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Ethel Barrymore
Acting
12 Aug 1879
† 18 Jun 1959
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian...
Also Known As
Ethel Mae Blythe, Этель Барримор



























