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The Spiral Staircase
1946
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Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. [1] [2] Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre".
Ethel Barrymore. Actress: The Spiral Staircase. 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.
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- August 15, 1879
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- June 18, 1959
Ethel Barrymore was a stage and film actress who won an Oscar for her role in None But the Lonely Heart (1944). She was the sister of Lionel and John Barrymore and a great-aunt of Drew Barrymore.
- August 15, 1879
- June 18, 1959
Ethel Barrymore (born Aug. 15, 1879, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died June 18, 1959, Hollywood, Calif.) was an American stage and film actress whose distinctive style, voice, and wit made her the “first lady” of the American theatre. Barrymore, Ethel.
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Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; 1879–1959) was an American actress of stage, screen and radio. She came from a family of actors; she was the middle child of Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and had two brothers, Lionel and John.
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A member of America's multi-generational acting dynasty, Ethel Barrymore established herself as "the first lady of the American stage" prior to following her brothers, Lionel and John, to the land of Hollywood and motion pictures. After paying her dues with smaller roles on the stages of New...
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress known as the First Lady of the American Theater and the last of the "fabulous" Barrymores. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1879, and died in New York City, New York, in 1959. She was the daughter of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore, and the granddaughter of John Drew, the leading tragedian of the 19th-century American stage. She starred in many films and theater roles, such as The Nightingale, The Final Judgment, and A Raisin in the Sun.
