Ethel Barrymore, was a major Broadway performer. Many consider her to be the greatest actress of her generation. She performed in her first film, The Nightingale (1934). She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919 most of them for the old Metro studio. Most of these pictures were made on the East Coast, as her Broadway career and children came first. All of her silent films are lost with the exception of The Call of Her People(1917). In the 1940s, she moved to Hollywood, California. The only two films that featured all three siblings—Ethel, John and Lionel—were National Red Cross Pageant (1917) and Rasputin and the Empress (1932). The former film is now lost.
She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, None but the Lonely Heart(1944) opposite Cary Grant.
She performed in The Spiral Staircase (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak, The Paradine Case (1947) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and Portrait of Jennie (1948). Her last film performance was in Johnny Trouble (1957). She also made a number of television appearances in the 1950s, including one performance with comedian Jimmy Durante on NBC's All Star Revue on December 1, 1951.
She then went onto perform in the film, Deadline(1952). Crime film. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore and Kim Hunter. A story about a newspaper editor Ed Hutcheson, working for a large metropolitan newspaper called The Day. He is loyal to publisher Margaret Garrison, the widow of the paper's founder, who wants to sell the newspaper. Hutcheson, begins working on the big story about the murder of a young woman which could turn out to be the "big story" that keeps the paper in business or else the last "big story" it ever covers.
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