Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Menjou

Born: February 18, 1890
Died: October 29, 1963
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Movies for Adolphe Menjou...

Zelig
Title: Zelig
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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The Love Goddesses
Title: The Love Goddesses
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 3, 1965
Type: Movie
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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Pollyanna
Title: Pollyanna
Character: Mr. Pendergast
Released: May 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
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Title: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: Fitch
Released: September 21, 1959
Type: TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.
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I Married a Woman
Title: I Married a Woman
Character: Frederick W. Sutton
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
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Title: Target (US)
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: TV
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Paths of Glory
Title: Paths of Glory
Character: Gen. George Broulard
Released: October 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Title: The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Character: Arthur Martin
Released: May 9, 1957
Type: Movie
When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
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Bundle of Joy
Title: Bundle of Joy
Character: J. B. Merlin
Released: December 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Senator Jonathan Carwright
Released: July 26, 1956
Type: Movie
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
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Timberjack
Title: Timberjack
Character: 'Sweetwater' Tilton
Released: February 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
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Title: The George Gobel Show
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1954
Type: TV
The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.
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Man on a Tightrope
Title: Man on a Tightrope
Character: Fesker
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
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Title: Your Favorite Story
Character: Host
Released: January 11, 1953
Type: TV
Your Favorite Story is the title of a TV comedy anthology series that aired from 1953 through 1955. It premiered in December 1954 with the title Your Favorite Playhouse. This program was adapted from the radio show Favorite Story which ran from 1946 through 1949. The program's 25 episodes starred Adolphe Menjou and featured episodes originally written by Leonard St. Clair, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Frank R. Stockton.
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The Sniper
Title: The Sniper
Character: Frank Kafka
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
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Across the Wide Missouri
Title: Across the Wide Missouri
Character: Pierre
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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The Tall Target
Title: The Tall Target
Character: Caleb Jeffers
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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To Please a Lady
Title: To Please a Lady
Character: Gregg
Released: October 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Melville Crossman
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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My Dream Is Yours
Title: My Dream Is Yours
Character: Thomas Hutchins
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
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State of the Union
Title: State of the Union
Character: Jim Conover
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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The Hucksters
Title: The Hucksters
Character: Mr. Kimberly
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Craig Warren
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
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I'll Be Yours
Title: I'll Be Yours
Character: J. Conrad Nelson
Released: February 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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The Bachelor's Daughters
Title: The Bachelor's Daughters
Character: Alexander Moody
Released: August 6, 1946
Type: Movie
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ambassador
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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Man Alive
Title: Man Alive
Character: Kismet
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Step Lively
Title: Step Lively
Character: Wagner
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Title: Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Character: Tom Moran
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Title: Hi Diddle Diddle
Character: Hector Phyffe
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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You Were Never Lovelier
Title: You Were Never Lovelier
Character: Eduardo Acuña
Released: November 19, 1942
Type: Movie
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Title: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Syncopation
Title: Syncopation
Character: George Latimer
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Billy Flynn
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Father Takes a Wife
Title: Father Takes a Wife
Character: Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
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Road Show
Title: Road Show
Character: Col. Carleton Carroway
Released: February 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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A Bill of Divorcement
Title: A Bill of Divorcement
Character: Hilary Fairfield
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Phil Manning
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Stacey Delmore
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Deakon Maxwell
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Tom Moody
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: Jim Mason
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Thanks for Everything
Title: Thanks for Everything
Character: J. B. Harcourt
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
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Letter of Introduction
Title: Letter of Introduction
Character: John Mannering
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
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The Goldwyn Follies
Title: The Goldwyn Follies
Character: Oliver Merlin
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Anthony Powell
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
Title: One Hundred Men and a Girl
Character: John Cardwell
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
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Café Metropole
Title: Café Metropole
Character: Monsieur Victor
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Oliver Niles
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Tad Spencer
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
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Wives Never Know
Title: Wives Never Know
Character: J. Hugh Ramsey
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Bruce Farraday
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
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]).
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Gabby Sloan
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Professor Eduardo de Vinci
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: Nicolai Nicoleff
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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The Mighty Barnum
Title: The Mighty Barnum
Character: Bailey Walsh
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Gregory Sheldon
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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The Great Flirtation
Title: The Great Flirtation
Character: Stephan Karpath
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Sorrowful Jones
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
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The Trumpet Blows
Title: The Trumpet Blows
Character: Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Paul Mollet
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: John
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: T.R. (Ted) Kent
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Title: The Worst Woman in Paris?
Character: Adolphe Ballou
Released: December 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Louis Easton
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
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The Circus Queen Murder
Title: The Circus Queen Murder
Character: Thatcher Colt
Released: April 10, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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A Farewell to Arms
Title: A Farewell to Arms
Character: Major Rinaldi
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
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The Night Club Lady
Title: The Night Club Lady
Character: Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Title: Diamond Cut Diamond
Character: Dan McQueen
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
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Bachelor's Affairs
Title: Bachelor's Affairs
Character: Andrew Hoyt
Released: June 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
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Two White Arms
Title: Two White Arms
Character: Maj. Carey Liston
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Bob
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu
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Prestige
Title: Prestige
Character: Capt. Remy Bandoin
Released: December 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
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Friends and Lovers
Title: Friends and Lovers
Character: Captain Geoffrey Roberts
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
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The Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Paurel
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
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We're switching to Hollywood
Title: We're switching to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: June 9, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Let Us Be Gay
Title: Let Us Be Gay
Character: Bob Brown
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Walter Burns
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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Men Call It Love
Title: Men Call It Love
Character: Tony
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: William 'Will' Brockton
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Governor Boris Brusiloff
Released: December 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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Morocco
Title: Morocco
Character: Monsieur La Bessiere
Released: November 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
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Bold Love
Title: Bold Love
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a countess and become friendly with the Corbetts, a nouveau-riche American couple residing on the Costa Azul.
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My Kid of a Father
Title: My Kid of a Father
Character: Jérôme Rocheville
Released: May 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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Fashions in Love
Title: Fashions in Love
Character: Paul de Remy
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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Marquis Preferred
Title: Marquis Preferred
Character: Marquis d'Argenville
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
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His Private Life
Title: His Private Life
Character: Georges St. Germain
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!
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His Tiger Lady
Title: His Tiger Lady
Character: Henri
Released: May 27, 1928
Type: Movie
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A Night of Mystery
Title: A Night of Mystery
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who is now married to Rochemore, a French magistrate, to return her love letters. Leaving he witness the murder of Rochemore.
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The Circus: Premiere
Title: The Circus: Premiere
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Franz Rossi
Released: December 24, 1927
Type: Movie
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A Gentleman of Paris
Title: A Gentleman of Paris
Character: Marquis de Marignan
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
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Service for Ladies
Title: Service for Ladies
Character: Albert Leroux
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
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Evening Clothes
Title: Evening Clothes
Character: Lucien d'Artois
Released: March 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
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Blonde or Brunette
Title: Blonde or Brunette
Character: Henri Martel
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Character: Prince Lucio de Rimanez
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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The Ace of Cads
Title: The Ace of Cads
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman.
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A Social Celebrity
Title: A Social Celebrity
Character: Max Haber
Released: March 29, 1926
Type: Movie
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Adolphe Menjou
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Title: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Character: Albert Durant
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
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The King On Main Street
Title: The King On Main Street
Character: The King
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
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Are Parents People?
Title: Are Parents People?
Character: Mr. Hazlitt
Released: July 14, 1925
Type: Movie
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
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A Kiss in the Dark
Title: A Kiss in the Dark
Character: Walter Grenham
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
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The Swan
Title: The Swan
Character: Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
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The Fast Set
Title: The Fast Set
Character: Ernest Steel
Released: October 20, 1924
Type: Movie
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Open All Night
Title: Open All Night
Character: Edmund Durverne
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
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Sinners in Silk
Title: Sinners in Silk
Character: Arthur Merrill
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery so that he may enjoy life again. Transformed, he attends a wild jazz party given by Penelope and persuades her to visit his apartment, but he finds that she is a "good girl" and only flirting. After he gives Penelope a scare and a lecture, her old beau, Brock Farley, enters with a letter to Arthur that reveals Brock to be his son. Arthur gladly steps aside, renounces his wild living, and returns to a simple life.
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Broken Barriers
Title: Broken Barriers
Character: Tommy Kemp
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
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Broadway After Dark
Title: Broadway After Dark
Character: Ralph Norton
Released: May 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
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Shadows of Paris
Title: Shadows of Paris
Character: Georges de Croy
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
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The Marriage Circle
Title: The Marriage Circle
Character: Professor Josef Stock
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity. Through a misunderstanding, Charlotte thinks that her husband is interested in Miss Hofer, and asks Mizzi to keep him occupied... around and around the circle goes in Lubitsch's refined comedy of mistaken infidelity.
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Forbidden Paradise
Title: Forbidden Paradise
Character: Chancellor
Released: January 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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The Spanish Dancer
Title: The Spanish Dancer
Character: Don Salluste
Released: October 6, 1923
Type: Movie
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Title: A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Character: Pierre Revel
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
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Rupert of Hentzau
Title: Rupert of Hentzau
Character: Count Rischenheim
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more. Lost Adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope nove, the sequel of the Prisoner of Zenda.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Mr. Chepstow
Released: March 31, 1923
Type: Movie
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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The World's Applause
Title: The World's Applause
Character: Robert Townsend
Released: January 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married to Elsa (Williams), the sister of John Elliott (Stone), the producer responsible for Corinne's rise to fame. The young woman's head is turned by the praise she receives and, despite John's warning against Robert, she permits the latter to paint her portrait and pay her a good deal of attention. John himself loves Corinne and believes that wisdom will come to her with time.
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Singed Wings
Title: Singed Wings
Character: Bliss Gordon
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Singed Wings 1922
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Hubert Stein
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler household is going through quite a bit of turmoil -- Mrs. Wheeler feels neglected by her husband and is jealous of Violet Pinney, the governess. Daughter Cora is planning to elope with her father's secretary, Hubert Stem. Son Bobby, meanwhile, has been making passes at the maid.
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The Eternal Flame
Title: The Eternal Flame
Character: Duc de Langeais
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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The Fast Mail
Title: The Fast Mail
Character: Cal Baldwin
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
The Fast Mail (1922)
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Head Over Heels
Title: Head Over Heels
Character: Sterling
Released: April 16, 1922
Type: Movie
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
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The Sheik
Title: The Sheik
Character: Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Louis XIII
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Through The Back Door
Title: Through The Back Door
Character: James Brewster
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
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The Faith Healer
Title: The Faith Healer
Character: Dr. Littlefield
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money. She marries him, and after their child is born, she is confronted with life's harsh realities after her husband demands more and more money with which to support his mistress.
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
Title: The Blue Envelope Mystery
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.
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Manhattan Madness
Title: Manhattan Madness
Character: Country Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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.
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The Devil at His Elbow
Title: The Devil at His Elbow
Character: Wilfred Carleton
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Crucial Test
Title: The Crucial Test
Character: Count Nicolai
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
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The Habit of Happiness
Title: The Habit of Happiness
Character: Society Man (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party.
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Nearly a King
Title: Nearly a King
Character: Baron
Released: January 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.