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Movie Is being made - in 1913.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Languages: English
Locations: California, USA
Runtimes: 17
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:304 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:7 June 1913, USA:9 July 1915
In movie played:
Lionel Barrymore (actor)
He was buried a Roman Catholic next to his second wife and his brother, 'John Barrymore (I)' (qv), in Calvary Cemetery, Hollywood., He played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" on the radio annually., The three Barrymore siblings appeared in only one film together: _Rasputin and the Empress (1932)_ (qv). Lionel and John appeared without Ethel in _Arsne Lupin (1932)_ (qv), _Grand Hotel (1932)_ (qv), _Night Flight (1933)_ (qv) and _Dinner at Eight (1933)_ (qv). A decade after John's demise, Lionel and Ethel appeared in _Main Street to Broadway (1953)_ (qv), Lionel's last film., Screen, stage, radio, vaudeville actor, film producer, and screenwriter., Acted from wheelchair from 1938 due to the effects of arthritis and hip injury., Interred at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Main Mausoleum, Block 352., Son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore; grandson of Louisa Drew and stage actor John Drew (1827-62); nephew of 'Sidney Drew' (qv); cousin of 'S. Rankin Drew' (qv). Fathered two daughters: Ethel (1909-1910) and Mary (1916- 1917)., Reared Roman Catholic by their mother, the three Barrymore siblings all had suffered the stigma of divorce (doubtless connected to the family business) and only 'Ethel Barrymore' (qv) was a practicing Catholic in adulthood., Great uncle of 'Drew Barrymore (I)' (qv)., Portrayed Dr. Gillespie on the syndicated radio show "The Story of Dr. Kildare" (1950-1951)., His name appeared in the Looney Toons Cartoon _One Froggy Evening (1955)_ (qv) (directed by 'Chuck Jones (I)' (qv)) in a newspaper on a park bench before the distraught man was sent to a psychiatric ward because the frog would not sing in front of anyone else., Uncle of 'John Drew Barrymore' (qv), 'Diana Barrymore' (qv), 'Samuel Colt' (qv), 'Ethel Colt' (qv), and 'John Drew Colt' (qv)., In the 1960s cartoon series _"Underdog" (1964)_ (qv), Underdog's nemesis, Simon Bar Sinister, has a voice reminiscent of Barrymore., He and his sister 'Ethel Barrymore' (qv) were the first Oscar-winning brother and sister in acting categories., Invented the boom microphone., He was one of the very few screen actors in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s who had a prolific career despite being in a wheelchair. From 1938, his screen roles were written to accommodate his disability., Started as a stock player at the Biograph Company. His first film was _The Paris Hat (1908)_ (qv), which seems to be a lost Biograph film. His second film was _Fighting Blood (1911)_ (qv), produced by the Biograph Company in 1911., In 1930, he lived at 802 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills., In _Rasputin and the Empress (1932)_ (qv), he played Rasputin, allegedly the lover of Czar Nicholas II's wife Alexandra, played by Barrymore's real life sister 'Ethel Barrymore' (qv)., He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1724 Vine Street and for Radio at 1651 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
Pictorials:"Playboy" (USA), November 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 11, pg. 151, by: Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert, "The history of sex in the cinema - Part Six : The thirties - Censorship and the Depression"
Trademarks:Playing grouchy, but usually lovable, elderly men in films, The role of Mr. Potter in _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv)., On radio, the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of "A Christmas Carol". This role led directly to his being cast as Mr. Potter in "It's A Wonderful Life".
Biographical Movies:_"Biography" (1987) {The Barrymores}_ (qv)
Death Notes:Van Nuys, California, USA (heart attack)
Books:Lionel Barrymore, w/'Cameron Shipp' (qv). _We Barrymores._ New York: Grosett & Dunlap, 1951., Margot Peters. _The House of Barrymore._ New York: Alfred Knopf, 1990., James Kotsilibas-Davis. _The Barrymores: The Royal Family in Hollywood._ New York: Crown Publishers, 1981., 'John Barrymore (I)' (qv). _We Three._ 1935., Carol Stein Hoffman. _The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family._ Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
Famed comedian, composer, watercolourist, novelist and chief. His talent stretched to the authoring of the inventive "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" inside accept of resourcefully as his dictation. In 1944, he equally ASCAP, and calm "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon", "Fugue Fantasia", "In Memorium", "Hallowe'en", "Preludium & Fugue", "Elegie in favour of Oboe, Orch.", "Farewell Symphony (1-act opera)", "Elegie (piano pieces)", "Rondo for Piano" and "Scherzo Grotesque".
Height:5' 11"
Quotes:This be the age of deception. The films have the discord in the offing along inwardly the twentieth century, and because they blast out to the hoi polloi in attendance can be no integrity in them. Hollywood is tied mitt and foot to the demands in crutch of artificiality of the masses all ended the world., I've got a lot of ham in me., I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. Why, the fact that he was an actor made everything he said open to question, because acting was thought to be a vocation embraced exclusively by scatter-brains, wastrels and scamps. I don't believed that's true today and I don't think that it ever was., [1943 comment on Margaret O'Brien] If that child had been born in the middle ages, she'd have been burned as a witch.
Birth Notes:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Salary History:_The Tender Hearted Boy (1913)_ (qv)::$15, _Friends (1912)_ (qv)::$10 a day
Other Works:Musical composition: Tone poem "In Memoriam" (1942)., Musical composition: Symphony "Partita" (1944)., Autobiography: "We Barrymores" (1951) (with 'Cameron Shipp' (qv))., Novel: "Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral Tale" (1953)., Novel: "The Shakespeare Club" (1954)., Song "My Prayer" (1942)., Acted in a 1921 Broadway revival of "Macbeth"., Man or Devil (1925). Written by 'Jerome K. Jerome' (qv). Directed by 'Lawrence Marston' (qv). Broadhurst Theatre: 21 May 1925- Jun 1925 (closing date unknown/20 performances). Cast: 'Marion Ballou' (qv) (as "Dame Toelast"), 'Lionel Barrymore' (qv) (as "Nicholas Snyders"), 'Thurlow Bergen' (qv) (as "A Peddler"), 'Egon Brecher' (qv) (as "Pieter Bles"), Ruth Findlay, McKay Morris, Herbert Standing Jr., 'Milton Steifel' (qv) (as "A Barber"), Georgina Tilden, Milano Tilden, Isabelle Winlocke. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert., Acted in a 1925 Broadway production of Franz Adam Beverlein's "Taps" (no relation to the George C. Scott-Timothy Hutton 1981 film)., The Piker (1925). Drama. Written by 'Leon Gordon' (qv) from a story by Oliver Eastwood. Directed by 'Priestly Morrison' (qv). Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: 15 Jan 1925- Feb 1925 (closing date unknown/44 performances). Cast: 'Lionel Barrymore' (qv) (as "Bernie Kaplan"), Alan Brooks, Frank Conroy, 'Robert Cummings (I)' (qv) (as "Fred Cunningham"), Irene Fenwick, James C. Malaidy, Harry E. McKee, Adrienne Morrison, W.A. Norton, Charles Slattery. Produced by 'A.H. Woods' (qv)., Acted in a 1923 Broadway stage production of the original drama "Laugh, Clown, Laugh!"., Acted in a 1921 Broadway stage production of the original tragedy "The Claw"., The Letter of the Law (1920). Drama. Adapted from "La Robe Rouge" by Eugene Brieux. Criterion Theatre: 23 Feb 1920- Jul 1920 (closing date unknown). Cast: 'Lionel Barrymore' (qv) (as "Mouzon"), Ada Boshell, Charles F. Coghlan, 'Clarence Derwent' (qv) (as "La Bouzule"), Charles N. Greene, James P. Hagen, Leona Hogarth, Lionel Hogarth, Maud Hosford, Wallace Jackson, 'Frank Kingdon' (qv) (as "Mondoubleau"), Jacob Kingsberry, Goldwin Patten, Doris Rankin, Zeffie Tilbury, Herbert Vance, 'Josephine Wehn' (qv) (as "Cataliena"), Charles White, 'Russ Whytal' (qv) (as "Vagret"), 'Louis Wolheim' (qv) (as "Bridet"). Produced by John D. Williams., The Jest (1919). Comedy/tragedy. Adapted from the Italian of Sem Benelli; Book adapted by Edward Sheldon. Plymouth Theatre: 19 Sep 1919- 28 Feb 1920 (179 performances). Cast: 'E.J. Ballantine' (qv) (as "Fazio Gianetto's Servant"), 'John Barrymore (I)' (qv) (as "Giannetto Malespini, A Young Painter"), 'Lionel Barrymore' (qv) (as "Neri Chiaramantesi, A Captain of the Mercenaries"), 'Cecil Clovelly' (qv) (as "The Doctor"), Maud Durand, Margaret Fareleigh, Arthur Forrest, Maude Hanaford, Paul Irving, Charles Kennedy, Jacob Kingsberry, W.J. McClure, Martha McGraw, Arthur Rankin, H. Charles Smith, 'Gilda Varesi Archibald' (qv) (as "Fiametta"), Thomas Williams, 'Louis Wolheim' (qv) (as "The Executioner"). Produced by Arthur Hopkins., Acted in a 1918 Broadway stage production of "The Copperhead"., Acted in a 1917 Broadway stage production of "Peter Ibbetson"., Acted in a 1903 Broadway stage production of the comedy "The Other Girl"., Acted in a 1903 Broadway stage production of the melodrama "The Best of Friends"., Acted in a 1901 Broadway production of the farce "The Brixton Burglary"., Acted in a 1900 Broadway production of the drama "Sag Harbor"., Acted in a 1902 Broadway stage production of "The Mummy and the Humming Bird" and a subsequent 1903 Broadway revival of the same play., Acted in a 1901 Broadway stage production of the comedy "The Second in Command".
Birth Name:Blythe, Lionel Herbert
Spouse:'Irene Fenwick' (qv) (14 June 1923 - 24 December 1936) (her death), 'Doris Rankin' (qv) (19 June 1904 - 21 December 1922) (divorced); 1 child
Death Date:15 November 1954
Portrayed:_Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) (TV)_ (qv)
Birth Date:28 April 1878
William J. Butler (actor)
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Birth Notes:Ireland
Death Date:27 January 1927
Birth Date:c. 1860
Christy Cabanne (actor)
Appeared in early 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) films., Cited by historian 'Kevin Brownlow' (qv) as one of the dullest directors of the silent film era., Is portrayed by 'Michael McKean (I)' (qv) in _And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) (TV)_ (qv)
Death Notes:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (heart attack)
Christy Cabanne be, along beside 'Sam Newfield (I)' (qv) and 'William Beaudine' (qv), one of the minus equal prolific director delimited by the times of yore of American films. Graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Cabanne spent several years in the Navy, departure the resource in 1908. He contracted by the cross of a craft in the theater, and become a controller in situate of resourcefully as an thespian. Although acting was his peak of your glory profession, when he at second insolvent into the corroborate conglomerate it was as a director. He aligned the Fine Arts Co., consequently was employed as an collaborator to 'D.W. Griffith' (qv). Being a published journalist, he found himself hired by route of Metro Pictures to compose a serial. After that he formed his individual effectiveness concern, but slam it fluff a few years subsequent and became a director in column of agree to, essentially of low- to medium-budget films for such studios as FBO, Associated Exhibitors, Tiffany and Pathe. Although he work in the rarefied guise at MGM on a few occasion, he was in the main to be found toil away at the degrade hang stirring of lower-level studios. In the 1930s his fortune picked up a ball and he supplant relatively a bit of career at Universal, but from in attendance his career nosedived and he hurt up cranking out hard-up talent westerns, shoddy jungle pictures and pulpy horror films for the like of Monogram, PRC and Screen Guild.
Birth Notes:St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Birth Name:Cabanne, William Christy
Spouse:'Millicent Fisher' (? - ?) (his death); 1 child
Death Date:15 October 1950
Portrayed:_And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) (TV)_ (qv)
Birth Date:16 April 1888
Frank Evans (actor)
Charles Gorman (actor)
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Death Date:25 January 1928
Birth Date:1865
Robert Harron (actor)
Nick Names:Bobby
Death Notes:Manhattan, New York, USA (accidental gunshot wound)
Today blind actor Robert (Bobby) Harron be one of Hollywood's forgotten soul, although he grace whichever of the mute screen's best immortal masterpieces. A shows potential, charismatic personality contained by his hours of daylight, Bobby enjoy everything going all for him but die as okay young at heart to get the longstanding print he emphatically deserve. He be born in New York City to an flat broke Irish-American interaction. In instruct to freeze silage against the table, Bobby started out fairly young look for carry out. At age 13 he found a first in use for the American Biograph Studio on East 14th Street via manner of a courier boy and was given a twosome of showing bit for added model. Within the subsequent year superintendent 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) had amalgamated the relatives and the moody, photogenic Bobby caught the fabulous director's eye almost directly. Bobby subsequently had initial role in tons of Griffith's classic silents, universally playing characters that be appreciably younger and much more unrealistic. He appear divergent other legendary feminine star who also play "young-ish" roles, disgracefully 'Mae Marsh' (qv) and 'Lillian Gish' (qv). Bobby made indelible impressions in _The Birth of a Nation (1915)_ (qv), _Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)_ (qv), _An Old Fashioned Young Man (1917)_ (qv), _Hearts of the World (1918)_ (qv), _A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)_ (qv) and _True Heart Susie (1919)_ (qv). Bobby had become such a sensation that in 1920 he entertain opinion in the order of departing the Griffith assemble and form his fastidious company. A vicious, self-inflicted shotgun armour cut to the disappeared lung in September of 1920 terminated those dreams before they ever get stale the terra firma. Although it was planned as an "accidental" extermination, Hollywood rumor have it that a despondent Bobby kill himself in a New York hotel breathing universe on the eve of the premiere of Griffith's hot film _Way Down East (1920)_ (qv). It seem Bobby was traumatized after anyone passed ended by Griffith for the head role in favor of the director's new protg, 'Richard Barthelmess' (qv). Whatever the evidence may be, Bobby's death silt a tragic crime innovative. Ironically, Bobby had two substandard particular sibling actor who also died quite young. 'Tessie Harron' (qv) (1896-1918) died at age 22 of Spanish respiratory tract infection, and 'John Harron' (qv) (1903-1939), nickname Johnnie, suffer a fatal heart attack at age 36. Both appeared unbilled in _Hearts of the World (1918)_ (qv) next to Bobby.
Adolph Lestina (actor)
Joseph McDermott (actor)
W. Chrystie Miller (actor)
Frank Opperman (actor)
Alfred Paget (actor)
Lillian Gish (actress)
Mae Marsh (actress)
Christy Cabanne (writer)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
D.W. Griffith (director)
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