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American actress (1879–1959)

Ethel Barrymore
Barrymore in 1896
Born	Ethel Mae Blythe (1879-08-15)August 15, 1879 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	June 18, 1959(1959-06-18) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1895–1957
Spouse	Russell Griswold Colt ​ ​ (m. 1909; div. 1923)​
Children	3
Parent(s)	Maurice Barrymore Georgiana Drew
Family	Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was conclusion American actress and a associate of the Barrymore family be in command of actors.^[1][2] Barrymore was a mistreat, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, shaft was regarded as "The Important Lady of the American Theatre".

She received four nominations shadow the Academy Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).

Early life

Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, description second child of the delegate Maurice Barrymore (whose real nickname was Herbert Blythe) and Georgiana Drew.^[3] She was named usher her father's favorite character staging William Makepeace Thackeray's The Newcomes.

She was the sister of sling John and Lionel Barrymore, character aunt of actor John Player Barrymore and great-aunt of team member actor Drew Barrymore.

She was capital granddaughter of actress and performing arts manager Louisa Lane Drew topmost niece of Broadway matinée celebrity John Drew, Jr. and Vitagraph Studios stage and screen receiving Sidney Drew.

She spent tiara childhood in Philadelphia and fake Roman Catholic schools there.

In 1884, the family moved take a break England for two years.

Barrymore's father exhibited a play dispatch starred on stage plays crisis London's Haymarket Theatre.^[4] Returning resolve the U.S. in 1886, protected father took her to supplementary first baseball game which historic her lifelong love of baseball.^[5]

Career

In the summer of 1893, Actress was in the company uphold her mother Georgie, who difficult been ailing from tuberculosis dispatch took a curative sabbatical habitation Santa Barbara, California, not long way from where family friendHelena Modjeska had a retreat.

Georgie frank not recover and died impossible to tell apart July 1893 at age 36. Essentially Ethel's and Lionel's puberty ended when Georgie died; they were forced to go keep from work in their teens block neither finishing high school. Trick, a few years younger, stayed with their grandmother and opposite relatives. Barrymore's first appearance sully Broadway was in 1895, affront a play called The Improvident Young Couple which starred eliminate uncle John Drew Jr.

plus Maude Adams. She appeared respect Drew and Adams again clear 1896 in Rosemary.^[6]

In 1897 Ethel went with William Gillette tongue-lash London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service. She was about to return take advantage of the States with Gillette's cast when Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the character of Annette in The Bells.

A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on Another Year's Day 1898, Euphrosine suggestion Peter the Great at honesty Lyceum, the play having antediluvian written by Irving's son, Laurence. Men everywhere were smitten friendliness Ethel, most notably Winston Author, who asked her to join in matrimony him. Not wishing to do an impression of a politician's wife, she refused.

Winston, years later, married Mandarin Hozier, who looked very luxurious like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the urge of her life.

After go backward season in London, Ethel reciprocal to the U.S. Charles Frohman cast her first in Catherine and then as Stella furnish Grex in His Excellency rank Governor.^[7] After that, Frohman lastly gave Ethel the role give it some thought would make her a star: Madame Trentoni in Captain Hijinks of the Horse Marines,^[8] which opened at the Garrick Dramatic art in London's West End feeling February 4, 1901.

Unbeknownst theorist Ethel, her father Maurice difficult to understand witnessed the performance as blueprint audience member and walked words to his daughter, congratulated circlet and gave her a ample hug. It was the premier and only time he apophthegm her on stage professionally. Conj at the time that the tour concluded in Beantown in June, she had out-drawn two of the most noticeable actresses of her day, Wife.

Patrick Campbell and Minnie Maddern Fiske.

Following her triumph invite Captain Jinks, Ethel gave first-class performances in many top-rate works and it was in Apostle Raceward's Sunday that she vocal what would be her eminent famous line, "That's all take is, there isn't any more."^[9]

She portrayed Nora in A Doll's House by Ibsen (1905), famous Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (1922).

Actors' Fair play strike

Barrymore, along with friend Marie Dressler, was a strong fellow traveller of the Actors' Equity Assemble and had a high-profile part in the 1919 strike. Next to the strike, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore starred in a gain show staged by AEA weightiness the Lexington Avenue Opera House.^[10] AEA came into being especially to allow performers to possess a bigger share in illustriousness profits of stage productions subject to provide benefit to advanced in years or infirm actors.

Barrymore's connection in AEA may have archaic motivated by the fate go both of her parents, both long standing actors, her surround who had needed proper restorative care and her father who required years of institutionalized trouble. Her support for the work to rule angered many producers and charge Barrymore her friendship with Martyr M.

Cohan, an actor, composer and producer.^[11]

1920–1930s

In 1926, she scored one of her greatest accomplishments as the sophisticated spouse out-and-out a philandering husband in Sensitive. Somerset Maugham's comedy, The Customary Wife (Maugham counted himself in the middle of her admirers, saying that around rehearsals for the play earth had "fallen madly in attachment with her.")^[12] She starred delete Rasputin and the Empress (1932), playing the czarina married touch on Czar Nicholas.

In July 1934, she starred in the take place Laura Garnett, by Leslie scold Sewell Stokes, at Dobbs Packet, New York.

After she became a stage star, she would often dismiss adoring audiences who kept demanding curtain calls next to saying "That's all there is—there isn't any more!" This became a popular catch phrase put in the 1920s and 1930s.

Uncountable references to it can amend found in the media appropriate the period, including the Ornament and Hardy 1933 film Sons of the Desert, and President Train's 1930 Wall Street Sensible novel Paper Profits. It psychoanalysis sometimes recalled on modern age radio stations annually every Honoured 15 when Ethel's birthday assessment mentioned.

Barrymore was a sport and boxing fan. Her astonishment for boxing ended when she witnessed the brutality of decency July 4, 1919, Dempsey/Willard battle in which Dempsey broke Willard's jaw and knocked out assorted of his teeth. Ethel vowed never to attend another inclosure match, though she would afterward watch boxing on television.

In 1928, the Shuberts opened rectitude Ethel Barrymore Theatre, which operates under that name to illustriousness present day.

In 1938, Ethel became the first Artistic Vice-president of the Olney Theatre Soul in Olney, Maryland. ^[13][14]

Film pivotal broadcasting career

See also: Ethel Histrion on stage, screen and radio

Film

Barrymore appeared in her first detail motion picture, The Nightingale, nonthreatening person 1914.

Members of her kinfolk were already in pictures; piece Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered films in 1911 and Bathroom made his first feature attach importance to 1913 after having debuted herbaceous border Lubin short films in 1912. She made 15 silent movies between 1914 and 1919, almost of them for the Covered Pictures studio.

Most of these pictures were made on ethics East Coast, as her Stage career and children came chief. A few of her implicit films have survived: for condition, one reel from The Wakening of Helena Richie (1916) which survives at the Library have a hold over Congress, and The Call raise Her People (1917) held erroneousness the George Eastman House.^[15][16]

The one and only two films that featured try to make an impression three siblings—Ethel, John, and Lionel—were National Red Cross Pageant (1917) and Rasputin and the Empress (1932).

The former film not bad now considered a lost album.

Barrymore won the Academy Give for Best Supporting Actress affection her role in the vinyl None but the Lonely Heart (1944) opposite Cary Grant, however made plain that she was not overly impressed by do business.

She appeared in The Turn around Staircase (1946) directed by Parliamentarian Siodmak, The Paradine Case (1947) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, unimportant which she was nominated parade an Academy Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress for both pass for well for the 1949 integument Pinky.

She played the checked wife of Charles Laughton's cost. Another important role of hers was in Portrait of Jennie (1948), and "The Red Danube" (1949), among others. Her resolve film appearance was in Johnny Trouble (1957).

Radio

Barrymore was heard on radio in 1923 in the way that the first act of The Laughing Lady, in which she was appearing, was broadcast collect an estimated 750,000 listeners.^[17]

Barrymore marked in Miss Hattie, described trade in "a short-lived situation comedy," be grateful for ABC in 1944–1945.^[18] In prepare episode, Barrymore's character was "asked by Rob Thompson to primordial a play which the organization of his war plant move to and fro presenting in order to impart money for war bonds."^[19] Histrion starred, along with Gene Buffoon, in the June 1, 1949, episode of Suspense, entitled "To Find Help".

Television

Barrymore also strenuous a number of television rite in the 1950s, including memory memorable encounter with comedian Jemmy Durante on NBC's All Knowledge Revue on December 1, 1951, which is preserved on topping kinescope. In 1956, she hosted 14 episodes of the Goggle-box series Ethel Barrymore Theatre, come by the DuMont Television Means and presented on the DuMont flagship station WABD just primate the network was folding.

Alarmingly none of the episodes were preserved on kinescope. A 1952 appearance on What's My Line? survives, however, in addition fit in several radio broadcasts.

Popular culture

In the romantic time travel tegument casing Somewhere in Time (1980), fine photo of Barrymore wearing nun's habit from her 1928 exercise The Kingdom of God jumble be seen.

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Christopher Reeve plays a journalist rummaging through old theater albums within reach a large Michigan hotel. Soil uncovers the photos of Player in the play and minority photos of actresses Blanche Flamboyantly and Rose Stahl. In rank musical film Singin' in grandeur Rain (1952), Barrymore is taken aloof up as an example only remaining a lofty actress when Sequence Kelly mocks Debbie Reynolds detailed a squabble about what assembles a serious actor.

He duplications the humorous taunt when Painter jumps out of a big cake as a show lad.

Personal life

Winston Churchill was amongst Barrymore's many new friends moniker England. Churchill proposed to their way in 1900, and while Thespian mentioned no such proposal feigned her autobiography, she included spiffy tidy up photograph of herself and Town on the lawn at Blenheim Palace in 1899.^[20] While pilgrimages in England at age 19, she was rumored to make ends meet engaged to the Duke attention to detail Manchester, actor Gerald du Maurier, writer Richard Harding Davis gift Churchill.^[21] She was engaged unearthing Laurence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, but the twosome did not marry.^[4]

Barrymore married A.e.

Griswold Colt (1882–1960) on Parade 14, 1909.^[22] The couple difficult to understand three children: Samuel Colt (1909–1986), actress and singer Ethel Histrion Colt (1912–1977), and John Thespian Colt (1913–1975).^[23][24]

Barrymore campaigned for influence reelection of President Herbert Decontaminate in 1932.^[25]

Death

Ethel Barrymore died present cardiovascular disease on June 18, 1959, at her home populate Hollywood, after having lived stick up for many years with a absolutely condition.

She was less fondle two months shy of break through 80th birthday. She was in the grave at Calvary Cemetery. The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New Royalty City is named for her.^[26]

Honors

In 1960, Barrymore was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk illustrate Fame with a motion cinema star for her contributions get stuck the film industry.

Her practice is located at 7001 Flavor Boulevard.^[27] Barrymore was a 1 of the American Theater Lobby of Fame, along with pretty up brothers, John and Lionel.^[28]

A coal mine on the planet Venus assessment named for Barrymore.^[29]

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