Ethel Barrymore 140 years later
Aug 15, 2019 12:02:06 GMT
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Once regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre" with a career spanning six decades.
Though never realy embaracing the movies, she couldn't deny that some extra payment wasn't that bad. She had appeared in silent movies from 1914, but it wasn't until 1944, at the age 65, that she begun having a real Hollywood movie career, a career that would earn her an Oscar and three other nominations, and last until 1957.
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself"
Ethel Barrymore was born 140 years ago in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with no doubt what career she would have since her parents were big theatre stars, just like her brothers Lionel and John, acting on the stage.
She was named after her father's favorite character, Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Newcomes.
She is the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.
Barrymore's first appearance on Broadway was in 1895, in a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew Jr.
After a successful tour of London, she returned to America, and was heavily promoted by theater producer Charles Frohman, she became one of Broadway's biggest and most highly regarded stars of the early 1900s.
Ethel appeared in her first feature motion picture, The Nightingale, in 1914. Members of her family were already in pictures; uncle Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered films in 1911 and John made his first feature in 1913 after having debuted in Lubin short films in 1912.
She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919, most of them for the Metro Pictures studio. Most of these pictures were made on the East Coast, as her Broadway career and children came first. None have survived except for a few reels and fragments held at the George Eastman House.
The Nightingale 1914 was Ethel's movie debut, she was payed $15 000, a hefty sum back then, but that is nothing compared to the $40 000/movie she got payed for the rest of her silent movies between 1915 and 1919.
Rasputin and the Empress 1932 publicity pic, Ethel's sound debut in movies, with her brothers Lionel and John as her co-stars. The siblings had appeared together before in a now lost movie called National Red Cross Pageant 1917.
Ethel was in financial troubles after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, so she couldn't say no to the $57 500 that MGM offered to secure her family's finances.
The Corn Is Green 1940 to 1943 was Ethel's last Broadway success, over 500 performances, before starting her belated Hollywood career at the age of 65.
None but the Lonely 1944, earning an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. With co-stars Cary Grant and Barry Fitzgerald.
The Spiral Staircase 1946, with co-star Dorothy McGuire, a chiller thriller that earned Ehel her second Oscar nomination.
The Paradine Case 1947, Ethel and Ann Todd getting instructions from director Alfred Hitchcock. Ethel's third Oscar nomination.
Portrait of Jennie 1948, her co-stars were Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. A dreamlike fantasy movie.
Pinky 1949, with co-star Ethel Waters. Ethel's fourth and final Oscar nomination. A once sensational race drama.
In 1951 she surpriced TV viewers by appearing together with comedian Jimmy Durante on Four Star Revue. Ethel was no stranger to doing comedy since she had done some on stage and in some of her silent movies.
Kind Lady 1951, a rear leading role, co-starring Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn. Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deadline – U.S.A. 1952, a newspaper drama starring Humphrey Bogart.
Young at Heart 1954, a musical starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.
Johnny Trouble 1957, a rare leading role, co-starring Cecil Kellaway and a young Stuart Whitman. A drama about a troubled son who never came back.
This was Ethel Barrymore's final acting performance in any medium. She passed away two years later at the age of 79, outliving both of her brothers.
The above is only fragments of Ethel Barrymore's career, a career of over 40 movie and television roles.
Autobiography, published for the first time in 1955.
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, oppinions, lists and/or anything Ethel is very welcome!
Though never realy embaracing the movies, she couldn't deny that some extra payment wasn't that bad. She had appeared in silent movies from 1914, but it wasn't until 1944, at the age 65, that she begun having a real Hollywood movie career, a career that would earn her an Oscar and three other nominations, and last until 1957.
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself"
Ethel Barrymore was born 140 years ago in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with no doubt what career she would have since her parents were big theatre stars, just like her brothers Lionel and John, acting on the stage.
She was named after her father's favorite character, Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Newcomes.
She is the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.
Barrymore's first appearance on Broadway was in 1895, in a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew Jr.
After a successful tour of London, she returned to America, and was heavily promoted by theater producer Charles Frohman, she became one of Broadway's biggest and most highly regarded stars of the early 1900s.
Ethel appeared in her first feature motion picture, The Nightingale, in 1914. Members of her family were already in pictures; uncle Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered films in 1911 and John made his first feature in 1913 after having debuted in Lubin short films in 1912.
She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919, most of them for the Metro Pictures studio. Most of these pictures were made on the East Coast, as her Broadway career and children came first. None have survived except for a few reels and fragments held at the George Eastman House.
The Nightingale 1914 was Ethel's movie debut, she was payed $15 000, a hefty sum back then, but that is nothing compared to the $40 000/movie she got payed for the rest of her silent movies between 1915 and 1919.
Rasputin and the Empress 1932 publicity pic, Ethel's sound debut in movies, with her brothers Lionel and John as her co-stars. The siblings had appeared together before in a now lost movie called National Red Cross Pageant 1917.
Ethel was in financial troubles after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, so she couldn't say no to the $57 500 that MGM offered to secure her family's finances.
The Corn Is Green 1940 to 1943 was Ethel's last Broadway success, over 500 performances, before starting her belated Hollywood career at the age of 65.
None but the Lonely 1944, earning an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. With co-stars Cary Grant and Barry Fitzgerald.
The Spiral Staircase 1946, with co-star Dorothy McGuire, a chiller thriller that earned Ehel her second Oscar nomination.
The Paradine Case 1947, Ethel and Ann Todd getting instructions from director Alfred Hitchcock. Ethel's third Oscar nomination.
Portrait of Jennie 1948, her co-stars were Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. A dreamlike fantasy movie.
Pinky 1949, with co-star Ethel Waters. Ethel's fourth and final Oscar nomination. A once sensational race drama.
In 1951 she surpriced TV viewers by appearing together with comedian Jimmy Durante on Four Star Revue. Ethel was no stranger to doing comedy since she had done some on stage and in some of her silent movies.
Kind Lady 1951, a rear leading role, co-starring Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn. Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deadline – U.S.A. 1952, a newspaper drama starring Humphrey Bogart.
Young at Heart 1954, a musical starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.
Johnny Trouble 1957, a rare leading role, co-starring Cecil Kellaway and a young Stuart Whitman. A drama about a troubled son who never came back.
This was Ethel Barrymore's final acting performance in any medium. She passed away two years later at the age of 79, outliving both of her brothers.
The above is only fragments of Ethel Barrymore's career, a career of over 40 movie and television roles.
Autobiography, published for the first time in 1955.
Thanks for watching!
Thoughts, ideas, oppinions, lists and/or anything Ethel is very welcome!
