Editing Adolphe Menjou (section)

==Cultural references==
[[File:Portret van Adolphe Menjou To J. van der Linde Jr. ordially, Adolphe Menjou (titel op object), RP-F-F01577.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Portrait photograph of Adolphe Menjou]]Because of Menjou's public support of [[HUAC]], the propaganda of the [[German Democratic Republic]] (GDR) often depicted their western opponents with Menjou-style [[moustache]]s, and it was considered a statement of political opposition to trim one's moustache that way. The style became a symbol for the resourceful criminal, and in Germany is still called [[:de::Menjou-Bärtchen|''Menjou-Bärtchen'']] (Menjou [[beardlet]]). In German film and theatre, dubious men, opportunists, corrupt politicians, fraudulent persuaders, marriage impostors and other "slick" criminals often wear ''Menjou-Bärtchen''. In real life, the style is often associated with [[opportunism]].

[[Salvador Dalí]] admired Adolphe Menjou.<ref name="WhiteBuscombe2003">{{cite book| first1=Rob| last1=White| author2=Edward Buscombe| title=British Film Institute Film Classics| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V96tee1l2q8C&pg=PA120| year=2003| publisher=Taylor & Francis| isbn=978-1-57958-328-6|pages=120}}</ref>  He declared "''la moustache d'Adolphe Menjou est surréaliste''"<ref name="Nuridsany2004">{{cite book| first=Michel| last=Nuridsany| title=Dalí|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnFHAQAAIAAJ|year=2004| publisher=Flammarion| isbn=978-2-08-068222-2| page=177}}</ref> and began offering fake mustaches from a silver cigarette case to other people with the words "Moustache? Moustache? Moustache?"<ref name="Descharnes1984">{{cite book|first=Robert| last=Descharnes| title=Salvador Dali: The Work, the Man| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4UAkAQAAMAAJ| year=1984| publisher=H.N. Abrams| isbn=978-0-8109-0825-3| page=291}}</ref>

One of the most famous photographs by the avant-garde photographer [[Otto Umbehr|Umbo]] is titled "''Menjou En Gros''" ca. 1928.<ref>{{cite AV media |last=Umbo |title=Menjou en gros |url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/110182.html?mulR=808934302 |date=1980 |orig-year=1928 negative |type=Photograph |website=[[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

In the "Irresistible Andy" episode of ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', when Andy sees Barney dressed in fancy attire, Andy calls him "the Adolphe Menjou of Mayberry".

On the Season 2, Episode 11 [[Leave It To Beaver]], Ward states the world might have missed out on another Adolphe Menjou. 

In the movie ''[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]],'' Joe Gillis arrives to a young adult New Year's Eve party overdressed in a [[Vicuña|vicuna]] overcoat and a [[tailcoat]]. Artie Green surveys his outfit and asks, "Who'd you borrow that from? Adolphe Menjou?" [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] carries the line over to the [[Sunset Boulevard (musical)|musical adaption]] of the film.

In the [[Mario Puzo]] novel [[The Godfather (novel)|''The Godfather'']], character Jules Segall references the misdiagnosis of singer Johnny Fontane's throat troubles by an "Adolphe Menjou medical man..." 

In the [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|''M*A*S*H'']] episode, "Abyssinia, Henry," Henry Blake is departing the 4077th, attired in a comically dated suit and hat. Trapper tells him: "Henry, that suit is really you!" Hawkeye, after a perfectly timed beat, adds: "If you're Adolphe Menjou."