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Adolphe Menjou (Adolphe Jean Menjou) was born on 18 February, 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, is an actor,soundtrack,producer. Discover Adolphe Menjou's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Adolphe Jean Menjou
Occupation actor,soundtrack,producer
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 18 February 1890
Birthday 18 February
Birthplace Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of death 29 October, 1963
Died Place Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Adolphe Menjou Height, Weight & Measurements

At 73 years old, Adolphe Menjou height is 5' 10½" (1.79 m) .

Physical Status
Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
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Who Is Adolphe Menjou's Wife?

His wife is Verree Teasdale (25 August 1934 - 29 October 1963) ( his death) ( 1 child), Kathryn Carver (16 May 1928 - 24 August 1934) ( divorced), Katherine Conn Tinsley (1920 - 20 October 1927) ( divorced)

Family
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Wife Verree Teasdale (25 August 1934 - 29 October 1963) ( his death) ( 1 child), Kathryn Carver (16 May 1928 - 24 August 1934) ( divorced), Katherine Conn Tinsley (1920 - 20 October 1927) ( divorced)
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Adolphe Menjou Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Adolphe Menjou worth at the age of 73 years old? Adolphe Menjou’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Adolphe Menjou's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

The Faith Healer (1921)$500 per week
Sinners in Silk (1924)$3,000 per week
That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)$50,000

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1882

His Irish mother was a distant cousin of novelist / poet James Joyce ("Ulysses") (1882-1941). His French father, an émigré, eventually moved the family to Cleveland, where he operated a chain of restaurants. He disapproved of show business and sent an already piqued Adolphe to Culver Military Academy in Indiana in the hopes of dissuading him from such a seemingly reckless and disreputable career. From there Adolphe was enrolled at Stiles University prep school and then Cornell University. Instead of acquiescing to his father's demands and obtaining a engineering degree, however, he abruptly changed his major to liberal arts and began auditioning for college plays. He left Cornell in his third year in order to help his father manage a restaurant for a time during a family financial crisis. From there he left for New York and a life in the theater. Adolphe toiled as a laborer, a haberdasher and even a waiter in one of his father's restaurants during his salad days, which included some vaudeville work.

1890

The words "suave" and "debonair" became synonymous with the name Adolphe Menjou in Hollywood, both on- and off-camera. 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 idol back in the silent-film days. With hooded, slightly owlish eyes, a prominent nose and prematurely receding hairline, he was hardly competition for Rudolph Valentino, but he did possess the requisite demeanor to confidently pull off a roguish and magnetic man-about-town. Fluent in six languages, Menjou was nearly unrecognizable without some type of formal wear, and he went on to earn distinction as the nation's "best dressed man" nine times. Born on February 18, 1890, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was christened Adolphe Jean Menjou, the elder son of a hotel manager.

1915

Oddly enough, he never made it to Broadway but instead found extra and/or bit work for various film studios (Vitagraph, Edison, Biograph) starting in 1915. World War I interrupted his early career, and he served as a captain with the Ambulance Corps in France. After the war he found employment off-camera as a productions manager and unit manager. When the New York-based film industry moved west, so did Adolphe.

1919

In 1919, Menjou produced a series of two-minute shorts for J. Van Buren entitles "Topics of the Day".

1921

Nothing of major significance happened for the fledgling actor until 1921, an absolute banner year for him.

After six years of struggle he finally broke into the top ranks with substantial roles in The Faith Healer (1921) and Through the Back Door (1921), the latter starring Mary Pickford. He formed some very strong connections as a result and earned a Paramount contract in the process.

Cast by Mary's then-husband Douglas Fairbanks as Louis XIII in the rousing silent The Three Musketeers (1921), he finished off the year portraying the influential writer/friend Raoul de Saint Hubert in Rudolph Valentino's classic The Sheik (1921). Firmly entrenched in the Hollywood lifestyle, it took little time for Menjou to establish his slick prototype as the urbane ladies' man and wealthy roué.

1923

Paramount, noticing how Menjou stole scenes from Charles Chaplin favorite Edna Purviance in Chaplin's A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923), started capitalizing on Menjou's playboy image by casting him as various callous and creaseless matinée leads in such films as Broadway After Dark (1924), Sinners in Silk (1924), The Ace of Cads (1926), A Social Celebrity (1926) and A Gentleman of Paris (1927).

1927

His younger brother Henri Menjou, a minor actor, had a part in Adolphe's picture Blonde or Brunette (1927). The stock market crash led to the termination of Adolphe's Paramount contract, and his status as leading man ended with it. MGM took him on at half his Paramount salary and his fluency in such languages as French and Spanish kept him employed at the beginning.

1930

Rivaling Gary Cooper for the attentions of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) started the ball rolling for Menjou as a dressy second lead.

Quality parts in quality pictures became the norm for Adolphe during the 1930s, with outstanding roles given him in The Great Lover (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Forbidden (1932), Little Miss Marker (1934), Morning Glory (1933), A Star Is Born (1937), Stage Door (1937) and Golden Boy (1939).

1931

Rarely placed in leads following this period, he managed his one and only Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" with his performance as editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (1931). Not initially cast in the role, he replaced Louis Wolheim, who died ten days into rehearsal.

1933

The first Drive-In Theater was devised by Richard M. Hollingshead in Camden, New Jersey and opened on June 6, 1933. It had 400 slots and a 40 by 50 foot screen, and he advertised it with the slogan, "The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are." The first movie shown was "Wife Beware" starring Adolphe Menjou. His drive-in was in operation for only three years, but in that time the idea caught on in other states.

1934

Three times proved the charm for Adolphe with his 1934 marriage to actress Verree Teasdale, who survived him. The couple had an adopted son named Peter.

1940

The 1940s were not as golden, however.

1942

In addition to entertaining the troops overseas and making assorted broadcasts in a host of different languages, he did manage to get the slick and slimy Billy Flynn lawyer role opposite Ginger Rogers' felon in the "Chicago" adaptation Roxie Hart (1942), and continued to earn occasional distinction in such post-WWII pictures as The Hucksters (1947) and State of the Union (1948).

1944

In 1944, Menjou and Walt Disney formed the militant anti-Communist organization called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.

1947

Was a (very) "friendly witness" for the House Committee on Un-American Activities' hearings into alleged "Communist subversion" in Hollywood. He willingly "named names" to HUAC during his 1947 testimony and was well-known for his ultra-right-wing political stances. He once said that all Communists should be taken out and shot, regardless of whether they were American citizens or not.

1950

Menjou was also well known in the 1950s as a television pitch man for Drewrys Beer, and appeared in several Drewrys television commercials.

1952

His last lead was in the crackerjack thriller The Sniper (1952), in which he played an (urbane) San Francisco homicide detective tracking down a killer who preys on women in San Francisco, and he appeared without his mustache for the first time in nearly two decades.

1957

Also active on radio and TV, his last notable film was the classic anti-war picture Paths of Glory (1957) playing the villainous Gen. Broulard. Adolphe's extreme hardcore right-wing Republican politics hurt his later reputation, as he was made a scapegoat for his cooperation as a "friendly witness" at the House Un-American Activities Commission hearing during the Joseph McCarthy Red Scare era.

1960

Following his last picture, Disney's Pollyanna (1960), in which he played an uncharacteristically rumpled curmudgeon who is charmed by Hayley Mills, he retired from acting.

1963

He died after a nine-month battle with hepatitis on October 29, 1963, inside his Beverly Hills home.