John Barrymore

A chemist and physician concocts a solution he believes will separate good and evil parts of the human soul, thus creating a being of moral purity and a being that can indulge in its deepest desires.

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.

Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

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

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 Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.

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

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.

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 Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!

El profesor Gibbs inventa una máquina que puede hacer invisible a la gente, y la usa con Kitty Carroll, una atractiva y aventurera modelo. Pero unos gansters roban la máquina para su jefe, así que tendrán que enfrentarse a la mujer invisible.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Clásica "screwball comedy" (escrita por Billy Wilder y su guionista habitual, Charles Brackett) en la que una chica americana, perdida en París y sin un centavo, se hace amiga de un taxista. Éste la lleva en su taxi a una fiesta de la alta sociedad, donde se hará pasar por una dama rica y elegante.

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.

Un político que se presenta a gobernador ayuda a una universidad a conseguir la victoria de su equipo de fútbol americano.

Tyler (George Raft) y Jim (Henry Fonda), dos amigos de la infancia que viven en Alaska, tienen dos visiones contrapuestas de la vida: Tyler es ambicioso y está dispuesto a conseguir dinero por cualquier medio; en cambio, Jim es un tipo honesto que se conforma con ser pescador de atunes. Tyler llega incluso a aliarse con unos piratas rusos para robarle a Jim la mercancía pescada. Costosa producción de la Paramount que se vio recompensada con un Oscar Especial a la fotografía.

Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.

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

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.

Enloquecida comedia sobre una mentirosa patológica que se acusa del asesinato de su jefe. Mientras tanto, su recto marido, que es abogado, tiene que defenderla.

Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.

An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.

Adaptación de la inmortal obra de William Shakespeare sobre el romance de dos jóvenes que se enamoran a pesar de las desavenencias de sus respectivas familias. Llama la atención la elección de Cukor de dos actores maduros (Leslie Howard contaba con 43 años de edad y Norma Shearer con 34) para los papeles principales.

The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.

Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) es un dramaturgo y director teatral de Broadway que goza de gran prestigio, pero que tiene un carácter insoportable. En uno de los castings conoce a una joven actriz llamada Mildred (Carole Lombard), a la que escoge como protagonista de su obra. La rebautiza con el nombre de Lily Garland, que resulta mucho más comercial y llamativo. El estreno es un éxito de crítica y público, y la actriz se convierte en una estrella de Hollywood.

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

George Simon, un exitoso abogado judío de Manhattan, tiene que enfrentarse de repente a la infidelidad de su mujer y a su propio pasado.

Una mujer prepara una cena para unos amigos. Quiere animar a su marido, cuya salud está un poco resentida. No obstante, invita al responsable de las principales preocupaciones de su marido, un hombre de negocios que pretende hacerse con las acciones de la empresa que su marido tiene.

Cuenta la historia de un grupo de esforzados pilotos del servicio de correos a las órdenes de Riviere.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

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

Un honesto e ingenuo maestro recibe una lección sobre cómo funciona el mundo fuera del aula, cuando un rico barón y su amante usan al maestro y su sobresaliente reputación para comercializar bajo su nombre una bebida de dudosa calidad.

El joven hijo del Zar Nicolás II es querido por los suyos y por el pueblo. Ahora bien, está aquejado de hemofilia. El sacerdote Rasputin, quien le salva de una grave herida ante la sorpresa de los impotentes médicos, se ganará la confianza de la Zarina.

Hillary Fairfield, víctima de los bombardeos de la Primera Guerra Mundial y afectado por una crisis nerviosa, escapa del manicomio donde lleva casi quince años encerrado y vuelve a casa el día de Navidad. Ese mismo día, su esposa, de la cual se ha divorciado sin saberlo, piensa casarse con un hombre de buena posición.

Las diferentes historias de los huéspedes de un elegante hotel es el argumento de este film de brillante reparto. Obtuvo tan sólo un Oscar, pero fue el de mejor película.

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.

Arsène Lupin (John Barrymore), un ladrón que se hace pasar por el Duque de Charmerace, vive en París y su único objetivo es desplumar a los ricos. Después del robo perpetrado en la mansión del millonario Gourney-Martin (Tully Marshall), el detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) sospecha que el culpable es el famoso Lupin. En una fiesta, en la que coinciden Guerchard y Lupin, éste decide actuar: un corte abrupto de la electricidad y el robo de varios invitados, que sólo se dan cuenta cuando vuelve la luz. Gourney-Martin invita a su residencia campestre a Charmerace y a Sonia (Karen Morley), que, en realidad es una ladronzuela que trata de rehabilitarse colaborando con Guerchard.

Prolongación de "Svengali" (1931), continúa el drama de una figura siniestra que adopta a un adolescente como discípulo. En este caso, se trata de un titiritero lisiado (John Barrymore), que rescata a un abusado niño y lo convierte en un gran bailarín de ballet.

Svengali es un profesor de música que utiliza a las mujeres, controlándolas por medio de ciertos poderes hipnóticos y telepáticos. Cuando conoce a la dulce Trilby, una modelo que posa para pintores, y que posee una magnífica voz, decide que la muchacha ha de ser suya... (FILMAFFINITY)

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

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.

The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.

Marcus Paltram, cazador de un pueblo suizo, está enamorado de Ciglia, pero es amado a su vez por Pia, una chica de las montañas que odia a Ciglia. Una noche, Pia seduce a Marcus y, obligado por la madre de ella, éste se casa con la muchacha. Ciglia se casa a su vez con Lorenz Gruber, que siempre la ha querido. Furioso porque Ciglia sigue amando a Marcus, Gruber trata de sobornarle para que abandone el pueblo. COMENTARIOS Ya bien asentado en América, el prolífico director que destacó por sus elegantes comedias realizó también, en la etapa anterior de cine mudo, numerosos dramas como este Amor eterno. Amor eterno, es una tragedia en toda regla, montada con un par de panorámicas de una aldea pintoresca como cualquiera habida en los nevados Alpes de aquellos tiempos, unos exteriores repartidos entre los desfiladeros montañosos y la calle principal del pueblo, una ordenada algarabía de vecinos de un lado para otro y un guión muy apañado.

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

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

Francia, siglo XVIII. Un noble que estudia para ser sacerdote abandona su vocación cuando se enamora de una hermosa, pero reticente, cortesana.

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

La acción se desarrolla en Roma, en la época de los Borgia, Lucrecia (Estelle Taylor), César (Warner Orland), y el Conde Donati (Montagu Love). Don Juan (John Barrymore), a quién su padre Don José (también John Barrymore) enseñó que las mujeres sólo traen tres cosas: vida, desilusión y muerte, tiene múltiples romances a sus espaldas, pero vive obsesionado con la única mujer que nunca pudo tener, Doña Isabel (Jane Winton). Ella y él sufrirán la ira de Lucrecia, despechada por ser ignorada por Don Juan, así como por matar este al conde Donati en un duelo... Destaca por ser la primera película de la historia con una banda sonora completa y efectos de sonido sincronizados, al ser el primer largometraje de la Warner Bros que utilizó el sistema de sonido Vitaphone. Sin embargo, en esencia, y al margen de estos detalles técnicos, se concibió y produjo como una película muda, sin ningún diálogo sonoro, siendo todos los diálogos a base de intertítulos al igual que en el cine mudo.

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150 miles off the West coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. Prince Alexis is accused of a theft that he insists he didn’t commit. The evidence is stacked against him, but Holmes’ trusted friend, Dr. Watson, vouches for the prince. As the famed detective investigates, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.

Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he takes off on a balloon trip to China.

Famosa adaptación del clásico de Robert Louis Stevenson. En esta ocasión, es John Barrymore el amable doctor Jekyll, que sufre de un terrible trastorno de doble personalidad que le hace convertirse de vez en cuando en el terrible Mr. Hyde.

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 young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.

AJ Raffles, a handsome jewel thief masquerades as a gentleman of society fitting in with well-to-do people. He dons a mask and waits for an opportune moment to steal belongings, usually some jewelry and to take advantage of unsuspecting women whether at an estate or aboard a passenger ship. Raffles knows secret passageways to aid his escape from capture such as disappearing into a large grandfather clock that is really a secret doorway. He even eludes capture by jumping off a ship and swimming to shore while women passengers fire pistols at him.

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star and political intrigue.

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's mistaken for a laborer.

On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells her that the "incident" was actually an initiation rite of the Masons, knowing that his wife has always wanted him to join the group. She excitedly tells her father about Frank's becoming a Mason, since her father is also a Mason. What neither she nor Frank know is that her father has actually been doing the same thing Frank is--pretending to be a Mason when he actually isn't. Complications ensue.

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

A young American broker at large in London.

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 can rescue her in some romantic way.

Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young girl, Fannie Fatima. She writes a note on one of the leaves of a book of cigarette papers, declaring she will wed the man who finds it.

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea of playing the game on his little sister, Henrietta. He writes a note reading, "I have your children. Put four thousand dollars under the stone on front porch and I will bring them back. They are now hanging by the hair. Blue Beard." He then tells Henrietta to look the other way, and he takes her dolls out of the doll buggy and hides them in the garden. Then he places the note in the rural delivery mailbox at the front gate. A little later a young fellow brings an auto up to the gate and the children plead for a ride. After a little hesitancy he consents and the children are carried away to the park. Mrs. Mills misses the children and finds the note in the mail box. She takes the matter seriously, and gathering a lot of neighbors and a policeman, gives chase to the auto.

Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals.

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 compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl.