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During World War II he served as a captain in U.S. Air Force Intelligence, but despite his proficiency in European languages he was assigned to the Pacific Theater.

Majored in Modern Languages at Oklahoma University and was fluent in Italian, German, Spanish, and French.

Appeared in the Broadway version of The Gay Divorcee in 1932 prior to the movie version.

Died of pneumonia in Oklahoma City at age 84.

Stage actor best remembered in films as the mustachioed, feather- brained, continental type in two Astaire-Rogers mistaken-identity romps: The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935).

Rhodes idolized Douglas Fairbanks.

Rhodes' screen debut was in the British low-budgeter "Give Her a Ring" in 1933 although it did not receive a U.S. release until three years later.