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
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore-Drew family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).
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entertainment · American actress (1879–1959) · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Mae Blythe, Ethel Barrymore Colt, Barrymore
Born 15 August 1879 · Died 18 June 1959 · Q230147
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1960· 1 entry
1959· 2 entries
Died 1959-06-18.
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At her home in Hollywood, after having lived for many years with a heart condition
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1956· 1 entry
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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1952· 1 entry
Barrymore appeared as the mystery guest on the CBS quiz show What's My Line
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for None but the Lonely Heart (1945).
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1938· 1 entry
Ethel became the first artistic director of the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland
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1928· 1 entry
The Shuberts opened the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, which operates under that name to the present day
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1926· 1 entry
Scored one of her greatest successes as the sophisticated spouse of a philandering husband in W
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1923· 1 entry
When the first act of The Laughing Lady, in which she was appearing, was broadcast to an estimated 750,000 listeners
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1911· 1 entry
And John made his first feature in 1913 after having debuted in Lubin short films in 1912
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1909· 1 entry
The couple had three children: Samuel Colt (1909–1986), actress and singer Ethel Barrymore Colt (1912–1977), and John Drew Colt (1913–1975).
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1900· 1 entry
And while Barrymore mentioned no such proposal in her autobiography, she included a photograph of herself and Churchill on the lawn at Blenheim Palace in 1899
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1897· 1 entry
Ethel went with William Gillette to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillette's Secret Service
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1895· 1 entry
In a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew Jr
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1886· 1 entry
Her father took her to her first baseball game, which established her lifelong love of baseball
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1884· 1 entry
The family moved to England for two years
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1882· 1 entry
Barrymore married Russell Griswold Colt (1882–1960) on March 14, 1909.
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-08-15.
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