John Barrymore Movies

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer...

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is...

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she...

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed...

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden...

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6...

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.