Adolphe Menjou (18 February 1890-29 October 1963) was an American actor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born to a French father and an Irish mother, he was raised a Roman Catholic and served in the US Army ambulance service during World War I. He became an actor during the 1920s, starring in hit Hollywood films such as A Farewell to Arms and A Star is Born. Menjou was also an active Republican who equated the Democratic Party with socialism, supported Herbert Hoover's policy of "rugged individualism" during the Great Depression, supported Thomas E. Dewey's 1944 presidential campaign, and cooperated with HUAC during the Second Red Scare. He died in Beverly Hills, California in 1963.