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American actor (–)

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, – October 29, ) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies.

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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 ^[1]

Early life

Adolphe Jean Menjou was born on February 18, , in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a French father, Albert Menjou (&#;), and a mother from Ireland, Nora (née Joyce, &#;).^[2][3] His brother, Henry Arthur Menjou (&#;), was a year younger.

He was raised Catholic, attended the Culver Military Academy, and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. Attracted to the vaude