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Ethel Barrymore: Cary Grant
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Ethel Barrymore made her first motion picture in 1914, moved to Hollywood in the 1940s, and won a best supporting Oscar for the 1944 film None But the Lonely Heart, opposite Cary Grant. Edward Steichen took this photograph of Barrymore as she appeared in her role as Ophelia in Walter Hampden's production of Hamlet at the National Theater. This image is an outtake from a series that Steichen shot for the December 1925 Vanity Fair.
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Barrymore returned to the screen after an absence of 12 years to take this role as the mother of a cynical Cockney drifter, played by Cary Grant (AAN). Terminally ill, Ma Mott is destined to die of cancer in a prison hospital, and the respected stage actress played the role with restraint and sympathy. Character actress Laurette Taylor had been Grant's first choice for the part, but Taylor's alcoholism took her out of contention, and Barrymore reluctantly left the stage and signed on. The acclaim she received for this role, plus the lucrative salary, persuaded the aging actress to pursue a film career. She secured three more Academy Award nominations (1946, 1947, and 1949) before her death in 1959.
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In 1944 Ethel won her one and only Oscar for the film None But the Lonely. The setting is in Liverpool and her son is Cary Grant. Ethel has a portrait of herself as a young lady hanging on the wall. Carrying the dialect of a British lad came easy for Grant, yet it was not so easy for Ethel. Because of trials and tribulations in collaboration of her dialect is what earn Ethel her Oscar. It is truly a story of how a family sticks together and does not leave their love ones at a time of need.
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Barrymore devoted herself to a stage career, but she did make occasional films. It was in a 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress, that the three “Fabulous Barrymores” made their only appearance together. Though most of Ethel Barrymore’s films were forgettable, she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1944 for her performance with Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart.
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