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Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew. She spent her childhood in Philadelphia, and attended Roman Catholic schools there.
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A third-generation member of America's most distinguished theatrical family, Ethel Barrymore had her first starring lead in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, which opened on Broadway in 1901. Critics did not think much of the play. They loved Barrymore... and over the next several years, her commanding presence and beauty made her one of the most idolized actresses of the day. Ultimately Barrymore's career spanned more than six decades and included work in radio, film, and television. Of all her performances, perhaps the most memorable was her stage portrayal in the early 1940s of a middle-aged spinster in The Corn Is Green.
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Born into a long-established American theatrical family, Ethel Barrymore dreamed of being a concert pianist, but found that acting was virtually the only profession for which she was truly qualified - and which ensured a livable income. Ethel's first Broadway hit was Clyde Fitch's 1901 play Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, in the role of a supercilious woman of wealth. Ethel received glamorous roles, usually comic in nature, specially written for her. Ethel was intrigued at the notion of working with her celebrated brothers John and Lionel Barrymore, but the film vehicle chosen by MGM, Rasputin and the Empress (1932), showed only Lionel to advantage. After ten years of unsuccessful plays - excepting a "comeback" in the 1940 hit The Corn is Green. Ethel accepted Cary Grant's personal invitation to play Grant's mother in None But the Lonely Heart (1944), for which she was nominated and won an Oscar.
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Lionel's sister, Ethel Barrymore, 1879-1959, b. Philadelphia... began her career under the auspices of her relatives. After an engagement with Henry Irving in London she returned to New York City, where, under the Frohman banner, she appeared in Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (1901) and achieved instant success. Although her original desire was to become a concert pianist, she made the theater her home and gained a reputation as an actress of dignity and warmth. Her most endearing portrayal was in The Corn Is Green (1940-42). Her work in films was limited, although in 1944 she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in None But the Lonely Heart. A theater bearing her name was opened in 1928 in New York City.
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Known as “the first lady of the American theater,” Ethel Barrymore was born in PhiladelÂphia, slightly east of her Primary Saturn line, which sets over western Pennsylvania. Her first professional success occurred in London, where she appeared in The Bells and Peter the Great (1897-98). As we can see on Barrymore’s astrocartography, England is comÂpletely framed by Primary Saturn (located east of London, in its vertical, Imum Coeli or apparent midnight position) and Secondary Venus, which runs vertically, west of England, over northern Ireland, in its Transcendental Midheaven position.
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It is one of the Great Curiosities that Ethel Barrymore, the greatest American actress, is only known outside her country because of her film performances, except to a relatively small minority. Yet the fact is that her fame as an actress began with her arrival as a young girl in London in the eighteen-nineties, when she achieved a success that reads like a fairly story.
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