John Barrymore

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Barrymore, John

John Barrymore wearing a suit and fedora, looking at the camera with a pipe in his mouth.

John Barrymore in costume as a rugged mountaineer, wearing a fur hat and striped fur sash, stands in front of ornate wooden doors in a scene from Eternal Love (1929).

John Barrymore and Greta Garbo in a black-and-white scene from Grand Hotel, with Barrymore seated close behind Garbo, both looking serious.

John Barrymore, in a decorated military uniform, faces Lionel Barrymore, who has long hair and a full beard, in a scene from Rasputin and the Empress (1932).

Carole Lombard extends her leg to kick John Barrymore in a dramatic scene from the 1934 screwball comedy Twentieth Century, directed by Howard Hawks.

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Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince (1943, reissued 1989); John Kobler, Damned in Paradise: The Life of John Barrymore (1977); Martin F. Norden, John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography (1995).

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 25, 2026
	Anniversary information added.		Feb 11, 2026
	Modified link of Web site: Turner Classic Movies - John Barrymore.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 12, 2025
	Add new Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - John Barrymore.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 31, 2025
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Idea of a John Barrymore.	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 08, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: AllMovie - John Barrymore.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 12, 2023
	Link added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - John Barrymore.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 22, 2021
	Article revised and updated.	Patricia Bauer	Jan 10, 2020
	Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of John Barrymore.	Gloria Lotha	May 24, 2019
	Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of John Barrymore.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Mar 20, 2017
	Deleted text that said his siblings did not have children.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 05, 2014
	Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - John Barrymore.	Parul Jain	Aug 02, 2011
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of John Barrymore.	Parul Jain	Aug 02, 2011
	Added photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	Mar 18, 2011
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	Sep 04, 2008
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Dec 21, 2006
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 04, 1999