1000+ images about Barrymore family on Pinterest | Fredric march, Stage name and Los angeles Forward The patriarch of the Barrymore acting family, Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth (1849-1905) scandalized his family by choosing a career in acting rather than the law. Taking the stage name "Maurice Barrymore," to spare his family the shame of having an actor in the family, he fled England in 1874 for New York, then soon met and married Georgiana Drew (1854-1893), the daughter of Louisa Drew. In the years that followed, the Barrymores became one of the nation's most successful theatrical… See More Ethel Barrymore - Biography - IMDb Ethel Barrymore Biography Showing all 38 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (16) | Personal Quotes (10) | Salary (5) Overview (5) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana.

Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly 's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian theater of America and England. The Barrymore children were born and grew up in Philadelphia. Though older brother Lionel Barrymore began acting early with his mother's relatives in the Drew theater company, Ethel, after a traditional girl's schooling, planned on becoming a concert pianist. The lure of the stage was perhaps congenital, however. She made her debut as a stage actress during the New York City season of 1894. Her youthful stage presence was at once a pleasure, a strikingly pretty and winsome face and large dark eyes that seemed to look out from her very soul. Her natural talent and distinctive voice only reinforced the physical presence of someone destined to command any role set before her.

After the opportunity to appear on the London stage with English great Henry Irving in "The Bells" (1897) and later in "Peter the Great" (1898), she returned to New York to star in the Clyde Fitch play "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" (1901) (produced by her friend and benefactor Charles Frohman ), which brought her initial American acclaim. Lead roles, such as Nora in Henrik Ibsen 's "A Doll's House" (1905) and starring in "Alice By the Fire" (also 1905), "Mid-Channel" (1910) and "Trelawney of the Wells" (1911) proved her popularity as a warm and charismatic star of American stage. In the meantime she married stockbroker Russell Griswold Colt in 1909 and gave birth to three children while continuing her acting career.

Although the stage was her first love, she did heed the call of the silver screen, and though not achieving the matinée idol image that younger brother John Barrymore garnered in silent movies after similar chemistry on stage, she won over audiences from her first film appearance in The Nightingale (1914). However, her early film roles, steady through 1919, took a back seat to continued stage triumphs: "Declassee" (1919), her impassioned Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" (1922), "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" (1924) and, especially, "The Constant Wife" (1926). She harnessed her considerable talents in the role of an activist as well, being a bedrock supporter of the Actors Equity Association and, in fact, had been a prominent figure in the actors strike of 1919. By 1930 she was entering middle age and her movie roles reflected this. Except for Rasputin and the Empress (1932) with her brothers, the roles were elderly mothers and grandmothers, dowager ladies and spinster aunts.

Perhaps wisely she put off Hollywood for over a decade, with stage work that included her most endearing role in "The Corn is Green" (a tour that lasted from 1940 to 1942). She finally moved to Southern California in 1940. Yet the consummate actress glowed still in the films that came steadily in the mid-'40s and through much of the 1950s. As the mother of Cary Grant in the pensive None But the Lonely Heart (1944) she started off her late film career brilliantly by receiving the Oscar for Best Actress in a supporting role, though she was not satisfied with that effort. Her engaging wit and humanity stood out in even supporting roles, such as, the politically savvy mother of Joseph Cotten in The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and, once again with Cotton, as sympathetic art dealer Miss Spinney, with those eyes, in the haunting screen adaptation of Robert Nathan 's novel Portrait of Jennie (1948). There was also a mingling of some TV work to round out her last movies in the late 1950s.

In 1955 she saw her book "Memories, An Autobiography" see publication. For the enduring legacy she had already begun years before, a theater named for her was dedicated in New York in 1928. When she passed away in 1959, she was interred near her brothers at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography By: William McPeak Spouse (1) ( 14 March 1909 - 6 July 1923) (divorced) (3 children) Trivia (16) The three Barrymore siblings--Ethel, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore --appeared in only one film together: Rasputin and the Empress (1932). A decade after John's demise, Lionel and Ethel appeared in Main Street to Broadway (1953), which incidentally was Lionel's last film. Screen, stage, and television actress. Great-aunt of Drew Barrymore . Turned down a marriage proposal from Winston Churchill because she thought he didn't have much of a future.

Raised Roman Catholic (along with her brothers) after her mother converted under the influence of legendary Polish actress Helena Modjeweska. Ethel was the only sibling to remain devout, and she never remarried after her divorce (divorce being forbidden to Catholics at the time). Daughter of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore; granddaughter of Louisa Drew and stage actor John Drew (1827-1862); niece of Sidney Drew ; cousin of S. Rankin Drew . Aunt of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore . In 1951, she accepted the Oscar for best actress in a leading role on behalf of Judy Holliday , who wasn't present at the awards ceremony. In her most important films her character was often that of a sick woman, sometimes in bed about to die. She and Lionel Barrymore were the first Oscar-winning brother and sister in the acting category. In Italy, she was often dubbed by Giovanna Scotto ( The Spiral Staircase (1946) and The Paradine Case (1947)), Tina Lattanzi ( Pinky (1949)) and Lola Braccini .

She was once dubbed by Wanda Capodaglio in Moonrise (1948). Returned to work one month after giving birth to her son Samuel Colt in order to begin performing in the Broadway production of "Tante". She had a long-standing feud with gossip columnist Walter Winchell , especially after he pointed out that she she had made a not "so hot" screen test at Paramount in 1930 and would not be making any pictures for the studio. Was the 23rd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for None But the Lonely Heart (1944) at The 17th Academy Awards on March 15, 1945. "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen has a short biography of her, focusing on her movie career as a character actress. Personal Quotes (10) [last words] Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons.

The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about--the more you have left when anything happens. We who play, who entertain for a few years, what can we leave that will last? [on Hollywood] The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert. To be a success an actress must have the face of Venus, the brain of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros. Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. [on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

[on gossip columnist Walter Winchell ] It is a sad commentary on American manhood that Walter Winchell is allowed to exist, and the worst of it is, not only is he published here [New York], but his stuff appears all over the country. [About herself and her siblings] We became actors, not because we wanted to go on the stage but because it was the thing we could do best. Salary (5) 'The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family' - latimes YOU ARE HERE: LAT Home → Collections → Families 'The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family' The lives and times of the movie and theater acting family are the subject of a new exhibition at the David L. Wolper Center in USC's Doheny Memorial Library. April 02, 2009 |Susan King The Barrymore Family. John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore pose with members… (University of Southern…) She was acting by the time she was 3 years old. Was there ever a question that Drew Barrymore wouldn't go into the family business? Actually, it's more like a dynasty. Members of her family were performers before the American Revolutionary War.

Her Oscar-winning great-aunt was Ethel Barrymore. Academy Award-winning Lionel Barrymore was her great-uncle. Her grandfather was none other than movie and stage great John Barrymore -- a.k.a. the Great Profile. Her grandmother was Dolores Costello, who had been in movies since she was a child along with her father, Maurice Costello, who was one of the top stars of Vitagraph Pictures in the early part of the 20th century. Even Drew Barrymore's father, John Drew Barrymore, who died in 2004, had a film and TV career. The lives and times of this remarkable family are the subject of a new exhibition, "The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family," in the David L. Wolper Center on the ground floor of the Doheny Memorial Library at USC. The exhibition, which opened to the public Friday and continues through July 31, features rare photographs, posters, letters, drawings and other related memorabilia. In addition to the Barrymores and the Costellos, the exhibition features other branches of the family tree, including the Lanes, the Colts and the Blyths.

The majority of the material comes from the family's archivist, Carol Hoffman, who wrote the 2001 coffee-table book "The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family." Hoffman's now-deceased husband Ralph had been friends with John Drew Barrymore in the 1960s but had lost touch with him until 1981. "At that time he was living in Hollywood," she says of Barrymore, who battled numerous personal demons such alcohol and drug problems over the years. "His mother had died in 1979. John was living with all of this stuff in a small two-bedroom apartment with all the [Barrymore] memorabilia that Dolores had collected over the years, and also Maurice Costello's material." It took Hoffman and her husband a few years to persuade Barrymore to let them help him. "He didn't really trust people," she says. "Yet over the years, he developed this trust in me. I became the family archivist as well." The USC show features some 70 matted photographs with text, plus letters, albums, diaries and magazines.

The treasure trove of photographs came from the original negatives John Drew Barrymore had found in a suitcase in the barn of his mother's Fallbrook avocado ranch. The Cinema Library is supplementing the exhibition with items from USC's Performing Arts Archive, the Samuel Colt Archive and the MGM and Warner Bros. collections. -- Photo Family Tree of Drews, Barrymores, and Costellos — Immortal Ephemera By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments Note: I just kept finding neat images to include in this post so please do be sure to make it down to the "More Drews and Barrymores" section towards the bottom for some of my favorites. I recently split an October 1907 issue of the Burr McIntosh Monthly and was stopped in my tracks by this familiar profile: Not so very far from this, is he? That John Drew up above is actually John Drew, Jr.

(1853-1927), son of actress Louisa Lane (1820-1897), on stage from the age of five herself, and her third husband, popular Irish comedian John Drew (1827-1862): Drew, Jr., was a major star, so successful that he'd eventually be dubbed "The First Gentleman of the American Stage." He was the second born child of Louisa Lane and the elder John Drew. His own daughter, Louise Drew (1882-1954), is pictured below to the right of Marion Lorne in 1909's "The Flower Shop." She would marry the actor Jack Devereaux (1881-1958) just before he went off to war in 1917. But we're getting a generation ahead of ourselves. The first child born to Louisa Lane and John Drew, Sr., Louisa Drew (1852-1888) somehow avoided the stage, but she did however marry an actor, Charles Mendum, and had two children, one of whom, Georgie Drew Mendum became a musical-comedy performer.

Now the third child, Georgiana Drew (1856-1893)-- --followed her elder brother's footsteps to the New York stage in 1876 where she established herself as a popular comedienne. Georgie Drew soon married her Pique co-star, born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe, but by then already known as-- --Maurice Barrymore (1849-1905). Georgiana and Maurice would have three rather famous children, but before we get to them there's the matter of this fellow leftover from that earlier generation: Sidney Drew (1863-1919), whose exact origins appear to be somewhat in question. Appearing on the scene shortly after the death of the first John Drew, matriarch Louisa Lane said she adopted him, but it's also speculated that she actually gave birth to him either by the late John or most likely by another party altogether. Sidney also took to the stage and the screen with his wives, both billed as Mrs. Sidney Drew.

The first, Gladys Rankin (1874-1914), predates my early movie collectibles, but the second, Lucile McVey (1890-1925), shows up quite a bit: Other than that glimpse of John (Barrymore, that is) up above, we haven't even reached the best known of the bunch yet. But I think it's important to remember that all of those folk pictured above were huge stars in their day. Outside of the last couple their fame pre-dates film, but these were the celebrities of the 19th Century. Matriarch Louisa Lane worked with stage stars even better remembered today than she is, actors such as Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson. What's interesting about this group is they seem to have remained somewhat close, working together, even living together. John Kobler, in his, Damned in Paradise: The Life of John Barrymore , writes about Louisa Lane's full house during the period just before John Barrymore's 1882 birth that it: "...had become too populous for comfort when every member of the Barrymore-Drew clan was in town at the same time, what with ...

Maurice and Georgie Barrymore, John Drew ("Uncle Jack"), Sidney Drew ("Uncle Googan") and a platoon of servants" (27, nicknames presumably given by John Barrymore). What a fantastic time it must have been, fame behind them, fame in front of them and even more soon on the horizon. Much is written elsewhere on this site of those three children of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew, so we'll just continue with the photos for now. There was, Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954): Lionel's first wife, Doris Rankin (1880-1946), was actually the younger sister of that first Mrs. Sidney Drew mentioned above. While Lionel was first to the stage younger sister Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) was the first to stardom: And then there's the youngest, John Barrymore (1882-1942), who's shown again here, his most respected period of work already behind him, with his third wife, Dolores Costello (1903-1979), on the cover of Filmjournalen Magazine.

I won't travel any closer to present from John Barrymore and Dolores Costello other than to say this is the line that heads directly to their granddaughter, Drew Barrymore. Let's rewind for a moment though, Dolores Costello and her sister Helene (1906-1957) were child actors during the 1910's: Which is none too surprising considering their parents were both actors as well, mother Mae Costello (1882-1929), and more notably star of stage and screen Maurice Costello (1877-1950): Both Costello girls would return to the screen after adolescence in the 1920's, each earning the distinction of being a WAMPAS Baby Star , though Dolores, first by virtue of her entrance to the Barrymore clan and some plum roles opposite John, and later through an impressive mini-run of character roles in the talkies, would be the brighter and better remembered star. And there you have it, while a little jumbled, hopefully this stands as a somewhat comprehensible Photo Family Tree showing just how all those Drews, Barrymores, and Costellos are linked.

The images of Louisa Lane and John Drew (I) at the top of the post are from 1899's Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew (as are others below). The photo of Georgiana Drew Barrymore come from a larger photo inside the Kobler book mentioned earlier. Maurice Barrymore is from 1896's Famous American Actors of Today by Charles E. L. Wingate. The Louise Drew and Marion Lorne photo is from a 1909 edition of Burr McIntosh Monthly found on Wikipedia. (Note: Wikipedia gives Louise Drew's date of death as 195?--it's actually April 24, 1954 according to the newspapers.) The other images are all vintage collectibles that have passed through my hands, some of which may still be available inside the Immortal Ephemera Store . The collectibles: John Drew from October 1907 Burr McIntosh Monthly; John Barrymore 1920's 5x7 Fan Photo ; Sidney Drew circa 1916 Movie House Handout Card; Mrs.

Sidney Drew 1917 Kromo Gravure Trading Card; Lionel Barrymore 1920's 5x7 Fan Photo; Ethel Barrymore from March 1909 Burr McIntosh Monthly; John Barrymore and Dolores Costello on cover of August 28, 1927 issue of Filmjournalen Magazine from Finland; Dolores & Helene Costello and Maurice Costello shown on 1916 M.J. Moriarty Playing Cards . More Drews and Barrymores Also from 1899's Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew comes this early image of Louisa Lane done by D.C. Johnston, November 3, 1828! Miss Lane, Eight Years of Age, in the Five Characters in "Twelve Precisely" At the other end of the spectrum here's Mrs. John Drew (Louisa Lane), age 76, as Mrs. Malaprop in 1896: Same source, Mr. John Drew (I) as Handy Andy Finally an interesting Sidney Drew item from after his passing. Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, poem by Leonora Speyer.

The above appeared at the front of the Life and Letters of Sidney Rankin Drew , published 1921. Drew's son by his first marriage, Sidney Rankin Drew was an actor himself and according to the second Mrs. Sidney Drew, who edited the book and wrote the preface, was a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps and "the first American actor killed in the World War." Sidney Drew wanted this published very badly, but he died in 1919 leaving the task to his son's stepmother who by this point goes by Lucile McVey Drew. Above, Georgie Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore from 1896's Famous American Actors of Today by Charles E. L. Wingate. And now the earliest shots I could find of Maurice and Georgie's famous children.

First up, Ethel Barrymore, approximately age 16, from inside the pages of Munsey Magazine, sometime in 1895: Next, eldest Lionel at age 25, from a Burr McIntosh Studio photograph printed inside a 1903 issue of Munsey's: Lionel is the Italian organ-grinder in "The Mummy and the Hummingbird" co-starring Uncle John Drew. Finally, from Burr McIntosh Monthly in 1904, "Jack's the Boy for Me," it's John Barrymore, age 22: Share this: 1000+ images about Ethel Barrymore on Pinterest | Philadelphia, Billie burke and The empress Ethel Barrymore, who in private life was Mrs. Russell G. Colt, Jr. and her children: Samuel P. Colt (seven), Ethel Barrymore Colt (four), and John Drew Colt (three).

See More John Barrymore - Biography - IMDb John Barrymore Biography Showing all 70 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trivia (25) | Personal Quotes (22) | Salary (13) Overview (5) 29 May 1942 , Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver) Birth Name 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical family in America, he was also its most acclaimed star. His father was Maurice Blyth (or Blythe; family spellings vary), a stage success under the name 'Maurice Barrymore'. His mother, Georgie Drew, was the daughter of actor John Drew. Although well known in the theatre, Maurice and Georgie were eclipsed by their three children, John, Lionel Barrymore , and Ethel Barrymore , each of whom became legendary stars. John was handsome and roguish.

He made his stage debut at 18 in one of his father's productions, but was much more interested in becoming an artist. Briefly educated at King's College, Wimbledon, and at New York's Art Students League, Barrymore worked as a freelance artist and for a while sketched for the New York Evening Journal. Gradually, though, the draw of his family's profession ensnared him and by 1905 he had given up professional drawing and was touring the country in plays. He survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and in 1909 became a major Broadway star in "The Fortune Hunter." In 1922, Barrymore became his generation's most acclaimed Hamlet, in New York and London. But by this time he had become a frequent player in motion pictures. His screen debut supposedly came in An American Citizen (1914), though records of several lost films indicate he may have made appearances as far back as 1912. He became every bit the star of films that he was on stage, eclipsing his siblings in both arenas.

Though his striking matinee-idol looks had garnered him the nickname "The Great Profile", he often buried them under makeup or distortion in order to create memorable characters of degradation or horror. He was a romantic leading man into the early days of sound films, but his heavy drinking (since boyhood) began to take a toll, and he degenerated quickly into a man old before his time. He made a number of memorable appearances in character roles, but these became over time more memorable for the humiliation of a once-great star than for his gifts. His last few films were broad and distasteful caricatures of himself, though in even the worst, such as Playmates (1941), he could rouse himself to a moving soliloquy from Hamlet. He died in 1942, mourned as much for the loss of his life as for the loss of grace, wit, and brilliance which had characterized his career at its height. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver < jumblejim@prodigy.net> Spouse (4) The three Barrymore siblings appeared in only one film together: Rasputin and the Empress (1932).

Lionel and John appeared without Ethel in Arsène Lupin (1932), Night Flight (1933), Dinner at Eight (1933), and Grand Hotel (1932). His birth certificate lists 14 February as birth date, which conflicts with the family Bible which says 15 February. His World War I draft record and Social Security records state February 15. Rebaptized as a Roman Catholic after his mother's secret conversion, of the Barrymore siblings only Ethel Barrymore remained a devout Catholic. George Bernard Shaw considered his very highly regarded "Hamlet" one of the worst performances of the role he had ever seen, and in a blistering letter accused him of indulging his own ego at the expense of William Shakespeare . Courted showgirl Evelyn Nesbit as her involvement with married architect Stanford White was waning. When she became pregnant Barrymore proposed marriage, but White intervened and arranged for the still-teenaged Miss Nesbit to undergo an operation for "appendicitis." White was later murdered by Nesbit's vengeful husband, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw.

Was a good friend of Errol Flynn , who subsequently played Barrymore in Too Much, Too Soon (1958), a film about Barrymore's daughter Diana Barrymore . His sharp wit never left him, even when he was dying. A priest came to administer the last rites, accompanied by an exceedingly homely nurse. When the priest asked him if he had anything to confess, Barrymore replied, "Yes, Father. I am guilty, at this moment, of having carnal thoughts." "About whom?," replied the shocked priest. "About HER!," he replied, indicating the nurse. The only one of the three Barrymore siblings (John, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore ) to never win or even be nominated for an Academy Award; he is now considered the finest actor of the three. One night, while drunk, he accidentally went into a women's restroom, instead of a men's room, and proceeded to relieve his bladder in a potted plant. A woman standing nearby reminded him that the room was "for ladies exclusively." Turning around, his penis still exposed, Barrymore responded, "So, madam, is this.

But every now and again, I'm compelled to run a little water through it." This incident later made its way, verbatim, into My Favorite Year (1982), where the Barrymore- inspired character of Alan Swann, played by Peter O'Toole , is involved in a similar situation. His 1922 "Hamlet" was the longest-running Broadway production of the play with 101 performances until John Gielgud played the part for 132 performances in 1936. Had a daughter, Dolores Ethel Blyth Barrymore (b. 8 April 1930) with wife Dolores Costello . He was the greatest Hamlet and Richard III of his time, and he is still considered the greatest American actor to play those roles. He was, after John Gielgud , the most acclaimed Hamlet of the 20th century (his realization of the role in London influenced Laurence Olivier 's own later interpretation of Hamlet, in 1937 on stage and in 1948 on film. Ironically, Ethel Barrymore denounced Olivier's film Hamlet, which brought him an Academy Award as Best Actor).

From 1922, when he staged his first Hamlet, until 1975, when Sam Waterston essayed the role, Barrymore and Walter Hampden were the only American actors to play Hamlet on Broadway. Barrymore put on a second production in 1923, while Hampden played the role three times on the Great White Way, in 1918, in 1925 (with Ethel Barrymore as his Ophelia), and in 1929. Stephen Lang , who played the great Dane on the Great White Way in 1992, is the only other American in more than three-quarters of a century to star in "Hamlet" on Broadway. In that time Hamlet was played mostly by British performers, particularly Maurice Evans , an English immigrant who became an American citizen and who was the only other actor other than Hampden since World War I to play Hamlet three times on the Broadway stage.

The other British subjects to play the role on Broadway in that period other than Gielgud were Leslie Howard , Sir Donald Wolfit , future Canadian Stratford Festival founder John Neville , Neville's Old Vic co-star and rival Richard Burton , Nicol Williamson (the definitive portrayal of the late 1960s) and Ralph Fiennes , who won a Tony in the role. French actor Jean-Louis Barrault followed in his countrywoman Sarah Bernhardt 's footsteps and played Hamlet on Broadway (he in 1952, she in 1900). Aside from Barrymore's acclaimed performance, the greatest Hamlet assayed by an American actor was that of Edwin Booth, who played the role three times on Broadway in the 19th century. Barrymore left specific instructions that he be cremated and his ashes be buried next to his parents in the family cemetery in Philadelphia. However, as his brother Lionel Barrymore and sister Ethel Barrymore were Catholic and cremation had not was not sanctioned by the Church, the executors (Lionel and Mervyn LeRoy ) had Barrymore's remains entombed at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles.

In 1980, John Drew Barrymore decided to have his dad cremated, and recruited his son John Blyth Barrymore to help. They removed the casket from its crypt, drove it to the Odd Fellows Cemetery, and made the preparations. John Jr. insisted on having a look inside before they left. After viewing the body, he came out white as a sheet, got in the car and said to his son, "Thank God I'm drunk, I'll never remember it.". After Barrymore's death, his friends - including Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh - gathered at a bar to commiserate on John's passing. Walsh, claiming he was too upset, pretended to go home. Instead, he and two friends went to the funeral home and bribed the caretaker to lend them Barrymore's body. Transporting it to Flynn's house, it was propped up in Errol's favorite living room chair. Flynn arrived and described his reaction in his autobiography: "As I opened the door I pressed the button. The lights went on and - I stared into the face of Barrymore... They hadn't embalmed him yet. I let out a delirious scream...

I went back in, still shaking. I retired to my room upstairs shaken and sober. My heart pounded. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night." In 1920 lived at 134 W. 4th Street in Manhattan. Blue-eyed, brown-haired. Was originally supposed to play Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), but because of the effects of his alcoholism he couldn't remember his lines and was fired. Played by Jack Cassidy in W.C. Fields and Me (1976). Barrymore was Cassidy's idol. Supported his brother Lionel Barrymore when Lionel's wife Irene Fenwick (a long-ago girlfriend of John's) died, and filled in for Lionel as Ebenezer Scrooge in an annual radio production of "A Christmas Carol" on the day after Irene's death (December 25, 1936). For his performance in Beau Brummel (1924) he was given a special self-created award from Rudolph Valentino . Regarding the costume romance films he starred in during the 20s, Barrymore jokingly referred to them as 'male impersonations of Lilyan Tashman.'.

Personal Quotes (22) There are lots of methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. If you stay in front of the movie camera long enough, it will show you not only what you had for breakfast but who your ancestors were. [his feelings about never having been nominated for an Oscar] I think they were afraid I'd show up at the banquet drunk, embarrassing both myself and them. But I wouldn't have, you know. [last words] Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks. I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort. It has been said that every man must properly pay the fiddler. Alas, in my case, it happened that an entire symphony orchestra had to be subsidized. [After throwing a fish at loudly coughing audience members]: Chew on that, you walruses, while the rest of us get on with the libretto!

[on refusing to learn his lines when working in Hollywood]: My memory is full of beauty: Hamlet's soliloquies, the Queen Mab speech, King Magnus' monologue from The AppleCart, most of the Sonnets. Do you expect me to clutter up all that with this horseshit? A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good. You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float. My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today. [on viewing rushes] Oh, I LOVE to see the stuff! If I can do it at the end of the day. First thing in the morning it looks like a bad dream. [To director Tay Garnett ] If you run, they bite you on the ass, Charlie, and if you stand still, they hose you. [After watching Marlene Dietrich perform] She handles her body like Stradivarius used to handle his violins. And no matter what kind of finish it happens to be wearing at the time, it's still a masterpiece.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. Paper napkins never return from the laundry. Nor love from a trip to the law courts. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of the Venus de Milo they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open. [Barrymore on his friend, playwright Edward Sheldon] I'm not sure that he didn't make me a serious actor. [on comparing his role in Sherlock Holmes (1922) to his role in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)] Holmes is a purely static person: by that I mean a character with practically no emotions. It is naturally more difficult to play a man with no emotions than to play a man with emotions, and one must continually vary the character to make it interesting. Salary (13) Ethel Barrymore | Biography and Filmography | 1879 Biography A member of America's multi-generational acting dynasty, Ethel Barrymore established herself as "the first lady of the American stage" prior to following her brothers, Lionel and John, to the land of Hollywood and motion pictures.

After paying her dues with smaller roles on the stages of New York and further honing her craft abroad in the U.K., Barrymore became a bona fide Broadway star with her 1901 performance in "Captain Jinx of the Horse Marines." So popular was she during her heyday, that her good-humored admonition to persistent theater audiences wanting another curtain call - "That's all there is, there isn't any more," became an oft-quoted catchphrase throughout the 1920s and '30s. Barrymore's five-year dalliance with silent films in the late-teens was pushed aside in favor of theater and family. A chance to work with both Lionel and John lured her back in front of cameras for "Rasputin and the Empress" (1932), although not for long. Her final, permanent return to film came 11 years later, at the behest of Cary Grant, with whom she co-starred in "None But the Lonely Heart" (1944).

The role won her an Academy Award and paved the way for more turns, usually as stern but caring maternal figures, in films like "The Spiral Staircase" (1946), "The Paradine Case" (1947) and "Pinky" (1949). Immortalized as the namesake of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Barrymore's legacy lived on with her memorable film roles and the career of great-niece, Drew Barrymore, who carried on the family tradition. Ethel Barrymore (Actress) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Ethel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. related links The New Season; Outlaws, Kings And Comedy NYTimes - Sep 18, 2011 'Dates are subject to change. For more listings: nytimes.com/theater. SEPTEMBER ARIAS WITH A TWIST Drag show, puppet show, fantastical surreal experience â call it what you will. The collaboration between the downtown drag chanteuse Joey Arias and the master puppet maker Basil Twist, which enthralled audiences and critics in 2008, is back.

Mr.' 1552 Broadway Changes Hands New York Post Google News - Aug 22, 2011 'The historic, four-story I. Miller Shoe Building is landmarked to preserve statues of actresses <mark>Ethel Barrymore</mark>, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford and Rosa Ponselle in niches on the second floor, but an addition can be constructed on top' Big Bang's Jim Parsons Nabs Gramercy Park Condo At A Discount The Real Deal New York (Blog) Google News - Aug 17, 2011 'The landmarked building, constructed in 1908, was famously home to John Barrymore (Drew Barrymore&#39;s grandfather), <mark>Ethel Barrymore</mark> and Alfred Ringling of Ringling Brothers Circus. The home was initially listed for $2.28 million last summer,' Andrew Garfield Is Heading To Broadway Shalom Life Google News - Aug 15, 2011 'According to reports, the show will open in the spring at the <mark>Ethel Barrymore</mark> Theatre in New York City.

The 27-year-old star isn&#39;t the only actor from The Social Network who&#39;s hitting the stage; Jesse Eisenberg (who starred as Mark Zuckerberg) will be' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Ethel Barrymore. CHILDHOOD 1879 Birth Born on August 15, 1879. 1884 4 Years Old In 1884 she, her parents and brothers sailed to England and stayed two years. … Read More Maurice had inherited a substantial amount of money from an aunt and decided to exhibit a play and star in some plays at London's Haymarket Theatre. Ethel recalled being frightened on first meeting Oscar Wilde when handing him some cakes and later being reprimanded by her parents for showing fear of Wilde. Read Less 1886 6 Years Old Returning to the U.S. in 1886 her father took her to her first baseball game. … Read More She established a lifelong love of baseball and wanted to be a concert pianist.

The two years in England were the happiest of her childhood years no doubt due to the fact that the Barrymores were more of a nuclear family in London than at any other time when in the United States. Read Less TEENAGE 1893 13 Years Old In the summer of 1893 Barrymore was in the company of her mother, Georgie, who had been ailing from tuberculosis and took a sabbatical for a cure to southern California at Santa Barbara not far from where family friend Helena Modjeska had a retreat. … Read More Georgie did not recover and died in July 1893 a week before her 37th birthday. Essentially Ethel and Lionel's childhood ended when Georgie died and they were forced to go to work still in their teens. John, a few years younger, stayed with their grandmother and other relatives. Read Less 1895 15 Years Old Barrymore's first appearance on Broadway was in 1895, in a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew, Jr., and Maude Adams.

1896 16 Years Old She appeared with Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary. … Read More In 1897 Ethel went with William Gillette to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service. She was about to return to the States with Gillette's troupe when Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette in The Bells. A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Years Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter the Great at the Lyceum, the play having been written by Irving's son, Laurence. Men everywhere were smitten with Ethel, most notably young Winston Churchill, who asked her to marry him. Not wishing to be a politician's wife, she refused. Winston, several years later, married Clementine Hozier, a ravishing beauty who looked very much like Ethel, but Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of her life. Their âromanceâ was their own little secret until his son let the cat out of the bag 63 years after it happened.

Read Less TWENTIES 1901 21 Years Old After her big season in London, Ethel returned to the United States. Charles Frohman cast her first in Catherine and then as Stella de Grex in His Excellency the Governor. After that, Frohman finally gave Ethel the role that would make her a star: Madame Trentoni in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, which opened at the Garrick Theatre on February 4, 1901. … Read More Unbeknownst to Ethel, her father Maurice had witnessed the performance as an audience member and walked up to his daughter, congratulated her and gave her a big hug. It was the first and only time he saw her on stage. When the tour concluded in Boston in June, she had out-drawn two of the most prominent actresses of her day, Mrs.

Patrick Campbell and Minnie Maddern Fiske.<br /><br /> Following her triumph in Captain Jinks, Ethel gave sterling performances in many top-rate productions, and it was in Thomas Raceward's Sunday that she uttered what would be her most famous line, "That's all there is, there isn't any more."<br /><br /> Ethel portrayed Nora in A Doll's House by Ibsen (1905), and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (1922). Read Less 1909 29 Years Old Ethel Barrymore married Russell Griswold Colt (1882â1960), grandnephew of American arms maker Samuel Colt (1814â1862), on March 14, 1909. … Read More The couple had been introduced, according to Barrymore's autobiography, when Colt had strolled by the table where she was having lunch with her uncle, actor John (Uncle Jack) Drew, in Sherry's Restaurant in New York. Read Less THIRTIES

Question: What Hollywood family had/has members Lionel, John, Ethel, and Drew?
Answer: Barrymore