Ethel Barrymore
American actress (1879-1959) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 79
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore-Drew family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre".
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Johnny TroubleFilm, Katherine Chandler1956
Playhouse 90Series, Herself
EloiseFilm, 1956Herself1954
Climax!Series, Mme. Rosalie La Grange1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Mother
Main Street to BroadwayFilm, 19531952
OmnibusSeries
Deadline - U.S.A.Film, 1952Margaret Garrison1950
What's My Line?Series1949
PinkyFilm, Miss Em1947
Moss RoseFilm, Lady Margaret Drego1946
The Spiral StaircaseFilm, Mrs. Warren1945Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressAward1943
Show-Business at WarFilm1926
Camille: The Fate of a CoquetteFilm, Olympe1919
The DivorceeFilm, Lady Frederick Berolles1917
National Red Cross PageantFilm, Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes1916
The Awakening of Helena RitchieFilm, Helena Richie1914
The NightingaleFilm, Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'1879Born15 August 1879Known for
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That's Entertainment! 1974
Portrait of Jennie 1948
Pinky 1949
The Spiral Staircase 1946
Deadline - U.S.A. 1952
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Frank Reicher Directed An American Widow (1917)
Dore Schary Produced The Spiral Staircase (1946)
John W. Noble Directed The Call of Her People (1917)
David O. Selznick Produced The Paradine Case (1948)- John Sturges Directed Kind Lady and It's a Big Country
Robert Siodmak Directed The Spiral Staircase (1946)- Gottfried Reinhardt Directed The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Edwin Carewe Directed The Final Judgment (1915)
George D. Baker Directed The White Raven and The Lifted Veil
Ben Hecht Wrote The Paradine Case (1948)
Keenan Wynn Also in That Midnight Kiss and Kind Lady
Frank Montgomery Also in The Awakening of Helena Ritchie (1916)
Leonard Carey Also in The Paradine Case and Kind Lady
Ralph Barton Directed Camille (1926)
Ricca Allen Also in The Lifted Veil and Our Mrs. McChesney
Raymond Greenleaf Also in The Secret of Convict Lake and Pinky
Alfred Hitchcock Directed The Paradine Case (1947)
W. Somerset Maugham Also in Camille (1926)
Gregory Peck Also in The Paradine Case and The Great Sinner
John Ford Directed Pinky (1950)
Richard Brooks Directed Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Harry Harvey Also in Deadline - U.S.A. and Night Song
Sol C. Siegel Produced Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
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Correct this familyAlso in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 6
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Ethel with her brothers and their mother in 1890.
Barrymore, 1896
Barrymore in 1901 in one of the costumes from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
Barrymore playing the male character Carrots in a play of the same name, 1902
Time cover, November 10, 1924
Barrymore, c. 1908
THE SHADOWS based on the play Barrymore was starring in, in 1915. This film was never produced but was all set to start filming when producer Charles Frohman died on the Lusitania. Hence the date on this advert is 15 days after Frohman's demise. The Frohman Company owned this story.Awards
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She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).
