Biography: Adolphe Menjou |
Debonair and sophisticated, Adolphe Menjou was an impeccably-dressed lead actor with a waxed black mustache. At age 21 he moved to New York with no intention of becoming an actor; three years later he drifted into films as an extra, then got some... more
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Cast: Stanley Kubrick Kirk Douglas
Tags: War Drama Message Movie Anti-War Film War
Length: 86min
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year...
Cast: John Wayne George Gobel
Length: 84min
I Married a Woman was tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel. Lonesome Gobel plays an advertising man whose successful "Miss Luxemburg Beer Beauty Contest" campaign yields a most unusual...
Cast: Karl Malden
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Drama Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 134min
Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers...
Cast: Debbie Reynolds
Tags: Musical Comedy Melodrama
Length: 98min
This musicalized remake of the 1939 comedy Bachelor Mother stars Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (then Mr. and Mrs.) in the roles originated by Ginger Rogers and David Niven. Reynolds plays a department store salesgirl whose life is turned...
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
Cast: Olivia de Havilland Myrna Loy Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 102min
The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband), De Havilland tries to dissuade narrow-minded senator Adolphe Menjou from declaring Paris "off limits" to American servicemen. One such...
Cast: Hoagy Carmichael
Length: 94min
Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged lumbermen who vie for the attentions of Lynn Tilton (Vera Ralston). The...
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 87min
The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe...
Cast: Elia Kazan Fredric March
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 105min
Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of Czechoslovakian circus performers who have been plying their trade in Eastern Europe for years. When Czechoslovakia falls under...
Cast: Dick Powell Ruby Dee
Tags: Thriller Drama Political Thriller Period Film
Length: 78min
The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was able to assume his duties in Washington. Dick Powell stars as New York detective John Kennedy, who learns of the assassination...
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
Cast: Clark Gable
Tags: Epic Western Western Indian Western
Length: 78min
Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives purely by his wits, Gable avoids being scalped by the Blackfoot Indians by marrying Maria Elena Marques, the chief's daughter....
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