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Adolphe Menjou
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| Known for: | Paths of Glory, A Star Is Born, A Farewell to Arms |
| Birth name: | Adolphe Jean Menjou |
| Birthday: | 18 February 1890, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Height: | 5' 10" (1.78 m) |
Trivia
Name patron of the Menjou moustache
Cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigative hearings in Hollywood in 1947.
Adolphe attended the Culver Military Academy and eventually graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. He also was a captain in the Ambulance Corps during World War I.
His mother (Nora Joyce) was from Connemara, Ireland.
First-generation American of mixed French-Irish ancestry. His French-born father was a successful hotel manager and his mother was from Connemara, Ireland.
Voted Best Dressed Man in America nine times over the years, his autobiography was appropriately entitled "It Took Nine Tailors."
Cousin of author James Joyce.
Brother of actor Henri Menjou.
Was a (very) Friendly Witness for the House Committee on Un-American Activities' hearings on Communists in Hollywood. He willingly "named names" to HUAC during his 1947 testimony and was well-known for his far-right personal politics.
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