed men in Hollywood. Adolphe’s career traversed from the silent era to that of the talkies, and he showcased his versatility by playing both heroic and villainous characters with equal ease.
Adolphe Menjou was one of the few Hollywood stars to make a successful transition from silent movies to talkies. The Rake finds out how he did it.
A dolphe Menjou was known as one of Hollywood's most debonair actors, a symbol of sophistication in his signature fine suits and black, smooth mustache. Menjou first gained his suave reputation...
In a career that spanned from the late teens to the early 1960s, Adolphe Menjou made a unique mark, not only for his formidable acting talent, but for how he looked while he was doing it. His was a rich and well-spent life.
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Menjou was an unapologetic hardcore right wing Republican and in 1947 he caused his career to dip when he testified before the U.S. Government's House Committee on Un-American Activities. He was fervently anti-Communist and he proved to be quite prepared to name names to the Committee.
The epitome of knavish, continental charm and sartorial opulence, Menjou, complete with trademark waxy black mustache, evolved into one of Hollywood's most distinguished of artists and fashion plates, a tailor-made scene-stealer, if you will. What is often forgotten is that he was primed as a matinée...
