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BIRTHDAY
DIED
November 15, 1954

RECENT CREDITS
Main Street to Broadway (FILM)  Aug. 1, 1953
Right Cross (FILM)  Oct. 6, 1950
Key Largo (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1948
It's a Wonderful Life (FILM)  Dec. 25, 1946
You Can't Take It With You (FILM)  Aug. 23, 1938
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BIOGRAPHY
Eldest of the famed Barrymore siblings. Unlike his brother John and sister Ethel, Lionel did very little acting for the theater. He made his stage debut as an infant as part of his parents' (Herbert Blythe/Maurice....
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Eldest of the famed Barrymore siblings. Unlike his brother John and sister Ethel, Lionel did very little acting for the theater. He made his stage debut as an infant as part of his parents' (Herbert Blythe/Maurice Barrymore and Georgia Drew) act and was a leading player by age 22. His first film roles were in D.W. Griffith shorts, beginning with "The Battle" (1911), and he worked primarily with MGM from 1926; he continued to act despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life due to crippling arthritis and a serious leg injury. Barrymore gave one of his finest performances as a dying businessman in "Dinner at Eight" (1933) and is also fondly remembered for "Camille" (1933), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938) and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), among others.

Barrymore was a published author of both fiction and non-fiction, an accomplished painter and a capable film director, earning an Oscar nomination for the 1929 version of the oft-filmed weepie "Madame X".

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Tom Morton
Main Street to Broadway
Released: Aug. 1, 1953

June Allyson
Right Cross
Released: Oct. 6, 1950

Humphrey Bogart
Key Largo
Released: Jan. 1, 1948

James Stewart
It's a Wonderful Life
Released: Dec. 25, 1946

Jean Arthur
You Can't Take It With You
Released: Aug. 23, 1938


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