Lionel Barrymore

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Stage career

Barrymore and his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew appeared together on tour and in a stage production of The Rivals at the age of 15. "I didn't want to act," he later confessed. I wanted to paint or draw. The theater was not in my blood, but I was connected to the theater by marriage only; it was simply a piece of in-law of mine that I had to live with." Nevertheless, he soon found success on stage and then began to perform, but he also wanted to be a painter and also compose music. In such plays as The Second in Command (1901) and The Mummy and the Hummingbird (1902), the former of which received critical acclaim, he appeared on Broadway in his early twenties with his uncle John Drew Jr. Both were directed by Charles Frohman, who produced other plays for Barrymore and his siblings, John and Ethel. Barrymore's Other Girl, 1903–2004, was a long-running success. He appeared in a pantomime in 1905, starring John and Ethel as the title character in Pantaloon and another in the other half of the bill, Alice Sit-by-Fire.

Barrymore and his first wife, actress Doris Rankin, left their stage careers and followed Paris, where he trained as an artist, in 1906. In 1908, Lionel and Doris were in Paris, where their first child, Ethel, was born. Lionel also states that he and Doris were in France when Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909. He did not succeed as a painter, but he returned to the United States in 1909 as a painter. He returned to the stage in The Fires of Fate in Chicago in December of that year, but he had to leave the show later that month after suffering a nervous breakdown about the impending New York opening. Appendicitis was the reason for his abrupt departure, according to the producers. Nonetheless, he returned to Broadway in 1910 in The Jail Bird, and continued his stage career with several more plays. He also performed with his family band, 1910-1920, where he was content not to worry as much about memorizing lines.

Barrymore stayed away from film from 1912 to 1917, but after the First World War, he had several successes on Broadway, where he established himself as a dramatic and character actor, often touring with his wife. He and his brother John appeared in Peter Ibbetson (1917) and achieved lead billing in The Copperhead (1918) (with Doris). In films such as The Jest (1919) (again with John) and The Letter of the Law (1920), he retained star billing for the next six years. Lionel gave a short run as MacBeth in 1921, opposite veteran actress Julia Arthur as Lady MacBeth, but the performance was met with skepticism. He performed in Laugh, Clown, Laugh in 1923 with his second wife, Irene Fenwick; the two married in The Claw together in 1923, and after falling in love, he divorced his first wife, Irene Fenwick; they met while performing together in The Claw the previous year; afterwards, he divorced his first wife, who died in love; In 1925, he received no notices in three productions in a row. He appeared in Man or Devil in 1926 and died offstage in 1927 after he first appeared in MGM, but never appeared on stage again until 1927.

Film career

Barrymore joined Biograph Studios in 1909 and rose to prominence in leading roles in D. W. Griffith's films by 1911. The Battle (1911) Barrymore made the Battle (1911); The New York Hat (1912) The New York Hat (1912), Friends, and Three Friends (1913). In 1915, he co-starred with Lillian Russell in a film called Wildfire, one of Russell's few film appearances. At Biograph, he was also involved in writing and directing. Life's Whirlpool, his uncle's last silent film directed by him, starred Ethel. He appeared in more than 60 silent films with Griffith.

Barrymore played Barrymore in the film version of The Copperhead in 1920. He appeared in The Master Mind's lead role in 1920, alongside Gypsy O'Brien co-starring.

Barrymore had a good relationship with Louis B. Mayer before the establishment of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924. Several of his silent Metro items survived, but some were lost, while others were lost. Barrymore and Fenwick shot The Eternal City in Rome in 1923, combining film with their honeymoon. He used to freelance, relocating from Griffith in 1924 to film America. He travelled to Germany to film Anglo-German co-production Decameron Nights, directed by Herbert Wilcox of Britain, shot at Babelsberg studios outside of Berlin in 1924. In 1925, he left New York for Hollywood. Frederick Harmon appeared in director Henri Diamant-Berger's drama Fifty-Fifty (1925) opposite Hope Hampton and Louise Glaum, as well as several more freelance motion pictures, including The Bells (Chadwick Pictures, 1926) with a then-unknown Boris Karloff. Drums of Love, 1928, was Griffith's last film for him.

Barrymore and his brother John were embroiled in a controversy over Irene's chastity after she became one of John's lovers prior to his marriage to Irene. The brothers didn't speak again for two years and weren't together for the first time until 1926's film Don Juan, which by then they had patched up their differences. Barrymore became a member of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1926, and the Barrier was his first picture. The Lion and the Mouse was his first talking picture; his stage experience aided him to excel in delivering the dialogue in sound films.

Barrymore had a huge success with Gloria Swanson in 1928's Sadie Thompson and the aforementioned Griffith film, Drums of Love. In 1929, he returned to filmmaking. He directed His Glorious Night, with John Gilbert; Madame X, starring Ruth Chatterton; and The Rogue Song, Laurel and Hardy's first color film during this early and difficult sound film period. He was credited with being the first director to move a microphone on a sound stage. In 1931, Barrymore returned to acting in front of the camera. After being nominated in 1930 for Best Director for Madame X, he received an Academy Award for his work as an alcoholic lawyer in A Free Soul (1931). In the 1931 film "Mata Hari," Greta Garbo appeared alongside Greta Garbo. He could play several characters, including the evil Rasputin in the 1932 Rasputin and the Empress (in which he co-starred with siblings John and Ethel) and the ailing Oliver Jordan in Dinner at Eight (1933), together with John (who had no scenes together). In the classic horror Mark of the Vampire (1935), he played Professor Zelen, the Occultist specialist.

He became popular and sweet elderly man in films such as The Mysterious Island (1929), Little Colonel (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1940), and Key Largo (1948).

He played irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare movies in the 1930s and 1940s, a role he replayed in an MGM radio series that debuted in New York in 1950 and was later syndicated. Barrymore had broken his hip and played Gillespie in a wheelchair, so he took on Gillespie in a wheelchair. His deteriorating arthritis kept him in the chair later. Since being injured, Barrymore's appearance in the 1938 MGM film version of A Christmas Carol, was also barred, but he appeared on the radio from 1934 to 1953. He appeared in the 1940s radio series Mayor of the Town, as the town's chief.

Mr. Potter, the ostensibly and generous banker in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) opposite James Stewart, is well-known for his role as Mr. Potter.

In 1952, Clark Gable appeared in Lone Star, and he starred. His last film appearance was a cameo in Main Street to Broadway, an MGM musical comedy that was released in 1953. In the film, his sister Ethel appeared as well.

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