The Spiral Staircase
1946
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She soon found success, particularly after an invitation from William Gillette to appear on stage in his 1897 London production of Secret Service. Barrymore was soon popular with English society, and she had a number of romantic suitors, including Laurence Irving, the dramatist.
Barrymore, Ethel. Ethel Barrymore (left) and Esther Mitchell in the stage production of The Corn Is Green, early 1940s. (more) Barrymore’s notable plays included Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire (1905), Mid-Channel (1910), Trelawny of the “Wells” (1911), Déclassée (1919), The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1924), The Constant Wife (1928), Scarlet Sister ...
Red Danube, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Marshal Stalin Wants Her All the key MGM players, Louis Calhern the Soviet officer hunting ballerina Olga (a.k.a Maria, Janet Leigh), her identity not previously known to Brit Col. Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon), Peter Lawford his smitten aide, Ethel Barrymore the abbess hiding her in a Vienna convent, in The ...
Born in England, Louisa had first appeared on the stage at the tender age of 12 months ("I played a crying baby," she would drily remark), moved to Philadelphia, married John Drew, and eventually managed that city's most famous theater of the time, The Arch.
She finally moved to Southern California in 1940. When she passed away in 1959, she was interred near her brothers at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana.
Daily Mirror: 200 Attend Last Rites for Ethel Barrymore; More stars in... Family Business; Oscar Winners
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 241 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adam styles for the Shubert family.The theater, named in honor of actress Ethel Barrymore, has 1,058 seats and is operated by the Shubert Organization.
