Adolphe Menjou

Birth Name:

Adolphe Jean Menjou

Birth Place:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack, Producer

Named the Best Dressed Man in America several times during his career, and once jokingly claimed that he had no competition
Served as a captain of the Ambulance Corps during World War I
Graduated from Cornell University with an engineering degree
Helped run his father's restaurant in New York City for a time while he sought to establish himself as a professional actor
Quote: "(On acting as a business): "Of course it is a business, but no business is successful unless one's heart is in it․ I claim no producer, actor or director ever made a good picture in which he didn't believe․""
Best known for his roles in "The Front Page," "The Sheik," and "A Woman of Paris․"
Often cast as suave, debonair, man-about-town characters, and his look was never complete without his trademark waxy black mustache
Came across so well as a Frenchman in his silent film roles that many critics and audience members were surprised to hear his flawless English for the first time in the 1929 talkie "Fashions in Love․"

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