Adolphe Menjou
1) Road Show
Author
Language
English
Description
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is 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 blond & carnival owner. A classic screwball comedy directed by Laurel & Hardy veteran, Hal Roach.
Author
Publisher
Whittlesey House
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
Adolphe Menjou is the man who made "suave" a noun. ("For this part we want somebody with plenty of suave--you know, the Menjou-type.") This memoir is, above all else, suave. It took nine tailors and thirty-five years as Hollywood's beloved man-about-town to make Adolphe Menjou what he is today. The autobiographical story begins with Menjou a waiter in his father's "Maison Menjou" in New York and ends in the present. It was Menjou's mustache and a...
4) Morocco
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Marlene Dietrich is a cabaret singer who arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight; but true love reaches her at last.
Series
Publisher
Mk2 Editions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A king in New York: A king fleeing a revolution takes refuge in the USA. He is led by an advertising agent to make commercials, is suspected of being a communist, testifies before the Un-American Activities Committee and returns to Europe ; A woman of Paris: When her elopement to her beau fails, Marie winds up in Paris as a kept woman whose attempt at reconciliation with her true love only leads to more grief and, finally, tragedy.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses producer Adolphe Menjou and playwright Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with her naively pretentious prattle, but neither man takes her too seriously. Both, however are attracted to Eva: Menjou has a brief affair with her, but she yearns for the more reserved Fairbanks. Partly out of sympathy, Fairbanks arranges for Eva to understudy the troublesome...
Author
Language
English
Description
Frederic Henry, an American driving ambulances for the Army during World War I, falls for Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley, to the displeasure of jealous commanding officer Major Rinaldi, who moves Catherine to a different hospital out of spite. But after Frederic is injured on the battlefield, he is evacuated to her new hospital in Milan, and the star-crossed lovers begin their romance anew.
Series
Criterion collection ; 849
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
The front page: A newspaper editor and his ace reporter battle each other while fighting...
12) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection ; 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The Acunas family is a family of tradition. The family holds the ritual of making sure that their daughters get married in order of age. When the second daughter does not follow the tradition quick enough her sister resort to finding her a lover.
14) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.
15) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection ; 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
17) A Star Is Born
Author
Language
English
Description
A Star Is Born traces the rise of an aspiring actress (Janet Gaynor) to the heights of fame and fortune, while also charting the obverse trajectory of her matinee-idol husband (Fredric March) who discovered her. As she reaches the peaks of success, he falls into an alcoholic depression.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
In A farewell to arms, Gary Cooper is a handsome American ambulance driver and Helen Hayes is the devoted British nurse whose paths cross during World War I. In Meet John Doe, Gary Cooper plays a down-on-his-luck ball player who comes to embody the hopes and dreams of the American public.
