Biography: John Barrymore
Biography: John Barrymore
Biography: John Barrymore
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Various exerpts from films starring John Barrymore, selected specifically to show his broad range and wealth of talent.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt from "Twentieth Century"
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt from Henry VI, Part 3
Biography: John Barrymore
MS of John in his later years, seated before a backstage make-up mirror, applying powder, wearing a robe.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Opening credits and WALLACE's introduction.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt with John as a sailor with a monkey.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt from Svengali
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt Barrymore talking to camera
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpts from "The Mad Genius"
Biography: John Barrymore
Great montage of turn-of-the-century theater: drama, vaudville, dance, musical; actors and performers.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Stills of Barrymore's mother, father, brother and sister, followed by stills of John as a young boy, a teenager, a young man (all portrait style).
Biography: John Barrymore
CU's of John's artwork, all bleak and dark and menacingly depressing but very well done.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Production stills from theatrical runs starring either or both John and his brother, Lionel Barrymore.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Great exerpt from silent adventure films (Western) starring Lionel Barrymore.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt from Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE The famous tranformation scene from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920).
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Production stills of the dashing young John from a variety of theater dates, as well as Cu's Playbills or newspapers announcements. Production stills of John acting in Shakespearean efforts, complemented by an audio recording of John reciting the "To be or not to be" speech from Hamlet.
Biography: John Barrymore
John Barrymore walks out of a door towards the camera. 2 other men are with him. He is smoking.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpt from the silent film, "Beau Brummel", starring John as a dandy fellow.
Biography: John Barrymore
Excellent Roaring Twenties montage: MS's of traditional jazz bands, speakeasies, dancers, parties. CU's of bottles being opened and poured, feet shuffling on the dance floor, and so on; there is also great use of superimposition.
Biography: John Barrymore
Sailing montage: tight LS's and MS's of John sailing on a personal yacht with several of his friends. MS's of brave John standing on a California beach and smoking a cigarette while playing, harassing, and taunting a pack of sea lions. More sailing shots. John Barrymore at the wheel with his pet monkey.
Biography: John Barrymore
High angle tight LS of an expansive movie set being built, pan right to survey the extent. MS of a cameraman kneeling and cranking a silent camera (nice shot).
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE MS's of Dolores Costello, John's third wife. Excerpts from "The Sea Beast", a film starring the both of them; includes a funny publicity MS of John and Dolores on the set, doing a dinner scene as the director watches on in FG; the latter calls to cut but they won't stop kissing.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Still photos
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Bumper
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpt from "Don Juan" (1926), one of the first sound films. Featured is the famous swordfight scene.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpts from "Svengali" (the famous tracking shot from John's eyes and out the window),
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpts from "The Mad Genius"
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Still Photo
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Excerpts from "Twentieth Century" (the psedo-fight scene between John and Carole Lombard).
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USEstills of a sad, lonely John Barrymore, during and after the divorce from Dolores. Stills of John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie, his fourth wife and an aspiring actress much younger than he.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Exerpt from the only film she ever performed in, the semi-skin flick, "How to Undress For Your Husband".
Biography: John Barrymore
MS's and CU's of Elaine and John sitting on a bench in the backyard of their home, talking to one another about their marriage, in what may be a studio publicity stunt. MS of two giant klieg lights shining into the Hollywood evening. LS's of a premiere gala event in Hollywood, pan left. MS of John looking into the camera, a cigarette dangling from his lip. MS's of John pressing his famous profile into wet cement on the sidewalk outside the famous Chinese Theater in Los Angeles (that's right, he actually presses his face into cement!) MS's of a radio show in production on a sound stage in LA. MS's of a weakened John seated behind a desk, smoking a cigarette, reading from a script and speaking into a microphone. MS's of an actor and actress reciting lines into a separate microphone, both of whom are standing before a live audience.
Biography: John Barrymore
MS interview of John Barrymore, backstage of a Broadway theater. He babbles and cajoles his way through the interview, seemingly simultaneously annoyed, agitated, drunk and unmotivated. He slurs and says he is back together with Elaine Barry. He ends by treating the camera to his profile.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE Still of a 40ish and suave John superimposed over a high angle tight LS of an empty theater while the soundtrack relays an exerpt of John acting in Hamlet; the camera pans left to the empty stage where a single spotlight shines front and center; the curtains draw to a close, the portrait fades off.
Biography: John Barrymore
DO NOT USE End Credits.