Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 - June 18, 1959) was a major American actress of the famous Barrymore family; she was the aunt of troubled actor John Drew Barrymore and great-aunt of actress/producer Drew Barrymore.

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Born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was highly regarded as a stage actor in New York City and a major Broadway performer. She was also a strong supporter of the Actors' Equity Association and had a high-profile role in the 1919 strike.

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She made her first motion picture in 1914 and in the 1940s, she moved to Hollywood, California and started working in motion pictures. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1944 film None but the Lonely Heart, but made plain that she was not overly impressed by it. She made such other classic films as Pinky, The Spiral Staircase and Kind Lady.

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She was married to Russell Griswold Colt from 1909 until 1923, when they divorced. As a devout Roman Catholic, she was prohibited from remarrying by the Church. She had 3 children by Colt, including the late actress Ethel Barrymore Miglietta (ne? Colt), who had a brief singing career and appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies", before her untimely death from cancer.

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Ethel Barrymore died from heart disease in 1959 at her home in Hollywood, California two months shy of her 80th birthday. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.

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The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City is named after her.

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Ethel Barrymore related Images and Photos (experimental)

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