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Barrymore, John

(stage name of John Blythe). Born Feb. 15, 1882, in Philadelphia; died May 29, 1942, in Hollywood. American actor.

Barrymore’s stage career began in 1903 in Chicago. He was the most prominent tragic actor in the USA during the first quarter of the 20th century. Among his best roles were those of Falder in Galsworthy’s Justice (1916), Protasov in Tolstoy’s The Living Corpse (1918), and Richard III in Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name (1920). He was best known for his performance as Hamlet in 1922. In 1913 he began appearing in motion pictures and by the mid-1920’s he no longer appeared on the stage. John Barrymore is the most famous representative of a theatrical family that includes the actors Maurice and Georgiana (his parents), Lionel (his brother), and Ethel (his sister).

REFERENCES

Barrymore, L., and C. Shipp. We Barrymores. London, 1951.
Fowler, G. Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore. New York, 1944.

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Her paternal grandfather, the legendary actor John Barrymore, was an alcoholic who died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1942.

DIAMOND DOGS; INTERVIEW DREW BARRYMORE VOICES A PAMPERED PUP IN HER ... by The Mirror (London, England)

After finishing junior high school in 1925, she reentered films, but remained an obscure blond bombshell type until she got her big break in 1934, opposite John Barrymore in Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century, which—along with Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey (1936), opposite William Powell, to whom she was married in 1931 and from who she was divorced in 1933—opens the Bruce Goldstein selection of Lombard classics and clinkers at the Film Forum.

Carole’s Carol by Andrew Sarris / The New York Observer

Fields, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore and Anthony Quinn, writers Gene Fowler, Will Fowler and Ben Hecht, and artist John Decker.

Hollywood's original rat pack; the bards of Bundy Drive by Reference & Research Book News

Johansen, Frederik Hjalmar

John A. Latsch State Park