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1	Maytime (1937) more movies like this directed by Robert Z. Leonard featuring 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 ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $23.99!
2	Twentieth Century (1934) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring 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 ... see all copies from $5.79! new only from $11.01!
3	Grand Hotel (1932) more movies like this directed by Edmund Goulding featuring 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 ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $14.98!
4	Rasputin and the Empress (1932) more movies like this directed by Richard Boleslawski featuring 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 ... see all copies from $4.11! new only from $37.67!
5	A Bill of Divorcement (1932) more movies like this directed by George Cukor featuring 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 ... see all copies from $6.47!
6	Romeo and Juliet (1936) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.90!
7	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
8	Dinner at Eight (1933) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $9.60! new only from $15.12!
9	Marie Antoinette (1938) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $15.48!
10	Svengali (1931) more movies like this directed by Archie Mayo featuring 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00!
11 view cover	Midnight (1939) more movies like this directed by Mitchell Leisen featuring 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 ... see all copies from $8.13! new only from $11.03!
12 view cover	Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	Eternal Love (1929) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $24.81! new only from $24.81!
14 view cover	State's Attorney (1931) more movies like this directed by George Archainbaud featuring 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 ... see all copies from $27.08!
15 view cover	Spawn of the North (1938) more movies like this 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, ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $15.00!
16 view cover	Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) more movies like this directed by Louis King featuring 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 ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $3.48!
17	The Great Man Votes (1938) more movies like this directed by Garson Kanin featuring 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 ... see all copies from $13.90!
18	World Premiere (1941) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $14.12! new only from $14.12!
19 view cover	Tempest (1928) more movies like this directed by Sam Taylor featuring 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 ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
20	Topaze (1933) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $10.00!
21 view cover	Counsellor-At-Law (1933) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from $23.55! new only from $23.55!
22 view cover	The Beloved Rogue (1927) more movies like this directed by Alan Crosland featuring 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 ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
23 view cover	Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) more movies like this directed by James Hogan featuring 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. ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00!
24 view cover	The Invisible Woman (1940) more movies like this directed by Edward Sutherland featuring 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 ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $15.99!

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