Biography of Ethel Barrymore

Glamour forever

15 August 1879 18 June 1959 from a famous family of actors, the charming, sophisticated and Kinky Ethel Barrymore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 15 August 1879. Educated in a convent, she's only fifteen years old when, under the guidance of his uncle, salt was first on stage. She plays her first starring on Broadway in "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines", in 1900. The next day is a star and quickly becomes the "first lady" of the American scene, obtaining great success for over forty years, due to its intriguing charm (is coined for her the expression "glamour girl") and its remarkable dramatic temperament. Memorable his portrayal of restless Nora in "a doll's House" by Ibsen (1905); excellent interpreter of Shakespeare's Rosalind in "as you like it", Portia in "the merchant of Venice", and Ophelia in "Hamlet". After his film debut in "The Nightingale" (1914), Ethel Barrymore plays other thirteen films during the ' 10 and later devoted exclusively to the theater until his return on set, as stubbornly stupid czarina, with "Rasputin and the Empress" (Rasputin and the Empress, 1932) by Richard Boleslawski, the only one that is along with his famous brothers, John and Lionel. After having dedicated back to the theater, in 1944 back to big screen to play the mother of a young drifter (played by Cary Grant) in "the rebel" (None But the Lonely Heart, 1944) by Clifford Odets, for which gets a well deserved Oscar. It remains so in film, playing the female version of the typical characters of his brother Lionel, or old ladies from difficult character and bitchy, but generous, in movies like "the spiral staircase" (The Spiral Staircase, 1946) by Robert Siodmak, the Paradine case "(The Paradine Case, 1947) directed by Alfred Hitchcock," portrait of Jennie "(Portrait of Jennie, 1948) by William Dieterle and "you are my destiny" ("Young at Heart", 1954) by Gordon Douglas. Big favorite of Hollywood's most exclusive social circles, Ethel Barrymore is appreciated for his fine sense of humor and his love of baseball, which it proudly embodied in the film "Dream of my twenties" ("Just for You", 1952) by Elliott Nugent. Ethel Barrymore dies in Beverly Hills, California on June 18, 1959; later a Broadway Theatre will be named after his name.
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