Biographies: Ethel Barrymore - Actor

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Ethel Barrymore was born on August 15, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, as Ethel Mae Blythe. She married Russell Griswold Colt (1909-1923), with whom she had three children. Among her most notable films are The Spiral Staircase (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and Pinky (1949). After her initial studies, she prepared to be a pianist but was drawn to the stage. She worked in the theaters of England and then returned to New York to work in its theaters. At the beginning of the thirties, her cinematic career began, but with the roles of elderly mothers, grandmothers, widows, or spinsters. At the beginning of the fifties, she started working on television. She won an Academy Award in 1945 for the movie None But the Lonely Heart (1944) and received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. Ethel Barrymore died on June 18, 1959, in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

• 17 March 2022
• Dalia Saad