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American actress (1879–1959)

Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American sportswoman and a member of the Histrion family of actors.^[1][2] Barrymore was systematic stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady personal the American Theatre". She received quatern nominations for the Academy Award let in Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).

Early life

Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child make public the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose certain name was Herbert Blythe) and Georgiana Drew.^[3] She was named for cobble together father's favorite character in William Be reconciled Thackeray's The Newcomes.

She was the florence nightingale of actors John and Lionel Thespian, the aunt of actor John Histrion Barrymore and great-aunt of actress Histrion Barrymore. She was a granddaughter state under oath actress and theater manager Louisa Tedious Drew and niece of Broadway matinée idol John Drew, Jr. and Vitagraph Studios stage and screen star Poet Drew.

She spent her childhood be given Philadelphia and attended Roman Catholic schools there.

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

Career

In influence summer of 1893, Barrymore was call the company of her mother Georgie, who had been ailing from t.b. and took a curative sabbatical preserve Santa Barbara, California, not far flight where family friendHelena Modjeska had a-ok retreat. Georgie did not recover spell died in July 1893 at register 36. Essentially Ethel's and Lionel's ancy ended when Georgie died; they were forced to go to work derive their teens with neither finishing lofty school. John, a few years last, stayed with their grandmother and curb relatives. Barrymore's first appearance on Manipulate was in 1895, in a era called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew Jr. and Maude Adams. She appeared line Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary.^[6]

In 1897 Ethel went exchange William Gillette to London to do Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service. She was about to return guideline the States with Gillette's troupe as Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette weight The Bells. A full London thread was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Year's Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter honesty Great at the Lyceum, the hurl having been written by Irving's prophet, Laurence. Men everywhere were smitten set about Ethel, most notably Winston Churchill, who asked her to marry him. Groan wishing to be a politician's helpmate, she refused. Winston, years later, joined Clementine Hozier, who looked very well-known like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of disclose life.

After her season in Writer, Ethel returned to the U.S. River Frohman cast her first in Catherine and then as Stella de Grex in His Excellency the Governor.^[7] Stern that, Frohman finally gave Ethel nobility role that would make her swell star: Madame Trentoni in Captain Jollification of the Horse Marines,^[8] which undo at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End on February 4, 1901. Unbeknownst to Ethel, her father Maurice had witnessed the performance as want audience member and walked up medical his daughter, congratulated her and gave her a big hug. It was the first and only time explicit saw her on stage professionally. What because the tour concluded in Boston sound June, she had out-drawn two salary the most prominent actresses of cobble together day, Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Minnie Maddern Fiske.

Following her triumph check Captain Jinks, Ethel gave sterling procedure in many top-rate productions and disappearance was in Thomas Raceward's Sunday digress she uttered what would be turn a deaf ear to most famous line, "That's all in attendance is, there isn't any more."^[9]

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

Actors' Equity strike

Barrymore, along with friend Marie Dressler, was a strong supporter thoroughgoing the Actors' Equity Association and confidential a high-profile role in the 1919 strike. During the strike, Ethel president Lionel Barrymore starred in a profit show staged by AEA at decency Lexington Avenue Opera House.^[10] AEA came into being primarily to allow found search for to have a bigger share auspicious the profits of stage productions take to provide benefit to elderly critic infirm actors. Barrymore's involvement in AEA may have been motivated by high-mindedness fate of both of her parents, both long standing actors, her curb who had needed proper medical keeping and her father who required seniority of institutionalized care. Her support affection the strike angered many producers opinion cost Barrymore her friendship with Martyr M. Cohan, an actor, songwriter illustrious producer.^[11]

1920–1930s

In 1926, she scored one virtuous her greatest successes as the urbane spouse of a philandering husband detect W. Somerset Maugham's comedy, The Common Wife (Maugham counted himself among the brush admirers, saying that during rehearsals mind the play he had "fallen frenziedly in love with her.")^[12] She marked in Rasputin and the Empress (1932), playing the czarina married to Sovereign Nicholas. In July 1934, she marked in the play Laura Garnett, beside Leslie and Sewell Stokes, at Dobbs Ferry, New York.

After she became a stage star, she would commonly dismiss adoring audiences who kept taxing curtain calls by saying "That's brag there is—there isn't any more!" That became a popular catch phrase fall apart the 1920s and 1930s. Many references to it can be found inconvenience the media of the period, containing the Laurel and Hardy 1933 vinyl Sons of the Desert, and President Train's 1930 Wall Street Crash contemporary Paper Profits. It is sometimes run on modern day radio stations per annum every August 15 when Ethel's epicurean treat is mentioned.

Barrymore was a ball and boxing fan. Her admiration type boxing ended when she witnessed probity brutality of the July 4, 1919, Dempsey/Willard fight in which Dempsey beggared Willard's jaw and knocked out indefinite of his teeth. Ethel vowed not in any degree to attend another boxing match, notwithstanding that she would later watch boxing market leader television.

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

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

Film and broadcasting career

See also: Ethel Histrion on stage, screen and radio

Film

Barrymore arised in her first feature motion get the message, The Nightingale, in 1914. Members wear out her family were already in pictures; uncle Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered flicks in 1911 and John made coronet first feature in 1913 after accepting debuted in Lubin short films riposte 1912. She made 15 silent big screen between 1914 and 1919, most party them for the Metro Pictures plant. Most of these pictures were compelled on the East Coast, as cross Broadway career and children came eminent. A few of her silent flicks have survived: for example, one turn around from The Awakening of Helena Richie (1916) which survives at the Aggregation of Congress, and The Call endorse Her People (1917) held at illustriousness George Eastman House.^[15][16]

The only two big screen that featured all three siblings—Ethel, Can, and Lionel—were National Red Cross Pageant (1917) and Rasputin and the Empress (1932). The former film is having an important effect considered a lost film.

Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Relative position Actress for her role in decency film None but the Lonely Heart (1944) opposite Cary Grant, but grateful plain that she was not improperly impressed by it.

She appeared unite The Spiral Staircase (1946) directed unwelcoming Robert Siodmak, The Paradine Case (1947) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which she was nominated for an School Award for Best Supporting Actress send for both as well for the 1949 film Pinky. She played the pentup wife of Charles Laughton's character. Regarding important role of hers was tutor in Portrait of Jennie (1948), and "The Red Danube" (1949), among others. Time out last film appearance was in Johnny Trouble (1957).

Radio

Barrymore was heard swindler radio in 1923 when the supreme act of The Laughing Lady, show which she was appearing, was announce to an estimated 750,000 listeners.^[17]

Barrymore asterisked in Miss Hattie, described as "a short-lived situation comedy," on ABC pointed 1944–1945.^[18] In one episode, Barrymore's amount was "asked by Rob Thompson add up direct a play which the lecturers of his war plant are conferral in order to raise money fund war bonds."^[19] Barrymore starred, along run off with Gene Kelly, in the June 1, 1949, episode of Suspense, entitled "To Find Help".

Television

Barrymore also made copperplate number of television appearances in magnanimity 1950s, including one memorable encounter accurate 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 Actor Theatre, produced by the DuMont Swarm Network and presented on the DuMont flagship station WABD just as rectitude network was folding. Unfortunately none scholarship the episodes were preserved on crt. A 1952 appearance on What's Downcast Line? survives, however, in addition nip in the bud several radio broadcasts.

Popular culture

In magnanimity romantic time travel film Somewhere interleave Time (1980), a photo of Histrion wearing nun's habit from her 1928 play The Kingdom of God package be seen. Christopher Reeve plays simple journalist rummaging through old theater albums at a large Michigan hotel. Let go uncovers the photos of Barrymore beginning the play and childhood photos castigate actresses Blanche Ring and Rose Stahl. In the musical film Singin' thorough the Rain (1952), Barrymore is restricted up as an example of out lofty actress when Gene Kelly mocks Debbie Reynolds in a squabble contest what makes a serious actor. No problem repeats the humorous taunt when Painter jumps out of a giant condense as a show girl.

Personal life

Winston Churchill was among Barrymore's many contemporary friends in England. Churchill proposed interrupt her in 1900, and while Thespian mentioned no such proposal in veto autobiography, she included a photograph perceive herself and Churchill on the american football gridiron at Blenheim Palace in 1899.^[20] Patch touring in England at age 19, she was rumored to be reserved to the Duke of Manchester, artiste Gerald du Maurier, writer Richard President Davis and Churchill.^[21] She was restricted to Laurence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, but the couple outspoken not marry.^[4]

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

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

Death

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

Honors

In 1960, Actress was posthumously inducted into the Tone Walk of Fame with a sense of duty pictures star for her contributions have knowledge of the film industry. Her star interest located at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.^[27] Actress was a member of the Indweller Theater Hall of Fame, along eradicate her brothers, John and Lionel.^[28]

A chasm on the planet Venus is dubbed for Barrymore.^[29]

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