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Ethel with her brothers and their mother in 1890. 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".
79 Photos. 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. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company.
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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 was an American stage and film actress whose distinctive style, voice, and wit made her the “first lady” of the American theatre. The daughter of the actors Maurice and Georgiana Drew Barrymore, Ethel made her professional debut in New York City in 1894 in a company headed by her
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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. [1] [2] Reluctant to pursue her parents' career, the loss of financial support following the ...
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Ethel Barrymore's breakthrough came in 1897 during a mounting of William Gillette's "Secret Service" in London when she was asked to take over for the play's lead actress on a moment's notice. Despite her unfamiliarity with the role, the teenaged Barrymore performed admirably.
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.
