Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of t...
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The Paradine Case
As Lady Sophie Horfield
Portrait of Jennie
As Miss Spinney
The Spiral Staircase
As Mrs. Warren
The Nightingale
As Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'
The Final Judgment
As Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell
The Kiss of Hate
As Nadia Turgeneff
The Awakening of Helena Ritchie
As Helena Richie
The White Raven
As Nan Baldwin
The Call of Her People
As Egypt
The Greatest Power
As Miriam Monroe
The Lifted Veil
As Clorinda Gildersleeve
The Eternal Mother
As Maris
An American Widow
As Elizabeth Carter
National Red Cross Pageant
As Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes
Our Mrs. McChesney
As Emma McChesney
The Divorcee
As Lady Frederick Berolles
Moonrise
As Grandma
The Secret of Convict Lake
As Granny
The Red Danube
As Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')
Deadline - U.S.A.
As Margaret Garrison
Young at Heart
As Aunt Jessie Tuttle
Rasputin and the Empress
As Czarina Alexandra
The Farmer's Daughter
As Agatha Morley
Pinky
As Miss Em
Moss Rose
As Lady Margaret Drego
Just for You
As Alida De Bronkhart
None But the Lonely Heart
As Ma Mott
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
As Olympe
It's a Big Country
As Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
That Midnight Kiss
As Abigail Trent Budell
The Story of Three Loves
As Mrs. Hazel Pennicott
The Great Sinner
As Grandmother Ostrovsky
Kind Lady
As Mary Herries
Night Song
As Miss Willey
Johnny Trouble
As Katherine Chandler
Main Street to Broadway
As Self
That's Entertainment!
As (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life's Whirlpool
As Esther Carey
Eloise
As Herself
Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels
Show-Business at War
As Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
As Self (archive footage)
Omnibus
General Electric Theater
As Mother
Climax!
As Mme. Rosalie La Grange
Playhouse 90
As Herself
Legends
As Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited)
What's My Line?
As Self - Mystery Guest