The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order, oldest first. Read More »
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Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Read More »
Forbidden (1932) Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Read More »
Morocco (1930) Josef von Sternberg, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto’s cabaret. Read More »
Stage Door (1937) Gregory La Cava, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. Read More »
Step Lively (1944) Tim Whelan, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble’s hotel…on credit. Read More »
The Goldwyn Follies (1938) George Marshall, H.C. Potter, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, The Ritz Brothers
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be “Miss Humanity” and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: “Love Walked In.” Read More »
Turnabout (1940) Hal Roach, Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life. Read More »
The Great Lover (1931) Harry Beaumont, Adolphe Menjou, Irene Dunne, Ernest Torrence, Drama, Romance
Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. Read More »
The Milky Way (1936) Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Comedy
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. Read More »
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Comedy, Music
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings Read More »
Easy to Love (1934) William Keighley, Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Comedy, Romance
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. Read More »
Broadway Gondolier (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. Read More »
Roxie Hart (1942) William A. Wellman, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Comedy, Crime, Romance
To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don’t seem to let dames swing Read More »
Road Show (1941) Hal Roach, Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Comedy, Music
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent 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 blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner. The adventures of Drogo and the Colonel with Moore’s Carnival are replete with Hal Roach slapstick.
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