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Maytime
(1937)
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directed by
Robert Z. Leonard
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Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing, Tom Brown
The third of MGM's profitable Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy songfests, Maytime opens in the early 20th century, with a young girl arguing with her boyfriend over her wishes to become an opera singer. The girl's neighbor, a lonely old woman whom we gradually recognize as a convincingly "aged" Jeanette MacDonald, tells the girl of her own career in ...
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Twentieth Century
(1934)
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directed by
Howard Hawks
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John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Etienne Girardot
Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) into leading lady Lily Garland, the toast of Broadway. Once she's ascended to stardom, Mildred/Lily cannot abide Jaffe's obsessive control of her life and career. When he hires a private detective (Edgar Kennedy) to ...
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Grand Hotel
(1932)
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directed by
Edmund Goulding
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Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are ...
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Rasputin and the Empress
(1932)
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directed by
Richard Boleslawski
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John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard
It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous Barrymores -- Ethel, John and Lionel -- appeared together for the only time in Rasputin and the Empress. As for the end result, John offers the subtlest (!) performance as Russian Prince Paul Chegodieff; Lionel throws all caution ...
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A Bill of Divorcement
(1932)
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directed by
George Cukor
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John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher
Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by Clemence Dane, the film is set on the day that Hepburn's mother, Billie Burke, is to divorce her insane and long-institutionalized husband John Barrymore. But Barrymore escapes from the asylum and returns home, only vaguely ...
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Romeo and Juliet
(1936)
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directed by
George Cukor
featuring
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone
Director George Cukor and producer Irving G. Thalberg's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a lavish production of Shakespeare's tale about two star-crossed lovers, is extremely well-produced and acted. In fact, it is so well-done, that it is easy to forget that Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer are too old to be playing the title characters. Stephen ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1920)
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directed by
John S. Robertson
featuring
John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield
In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this one, John Barrymore plays the humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who becomes obsessed with the notion of separating the good and evil impulses within every man. To this end, he develops a potion which unleashes his ...
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Dinner at Eight
(1933)
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directed by
George Cukor
featuring
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke
Based on the Broadway hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, Dinner at Eight is a near-flawless comedy/drama with an all-star cast at the peak of their talents. Social butterfly Mrs. Oliver Jordan (Billie Burke) arranges a dinner party that will benefit the busines of her husband (Lionel Barrymore). Among the invited are a crooked executive ...
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Marie Antoinette
(1938)
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directed by
W.S. Van Dyke
featuring
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut
M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Dauphine, finds herself plopped smack in the ...
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Svengali
(1931)
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directed by
Archie Mayo
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John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare
The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a 1920s silent. In the 1931 talkie, the emphasis shifts from the music student to the teacher, Svengali. John Barrymore gives a scenery-chewing performance as Svengali, who is originally seen tutoring Honori (Carmel Myers). Trilby ...
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Midnight
(1939)
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directed by
Mitchell Leisen
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Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor
Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film merges Brackett and Wilder's early emphasis on repartee and masquerade with ex-costume designer Leisen's flair for high style and sophistication. American Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert ...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
(1937)
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directed by
Louis King
featuring
John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive
In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry longtime fiancée Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) when the girl is kidnapped. The hijackers, Mikhail Valdin (J. Carroll Naish) and his sister, Erena Soldanis (Helen Freeman), are wanted for the murder of an American ...
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Eternal Love
(1929)
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directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
featuring
John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth
Eternal Love was the last silent film of star John Barrymore and director Ernst Lubitsch; thereafter, both men would concentrate exclusively on talkies. Based on Der Konig der Bernina, a novel by Jakob Christopher Beer, the story is set in the Swiss Alps in 1812. Both forced into loveless marriages, sweethearts Marcus (John Barrymore) and Ciglia ...
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State's Attorney
(1931)
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directed by
George Archainbaud
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John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan
John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore decides at long last to go straight, making mincemeat of ...
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Spawn of the North
(1938)
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directed by
Henry Hathaway
featuring
George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore
The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before special effects got its own category. Henry Fonda stars as Jim Kimmerlee, a salmon fisherman in Alaska who has become at odds with a childhood friend, Tyler Dawson (George Raft). While Jim attempts to make an honest living, ...
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
(1937)
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directed by
Louis King
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John Barrymore, Louise Campbell, John Howard, E.E. Clive, Reginald Denny
In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly discovery of a severed hand. Even more startling, attached to the wayward limb is a case filled with hextonite, a new and highly explosive substance desired by the enemy in general and one Draven Nogais (Frank Puglia) in ...
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The Great Man Votes
(1938)
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directed by
Garson Kanin
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John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katherine Alexander, Donald MacBride
Ageing, alcohol-benumbed John Barrymore had one last great performance left in him before his death in 1942, and The Great Man Votes was the ideal vehicle for that performance. Barrymore plays a widowed, once-distinguished professor, lately reduced to being a night watchman. He tries to stay off the "hard stuff" for the sake of his two small ...
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World Premiere
(1941)
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directed by
Ted Tetzlaff
featuring
John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale, Ricardo Cortez
A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames . It is slated to open in Washington, D.C. and he has his press agents working overtime to produce an enormous hoopla of secrecy and publicity stunts. They come up with the plan of hiring a trio of "spies" who are to send disturbing threats ...
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Tempest
(1928)
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directed by
Sam Taylor
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John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fas, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.
One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant circulation), The Tempest is set before, during and after the Russian Revolution. Barrymore plays a Czarist military officer who is haughtily rejected by aristocratic Camilla Horn. She goes so far as to strip Barrymore of his ...
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Topaze
(1933)
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directed by
Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast
featuring
John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, Reginald Mason
Producer David O. Selznick's adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical play Topaze stars John Barrymore, delivering a peerless comedy performance a full year before Howard Hawks allegedly "discovered" Barrymore's comic potential in Twentieth Century. Barrymore plays a French science teacher who is dismissed because he refuses to compromise his ...
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Counsellor-At-Law
(1933)
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directed by
William Wyler
featuring
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Onslow Stevens, Isabel Jewell
Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon (John Barrymore) who finds it's lonely at the top. Simon's wife (Doris Kenyon) and children look down upon him because of his humble upbringings, while his mother reprimands him for turning his back on his heritage. Simon is threatened ...
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The Beloved Rogue
(1927)
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directed by
Alan Crosland
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John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology of all Villon dramatizations (If I Were King, The Vagabond King etc.): To ensure the loyalty of his subjects, crotchety King Louis XI (Conrad Veidt) appoints the waggish Villon king for one day. This proves to be a blessing ...
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
(1938)
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directed by
James Hogan
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John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive
Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role of Inspector Nielsen. Drummond is portrayed by John Howard; once more, he is on the verge of marrying the ever-patient Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell). And yet again, the ceremony is interrupted by a late-breaking crime. ...
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The Invisible Woman
(1940)
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directed by
Edward Sutherland
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Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, Oscar Homolka
Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims strictly for laughs. Virginia Bruce stars as Kitty Carroll, an outspoken department store model fired from her job by tyrannical Mr. Growley (Charles Lane). Intrigued by an ad in the personal columns requesting the services of ...
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