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1997
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Directed by Philip Martell, music director of such horror films as Snake Woman (1961) and Die, Monster, Die! (1964), this...
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1983
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames. It is slated to...
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Duncan DeGrasse
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1941
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The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final...
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Himself
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1941
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John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and...
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Evans Garrick
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1940
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Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims...
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Prof. Gibbs
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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George Flammarion
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1939
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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Governor
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1938
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Ageing, alcohol-benumbed John Barrymore had one last great performance left in him before his death in 1942, and The Great...
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Vance
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Windy Turlon
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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Louis XV
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1938
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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Col. Nielson
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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Zolton Jason
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1938
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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Col. Nelson
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1937
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Nicolai Nazaroff
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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Charley
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1937
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In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly...
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Col. Nielson
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
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1937
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Mercutio
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1936
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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Oscar Jaffe
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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Carl Bellaire
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1934
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Auguste Topaze
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1933
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Riviere
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1933
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Larry Renault
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1933
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Rudolf
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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George Simon
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1933
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Duke of Charmerace
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1932
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Baron Felix von Geigern
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1932
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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Prince Paul Chegodieff
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1932
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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Hillary Fairfield
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1932
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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Svengali
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1931
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John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts...
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Tom Cardigan
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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Ivan Tzarakov
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1931
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Herman Melville's classic novel gets a major revision in this screen adaptation of his seafaring novel - Hollywood's first...
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Capt. Ahab
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1930
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The difference between social classes provides the basis for this comedy. The trouble begins when a drunken sot wanders into...
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Lord Strathpeffer
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1930
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This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who...
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Gen. Crack
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1929
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Marcus Paltram
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant...
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Sgt. Ivan Markov
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1928
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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Francois Villon
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1927
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Chevalier des Grieux
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1927
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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Don Jose de Marana/Don Juan de Marana
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1926
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This silent screen adaptation of "Moby Dick" features John Barrymore in action as Captain Ahab Cooley, played against one of...
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Ahab Ceeley
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1926
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John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial...
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George Bryan Brummet
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1924
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John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
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Sherlock Holmes
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1922
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Director Marshall Neilan proved to be a little ahead of his time when he made this satirical comedy-drama, based on the book...
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Jacques Leroi
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1921
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In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr....
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Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
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1920
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This farce was originally a stage play by Augustus Thomas, and starred William Collier, Sr.. On film, another notable stage...
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1918
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Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the heart of Mrs. Vidal...
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1917
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Bertie (John Barrymore) is a bashful young man, and his sweetheart is just barely able to squeeze a marriage proposal out of...
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1916
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Better known in 1916 for light comedy rather than heavy drama, John Barrymore effortlessly breezed through the four reels of...
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1916
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In spite of his acclaim as a stage actor, during his early motion picture career, John Barrymore generally played lightweight...
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1916
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1915
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The otherwise pedestrian The Incorrigible Dukane benefited immeasurably from the leading performance by John Barrymore. The...
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1915
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The Dictator, based on the novel and play by colorful journalist Richard Harding Davis, was brought to the screen in 1915...
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1915
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This lighthearted Famous Players five-reeler was tailor-made for the talents of young John Barrymore. The "Great Profile"...
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1914
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