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Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 - June 18, 1959) was an Oscar-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family.

Early life

Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She spent her girlhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Catholic schools while there.

She was the sister of actor John Barrymore and actor Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress/producer Drew Barrymore.

Career

Barrymore was highly regarded as a stage actor in New York City and a major Broadway performer. She was also a strong supporter of the Actors' Equity Association and had a high-profile role in the 1919 strike. In 1926, she scored one of her greatest successes as the sophisticated spouse of a philandering husband in W. Somerset Maugham's comedy, The Constant Wife.

She made her first motion picture in 1914 and in the 1940s, she moved to Hollywood, California and started working in motion pictures.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1944 film None but the Lonely Heart
opposite Cary Grant, but made plain that she was not overly impressed by it. She made such other classic films as Pinky, The Spiral Staircase
and Kind Lady.

Private life

Ethel Barrymore was married to Russell Griswold Colt (from 1909 until 1923), when they divorced. Previously, Winston Churchill, had considered proposed to her, but as she was an American citizen and a Roman Catholic, he decided it would be too problematic in those days.

She would have turned him down, anyway, because as a devout Roman Catholic, she was prohibited from remarrying by the Church. She was involved romantically with men from time to time, but never remarried.

She had 3 children by Colt, including the late actress Ethel Barrymore Miglietta (neé Colt), who had a brief singing career and appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies", before her untimely death from cancer.

Ethel Barrymore died from heart disease in 1959 at her home in Hollywood, California two months shy of her 80th birthday. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre () in New York City is named after her.

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Actors - Ethel Barrymore

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