Ethel Barrymore received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart.
27 Facts About Ethel Barrymore
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Ethel Barrymore was the sister of actors John and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore and grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.
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Ethel Barrymore was a granddaughter of actress and theater-manager Louisa Lane Drew, and niece of Broadway matinee idol John Drew Jr and early Vitagraph Studios stage and screen star Sidney Drew.
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Ethel Barrymore spent her childhood in Philadelphia and attended Roman Catholic schools there.
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Ethel Barrymore recalled being frightened on first meeting Oscar Wilde when handing him some cakes and later being reprimanded by her parents for showing fear of Wilde.
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Ethel Barrymore established a lifelong love of baseball and wanted to be a concert pianist.
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Ethel Barrymore appeared with Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary.
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In 1897 Ethel Barrymore went with William Gillette to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service.
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Ethel Barrymore was about to return to the States with Gillette's troupe when Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette in The Bells.
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Winston and Ethel Barrymore remained friends until the end of her life.
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Ethel Barrymore portrayed Nora in A Doll's House by Ibsen, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
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Ethel Barrymore, along with friend Marie Dressler, was a strong supporter of the Actors' Equity Association and had a high-profile role in the 1919 strike.
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Ethel Barrymore vowed never to attend another boxing match, though she would later watch boxing on television.
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Ethel Barrymore appeared in her first feature motion picture, The Nightingale, in 1914.
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Ethel Barrymore made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919, most of them for the Metro Pictures studio.
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Ethel Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film None but the Lonely Heart opposite Cary Grant, but made plain that she was not overly impressed by it.
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Ethel Barrymore appeared in The Spiral Staircase directed by Robert Siodmak, The Paradine Case directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for both as well for the 1949 film Pinky.
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Ethel Barrymore played the repressed wife of Charles Laughton's character.
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Ethel Barrymore made a number of television appearances in the 1950s, including one memorable encounter with comedian Jimmy Durante on NBC's All Star Revue on December 1,1951, which is preserved on a kinescope.
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In 1956, she hosted 14 episodes of the TV series Ethel Barrymore Theatre, produced by the DuMont Television Network and presented on the DuMont flagship station WABD just as the network was folding.
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Ethel Barrymore uncovers the photos of Barrymore in the play and childhood photos of actresses Blanche Ring and Rose Stahl.
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Ethel Barrymore married Russell Griswold Colt on March 14,1909.
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Ethel Barrymore did not seek alimony from Colt for herself, but she demanded that his entailed wealth provide for their children.
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Ethel Barrymore died of cardiovascular disease on June 18,1959, at her home in Hollywood, after having lived for many years with a heart condition.
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Ethel Barrymore was less than two months shy of her 80th birthday.
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In 1960, Ethel Barrymore was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star for her contributions to the film industry.
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Ethel Barrymore was a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, along with her brothers, John and Lionel.