- 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.
- Died of pneumonia in Oklahoma City at age 84.
- 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.
- 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.
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