1900'S MOVIE STARS----LIONEL & JOHN BARRYMORE MOVIE STAR CARDS (4)

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MOVIE STAR CARDS
4 LIONEL & JOHN BARRYMORE
MOVIE STAR CARDS
These cards are of LIONEL & JOHN BARRYMORE
Lionel Barrymore
(born
Lionel Herbert Blythe
; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.
He won an
Academy Award for Best Actor
for his performance in
A Free Soul
(1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous
Mr. Potter
in
Frank Capra
's 1946 film
It's a Wonderful Life
.
He is also particularly remembered as
Ebenezer Scrooge
in annual broadcasts of
A Christmas Carol
during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in
MGM's
nine
Dr. Kildare
films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled
The Story of Dr. Kildare
. He was a member of the theatrical
Barrymore family
John Barrymore
(born
John Sidney Blyth
; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the
Drew and Barrymore theatrical families
, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist, but appeared on stage together with his father
Maurice
in 1900, and then his sister
Ethel
the following year. He began his career in 1903 and first gained attention as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama, culminating in productions of
Justice
(1916),
Richard III
(1920) and
Hamlet
(1922); his portrayal of Hamlet led to him being called the "greatest living American tragedian".
After a success as
Hamlet
in London in 1925, Barrymore left the stage for 14 years and instead focused entirely on films. In the
silent film
era, he was well received in such pictures as
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1920),
Sherlock Holmes
(1922) and
The Sea Beast
(1926). During this period, he gained his nickname, the Great Profile. His stage-trained voice proved an asset when
sound films
were introduced, and three of his works,
Grand Hotel
(1932),
Twentieth Century
(1934) and
Midnight
(1939) have been inducted into the
National Film Registry
.
Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much attention before and since his death. He struggled with alcohol abuse from the age of 14, was married and divorced four times, and declared bankruptcy later in life. Much of his later work involved self-parody and the portrayal of drunken has-beens. His obituary in
The Washington Post
observed that "with the passing of the years – and as his private life became more public – he became, despite his genius in the theater, a tabloid character."
[3]
Although film historians have opined that Barrymore's "contribution to the art of cinematic acting began to fade" after the mid-1930s,
[4]
Barrymore's biographer, Martin Norden, considers him to be "perhaps the most influential and idolized actor of his day
This is
LIONEL & JOHN BARRYMORE
The cards are in
NEAR MINT (SEE SCAN)
condition.
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