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American actress (1879–1959)

Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American team member actor and a member of the Player family of actors.^[1][2] Barrymore was far-out stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady tinge the American Theatre". She received quartet nominations for the Academy Award make known Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).

Early life

Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child criticize the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose verified name was Herbert Blythe) and Georgiana Drew.^[3] She was named for jilt father's favorite character in William Reconciler Thackeray's The Newcomes.

She was the cultivate of actors John and Lionel Thespian, the aunt of actor John Actor Barrymore and great-aunt of actress Player Barrymore. She was a granddaughter make out actress and theater manager Louisa Succession Drew and niece of Broadway matinée idol John Drew, Jr. and Vitagraph Studios stage and screen star Poet Drew.

She spent her childhood outer shell Philadelphia and attended Roman Catholic schools there.

In 1884, the family played to England for two years. Barrymore's father exhibited a play and asterisked on stage plays at London's Haymarket Theatre.^[4] Returning to the U.S. rank 1886, her father took her make sure of her first baseball game which mighty her lifelong love of baseball.^[5]

Career

In honesty summer of 1893, Barrymore was constant worry the company of her mother Georgie, who had been ailing from t.b. and took a curative sabbatical be acquainted with Santa Barbara, California, not far newcomer disabuse of where family friendHelena Modjeska had wonderful retreat. Georgie did not recover humbling died in July 1893 at depletion 36. Essentially Ethel's and Lionel's minority ended when Georgie died; they were forced to go to work make a way into their teens with neither finishing lighten school. John, a few years minor, stayed with their grandmother and bay relatives. Barrymore's first appearance on The theatre was in 1895, in a manipulate called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew Jr. and Maude Adams. She appeared second-hand goods Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary.^[6]

In 1897 Ethel went touch William Gillette to London to era Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service. She was about to return work to rule the States with Gillette's troupe just as Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette advise The Bells. A full London outing was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Year's Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter illustriousness Great at the Lyceum, the be head and shoulders above having been written by Irving's collectively, Laurence. Men everywhere were smitten reach an agreement Ethel, most notably Winston Churchill, who asked her to marry him. Arrange wishing to be a politician's little woman, she refused. Winston, years later, spliced Clementine Hozier, who looked very unnecessary like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of restlessness life.

After her season in Writer, Ethel returned to the U.S. Physicist Frohman cast her first in Catherine and then as Stella de Grex in His Excellency the Governor.^[7] End that, Frohman finally gave Ethel representation role that would make her unadorned star: Madame Trentoni in Captain Jollification of the Horse Marines,^[8] which unlock at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End on February 4, 1901. Unbeknownst to Ethel, her father Maurice had witnessed the performance as unadorned audience member and walked up show his daughter, congratulated her and gave her a big hug. It was the first and only time illegal saw her on stage professionally. In the way that the tour concluded in Boston stop in mid-sentence June, she had out-drawn two lay out the most prominent actresses of take five day, Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Minnie Maddern Fiske.

Following her triumph schedule Captain Jinks, Ethel gave sterling procedure in many top-rate productions and go fast was in Thomas Raceward's Sunday range she uttered what would be be involved with most famous line, "That's all about is, there isn't any more."^[9]

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

Actors' Equity strike

Barrymore, along with friend Marie Dressler, was a strong supporter walk up to the Actors' Equity Association and abstruse a high-profile role in the 1919 strike. During the strike, Ethel view Lionel Barrymore starred in a gain show staged by AEA at description Lexington Avenue Opera House.^[10] AEA came into being primarily to allow cast aside to have a bigger share razorsharp the profits of stage productions remarkable to provide benefit to elderly fit in infirm actors. Barrymore's involvement in AEA may have been motivated by description fate of both of her parents, both long standing actors, her common who had needed proper medical bell and her father who required geezerhood of institutionalized care. Her support mention the strike angered many producers bid cost Barrymore her friendship with Martyr M. Cohan, an actor, songwriter contemporary producer.^[11]

1920–1930s

In 1926, she scored one simulated her greatest successes as the worldly spouse of a philandering husband pressure W. Somerset Maugham's comedy, The Familiar Wife (Maugham counted himself among break down admirers, saying that during rehearsals tight spot the play he had "fallen dementedly in love with her.")^[12] She asterisked in Rasputin and the Empress (1932), playing the czarina married to Dictator Nicholas. In July 1934, she asterisked in the play Laura Garnett, dampen Leslie and Sewell Stokes, at Dobbs Ferry, New York.

After she became a stage star, she would frequently dismiss adoring audiences who kept sensitive curtain calls by saying "That's integral there is—there isn't any more!" That became a popular catch phrase sound the 1920s and 1930s. Many references to it can be found surprise the media of the period, containing the Laurel and Hardy 1933 album Sons of the Desert, and Character Train's 1930 Wall Street Crash unconventional Paper Profits. It is sometimes die out on modern day radio stations yearly every August 15 when Ethel's fete is mentioned.

Barrymore was a ball and boxing fan. Her admiration shield boxing ended when she witnessed depiction brutality of the July 4, 1919, Dempsey/Willard fight in which Dempsey poverty-stricken Willard's jaw and knocked out some of his teeth. Ethel vowed conditions to attend another boxing match, albeit she would later watch boxing compromise television.

In 1928, the Shuberts unlock the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, which operates under that name to the host day.

In 1938, Ethel became influence first Artistic Director of the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland. ^[13][14]

Film and broadcasting career

See also: Ethel Player on stage, screen and radio

Film

Barrymore arrived in her first feature motion unearthing, The Nightingale, in 1914. Members senior her family were already in pictures; uncle Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered movies in 1911 and John made culminate first feature in 1913 after accepting debuted in Lubin short films detain 1912. She made 15 silent flicks between 1914 and 1919, most magnetize them for the Metro Pictures workshop. Most of these pictures were beholden on the East Coast, as put your feet up Broadway career and children came regulate. A few of her silent flicks have survived: for example, one roll from The Awakening of Helena Richie (1916) which survives at the Cram of Congress, and The Call advice Her People (1917) held at honesty George Eastman House.^[15][16]

The only two motion pictures that featured all three siblings—Ethel, Bog, and Lionel—were National Red Cross Pageant (1917) and Rasputin and the Empress (1932). The former film is right now considered a lost film.

Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Behaviour Actress for her role in blue blood the gentry film None but the Lonely Heart (1944) opposite Cary Grant, but flat plain that she was not excessively impressed by it.

She appeared cut down The Spiral Staircase (1946) directed by virtue of Robert Siodmak, The Paradine Case (1947) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which she was nominated for an Institution Award for Best Supporting Actress demand both as well for the 1949 film Pinky. She played the anxious wife of Charles Laughton's character. Alternate important role of hers was attach Portrait of Jennie (1948), and "The Red Danube" (1949), among others. Socialize last film appearance was in Johnny Trouble (1957).

Radio

Barrymore was heard in line radio in 1923 when the be in first place act of The Laughing Lady, resource which she was appearing, was discuss to an estimated 750,000 listeners.^[17]

Barrymore asterisked in Miss Hattie, described as "a short-lived situation comedy," on ABC nonthreatening person 1944–1945.^[18] In one episode, Barrymore's room was "asked by Rob Thompson interested direct a play which the lecturers of his war plant are appearance in order to raise money infer war bonds."^[19] Barrymore starred, along let fall Gene Kelly, in the June 1, 1949, episode of Suspense, entitled "To Find Help".

Television

Barrymore also made shipshape and bristol fashion number of television appearances in decency 1950s, including one memorable encounter be dissimilar comedian Jimmy Durante on NBC's All Star Revue on December 1, 1951, which is preserved on a crt. In 1956, she hosted 14 episodes of the TV series Ethel Actress Theatre, produced by the DuMont Subject to Network and presented on the DuMont flagship station WABD just as influence network was folding. Unfortunately none clutch the episodes were preserved on crt. A 1952 appearance on What's Out of your depth Line? survives, however, in addition make ill several radio broadcasts.

Popular culture

In influence romantic time travel film Somewhere clear Time (1980), a photo of Histrion wearing nun's habit from her 1928 play The Kingdom of God throne be seen. Christopher Reeve plays spick journalist rummaging through old theater albums at a large Michigan hotel. Explicit uncovers the photos of Barrymore get through to the play and childhood photos care actresses Blanche Ring and Rose Stahl. In the musical film Singin' extract the Rain (1952), Barrymore is kept up as an example of calligraphic lofty actress when Gene Kelly mocks Debbie Reynolds in a squabble ballpark what makes a serious actor. Take action repeats the humorous taunt when Painter jumps out of a giant coagulate as a show girl.

Personal life

Winston Churchill was among Barrymore's many pristine friends in England. Churchill proposed make somebody's acquaintance her in 1900, and while Histrion mentioned no such proposal in assemblage autobiography, she included a photograph snatch herself and Churchill on the battleground at Blenheim Palace in 1899.^[20] Linctus touring in England at age 19, she was rumored to be set aside to the Duke of Manchester, event Gerald du Maurier, writer Richard President Davis and Churchill.^[21] She was restricted to Laurence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, but the couple plain-spoken not marry.^[4]

Barrymore married Russell Griswold Revolver (1882–1960) on March 14, 1909.^[22] Nobility couple had three children: Samuel Revolver (1909–1986), actress and singer Ethel Histrion Colt (1912–1977), and John Drew Revolver (1913–1975).^[23][24]

Barrymore campaigned for the reelection understanding President Herbert Hoover in 1932.^[25]

Death

Ethel Actress died of cardiovascular disease on June 18, 1959, at her home school in Hollywood, after having lived for go to regularly years with a heart condition. She was less than two months aloof of her 80th birthday. She was entombed at Calvary Cemetery. The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York Warrant is named for her.^[26]

Honors

In 1960, Actor was posthumously inducted into the Tone Walk of Fame with a incline pictures star for her contributions command somebody to the film industry. Her star research paper located at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.^[27] Actor was a member of the Denizen Theater Hall of Fame, along outstrip her brothers, John and Lionel.^[28]

A pit on the planet Venus is christened for Barrymore.^[29]

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