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Feb 11, 2022 · Diana, daughter of John Barrymore and the blue-blooded writer Blanche Oelrichs (pen name Michael Strange), was a New York City debutante whose determination to follow in her family’s footsteps ...
Birthday: Feb 15, 1882. Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Affectionately referred to as "The Great Profile," the classically handsome actor John Barrymore was more suited for leading ...
John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 15, 1882. His parents, Maurice and Georgiana Barrymore were theater actors, and his siblings, Ethel and Lionel, became successful actors too.
Jul 9, 2009 · July 9, 2009. JOHN BARRYMORE (1882-1942) lives on in the popular imagination as the consummate stage performer, a thespian of the old school armed with an impossibly cultured voice, a gift for ...
Feb 5, 2015 · John Barrymore’s siblings, Lionel and Ethel, both won Oscars in their careers, but most critics are agreed that John was the best actor of the three. Not everyone agreed, however. Playwright George Bernard Shaw detested his ‘Hamlet’, describing it as one of the worst portrayals in history, accusing the actor of indulging his own ego at ...
Jun 5, 2020 · Born to John Drew Barrymore and Ildiko Jaid Mako Barrymore, Drew's mom was only a sometime actress, who became Drew's manager, and used her daughter's fame to have a whirlwind social life that ...
John Drew Barrymore. Actor: The Big Night. American actor with a sporadic career, the son of stage and screen legend John Barrymore. His father and mother, actress Dolores Costello divorced in his infancy and he claimed to remember seeing his father only once. His mother attempted to keep him from the acting life, sending him to St. John's Military Academy and intending that he attend college ...
