Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

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. When she passed away in 1959, she was interred near her brothers at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

  • Populariteit : 1.113
  • Bekend om : Acting
  • Verjaardag : 1879-08-12
  • Geboorteplaats : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Ethel Barrymore Films

  • 1947
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    De Zaak Paradine

    De Zaak Paradine

    6.2 1947 HD

    Mevrouw Maddalena Paradine wordt gearresteerd wegens moord op haar rijke, blinde echtgenoot. Een jonge, ambitieuze advocaat neemt de zaak op zich....

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  • 1948
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    Portrait of Jennie

    Portrait of Jennie

    7.058 1948 HD

    Eben Adams is een schilder die moeite heeft het hoofd boven water te houden. In het park ontmoet hij een jong meisje dat uit een vorig leven blijkt...

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  • 1946
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    The Spiral Staircase

    The Spiral Staircase

    7.047 1946 HD

    Een vrouw die in een landhuis werkzaam is wordt gewaarschuwd voor een maniak die mensen met handicaps vermoordt. Als ze wil vertrekken is het te...

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  • 1914
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    The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

    1 1914 HD

    Franti, een orgeldraaier uit de arme wijken van New York, heeft een dochter, Isola, die zingt onder de begeleiding van zijn straatpiano.

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  • 1916
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    The Kiss of Hate

    The Kiss of Hate

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Final Judgment

    The Final Judgment

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1916
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    The Awakening of Helena Ritchie

    The Awakening of Helena Ritchie

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1917
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    The White Raven

    The White Raven

    6 1917 HD

    William Baldwin, in zaken geruïneerd door zijn partner, John Blaisdell, smeekt om de hulp van Blaisdell en ontvangt als antwoord een biljet van...

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  • 1917
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    The Greatest Power

    The Greatest Power

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Call of Her People

    The Call of Her People

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Lifted Veil

    The Lifted Veil

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Eternal Mother

    The Eternal Mother

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    National Red Cross Pageant

    National Red Cross Pageant

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    An American Widow

    An American Widow

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1918
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    Our Mrs. McChesney

    Our Mrs. McChesney

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1919
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    The Divorcee

    The Divorcee

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1948
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    Moonrise

    Moonrise

    6.2 1948 HD

    Wanneer de zoon van een veroordeelde moordenaar de openbare schande niet meer kan dragen van het hangen van zijn vader, vlucht hij in een vlaag van...

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  • 1951
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    The Secret of Convict Lake

    The Secret of Convict Lake

    6.5 1951 HD

    Convict Lake, Californië, winter van 1871. De onterecht veroordeelde Jim Canfield ontsnapt met vijf zware criminelen onder leiding van de...

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  • 1949
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    The Red Danube

    The Red Danube

    6.3 1949 HD

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  • 1952
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    Deadline - U.S.A.

    Deadline - U.S.A.

    6.8 1952 HD

    Ed Hutcheson, harde editor van een krant, ontdekt dat de erfgenamen die de krant in handen hebben, de krant verkopen aan een rivaal. Eerst ziet hij...

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  • 1954
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    Young at Heart

    Young at Heart

    5.9 1954 HD

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  • 1932
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    Rasputin and the Empress

    Rasputin and the Empress

    5.3 1932 HD

    Het verhaal van de corrupte, machtsbeluste en manipulatieve invloed van Grigori Rasputin op leden van de Russische keizerlijke familie en anderen, en...

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  • 1947
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    The Farmer's Daughter

    The Farmer's Daughter

    6.9 1947 HD

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  • 1949
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    Pinky

    Pinky

    7.1 1949 HD

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  • 1947
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    Moss Rose

    Moss Rose

    6.4 1947 HD

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  • 1952
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    Just for You

    Just for You

    4.8 1952 HD

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  • 1944
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    None But the Lonely Heart

    None But the Lonely Heart

    6.2 1944 HD

    Wanneer een rondreizende met tegenzin naar huis terugkeert om zijn zieke moeder te helpen haar winkel te runnen, komen ze allebei in de verleiding om...

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  • 1926
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    Camille

    Camille

    4 1926 HD

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  • 1951
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    It's a Big Country

    It's a Big Country

    5.3 1951 HD

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  • 1949
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    That Midnight Kiss

    That Midnight Kiss

    5 1949 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Story of Three Loves

    The Story of Three Loves

    5.5 1953 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Great Sinner

    The Great Sinner

    6.7 1949 HD

    Verfilming van Dostojevski's roman 'De gokker'. Een man wordt heen en weer geslingerd tussen zijn passie voor het spel en de goede bedoelingen van...

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  • 1951
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    Kind Lady

    Kind Lady

    7 1951 HD

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  • 1948
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    Night Song

    Night Song

    6.2 1948 HD

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  • 1957
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    Johnny Trouble

    Johnny Trouble

    4.7 1957 HD

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  • 1953
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    Main Street to Broadway

    Main Street to Broadway

    6.5 1953 HD

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.2 1974 HD

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  • 1917
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    Life's Whirlpool

    Life's Whirlpool

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1956
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    Eloise

    Eloise

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1951
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    Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels

    Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1943
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    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    7 1943 HD

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  • 2014
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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    And the Oscar Goes To...

    6.971 2014 HD

    Deze boeiende film schetst de geschiedenis van de Oscars met clips en interviews uit de oude doos met grote bekendheden zoals Steven Spielberg en...

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  • 1952
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    Omnibus

    Omnibus

    6 1952 HD

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

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  • 1956
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    Playhouse 90

    Playhouse 90

    7.5 1956 HD

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  • 2006
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    Legends

    Legends

    5 2006 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Vier panelleden moeten de bezigheden van de gasten bepalen – en, in het geval van beroemde gasten, geblinddoekt, hun identiteit – door...

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