LIONEL BARRYMORE 1932 ETCHING GRAND HOTEL ORIGINAL

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LIONEL BARRYMORE 1932 ETCHING SELF PORTRAIT OF OTTO KRINGELFIN FROM THE FILM "GRAND HOTEL". ABOUT 16X18 IN SIZE FRAMED IN SMOKED GLASS. ORIGINAL, 100% AUTHENTIC, NO COPY. INSURANCE OPTIONAL WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE. Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. [1 ] He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931). He is well known for the role of the villainous Henry Potter in Frank Capra 's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life . Early lifeBarrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore ( né Blythe). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore , the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore , and the granduncle (or great-uncle ) of Drew Barrymore . Barrymore was raised Roman Catholic .[ 2] He attended the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .[ 3] In her autobiography Eleanor Farjeon recalled that she and Barrymore were friends as toddlers; she would take off her shoes and he would kiss her feet. [4 ]During World War I Lionel staved off the deadly Spanish Influenza by taking cold alcohol baths as an antiseptic.He was married twice, to actresses Doris Rankin and Irene Fenwick , a one-time lover of his brother John. Doris's sister Gladys was married to Lionel's uncle Sidney Drew , which made Gladys both his aunt and sister-in-law.Doris Rankin bore Lionel two daughters, Ethel Barrymore II (b. 1908) and Mary Barrymore. Unfortunately, neither baby girl survived infancy, though Mary lived a few months. Lionel never truly recovered from the deaths of his girls, and their loss undoubtedly strained his marriage to Doris Rankin, which ended in 1923. Years later, Barrymore developed a fatherly affection for Jean Harlow , who was born around the same time as his two daughters and would have been around their age. When Jean died in 1937, Lionel and Clark Gable mourned her as though she had been family. Stage career Barrymore began his stage career in the mid 1890s acting with his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew . He appeared on Broadway in his early twenties with his uncle John Drew Jr. in such plays as The Second in Command (1901) and The Mummy and the Hummingbird (1902), both produced by Charles Frohman . In 1905 Lionel and his siblings John and Ethel were all being groomed under the tutelage of Frohman. That year Lionel appeared with John in a short play called Pantaloon while John appeared with Ethel in Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire . In 1910, after he and Doris had spent many years in Paris , Lionel came back to Broadway , where he established his reputation as a dramatic and character actor. He and his wife Doris often acted together when in the theater. He proved his talent in many other plays such as Peter Ibbetson (1917) (with brother John ), The Copperhead (1918) (with wife Doris) and The Jest (1919) (again with John). Lionel gave a short lived performance on stage as MacBeth in 1921. The play was not successful and more than likely convinced Lionel to return to films permanently. One of Lionel's last plays was Laugh, Clown, Laugh in 1923 with his second wife Irene Fenwick. This play would later be made into a 1928 silent film starring Lionel's friend Lon Chaney . Film career Barrymore entered films around 1911 with D.W. Griffith . There are claims Lionel entered films in 1908 for Griffith in The Paris Hat but Griffith did not make a movie in 1908 with this title. Lionel and Doris were in Paris in 1908 where Lionel was attending art school and where their first baby Ethel was born. Lionel claims in his autobiography We Barrymores that he and Doris were in France when Bleriot flew the channel on July 25, 1909.Lionel entered films the same year his uncle Sidney Drew began his film career at Vitagraph , which might have had an influence on Lionel. With Griffith, Lionel made such titles as The Battle (1911), The New York Hat (1912) and Three Friends (1913). In 1915 ... read more

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