Menjou Still Leading Player After 20 Years
TN a profession notorious for its quick “fadeouts,” Adolphe Menjou has retained his popularity as a screen star for more than 20 years. In addition, he is called the man who accomplished the impossible because he made the transition from silent films to sound, and from sophisticated leads and heavies to characters, without losing his status as a player. In a recently finished picture “That’s Right. You’re Wrong,” he went back to a villian part. To add to his unusual record. Menjoit lias made pictures in more foreign languages than any other star in films, having appeared in screen productions in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. He has the distinction of having starred in the first talking picture in the French language. “Mon Gosse de Fere.” [u “A Bill of Divorcement,” yet to be released, Menjou delineates the char actor of an insane man restored to apparent sanity only to find that his wife has divorced him and is about to marry another man.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 5
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172Menjou Still Leading Player After 20 Years Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 5
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