Natty lead and secondary player who first came to prominence in Charlie Chaplin's "Woman of Paris" (1923). Menjou played debonair lotharios, slick manipulators and, on occasion, beady-eyed villains through the 1950s.
Family
SON: Peter Menjou. Adopted.
Companion
WIFE: Kathryn Carver. Actor. Second wife, married 1927-33.
WIFE: Verree Teasdale. Actor. Survived him.
Education
Culver Military Academy - Indiana
St Joseph's Seminary - Cleveland, Ohio
Stiles Preparatory School
Cornell University - Ithaca, New York - mechanical engineering - quit at end of third year
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963).
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of French and Irish descent,he attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. He made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service.
Returning from the war, he became a star in such films as The Sheik and The Three Musketeers. When he starred in 1923's A Woman of Paris, he solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town. His career stalled with the coming of talkies, but in 1930, he starred in Morocco, with Marlene Dietrich. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page (1931).
He ended his career with such roles as French General George Broulard in 1957's Paths of Glory, and as the town curmudgeon in Pollyanna in 1960.
In 1948, he published his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors.
Menjou has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blv
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