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.

Золотые моменты из фильмотеки MGM, что включает как комедии и драмы, так и классические музыкальные номера.

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!

Сумасшедший профессор Гиббс изобретает машину невидимости и начинает искать подходящую подопытную свинку. Он довольно быстро находит её в лице фотомодели Китти Кэрролл, но всё осложняется, когда его изобретение крадут несколько местных гангстеров.

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.

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

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.

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Два капитана рыболовецких шхун — Тайлер Доусон и Джим Киммерли, добывающие лосось на Аляске в жизни были друзьями детства. Они даже в одну девушку были влюблены и соперничали. Но более серьезный раскол произошел тогда, когда Тайлер вступает в сотрудничество с русскими браконьерами, а Джим считает вправе повести себя соответственно своим представлениям о чести…

16 мая 1770 г. 15-летняя Мария-Антуанетта была выдана матерью-императрицей Австрии замуж за Луи Августа, наследника трона Франции. Супруг не вызвал у возвышенной девушки восхищения: одутловатый и туповатый - он только раздражал юную принцессу. Еще больше расстраивали Марию ехидный, извращенный и больной король Людовик XV и его фаворитка - интриганка мадемуазель дю Барри, почувствовавшая угрозу со стороны будущей королевы. Следуя совету герцога Орлеанского, Мария ищет развлечения в светской бурлящей жизни и состоит в любовной связи с графом Акселем де Ферсеном. Однажды дело доходит до скандала, когда Мария публично на балу оскорбляет дю Барри, ее даже намерены с позором отправить обратно в Австрию, но король внезапно умирает, и Мария становится королевой Франции

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.

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

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.

Они проводят вдвоём всего один вечер, но влюбляются друг в друга на всю оставшуюся жизнь. Влюблённым не суждено быть вместе, судьбой предначертано ей выйти замуж за своего наставника и импресарио Николая Назарова, а ему уехать в дальние края. Проходят семь лет и волей случая они вновь на одной сцене. Их сердца и голоса звучат в унисон, а ревность импресарио-мужа не знает предела.

Между знатными веронскими семействами Монтекки и Капулетти уже много лет идет кровавая вражда. Но случается неожиданное: Ромео из рода Монтекки влюбляется в Джульетту из семьи Капулетти…

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.

Оскар Джаффе — успешный Бродвейский режиссер и продюсер, он ставит спектакли, которые собирают немалые деньги. Его боятся и уважают, успех постановок гарантирован, когда он говорит, все должны молчать. Его слово — закон. Однажды, во время очередной репетиции новой постановки, среди актеров-новичков он находит будущую звезду Бродвея Лили Гарлэнд. Эта девушка на три года становится его музой и их семейный дуэт «продюсер и актриса» возглавляет рейтинг успешных пар на театральных подмостках Нью-Йорка. Быстро текущее время и желание новых ощущений берет свое и в один из дней Лили решает порвать с театром ради карьеры в Голливуде. Фабрика грез манит красотку своими перспективами. Такой поворот сюжета не нравится Оскару: во-первых, жена — актриса приносит немалую прибыль его бизнесу; во-вторых, он все-таки, несмотря ни на что, ее любит.

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

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

Оливер Джордан неделю планировала ужин в честь лорда и леди Фернклифф. Она наняла оркестр и дополнительную прислугу, постаралась, чтобы даже гарниры не остались незамеченными. Чего м-с Джордан не знает, так это что ее модному ужину предстоит запомниться как катастрофе.

Малоизвестный фильм, рассказывающий простую историю летчиков, доставляющих почту из Южной Америки. Они летят на большой скорости, не взирая на ужасные погодные условия и предательство босса компании. Один из пилотов должен доставить в больницу умирающего ребенка, потому что только с помощью самолета можно успеть спасти его.

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.

Чтобы продвигать на рынке свою продукцию, производители лечебной воды нанимают в качестве химика-консультанта далёкого от реальной жизни профессора. Они используют его имя и безупречную репутацию, чтобы обмануть общественность. Каково же было удивление самого профессора, когда он обнаружил, что с его одобрения мошенники продают разлитую в бутылки воду из-под крана...

Это история о приближении ко двору и убийстве Григория Распутина. А так же последовавшей за этим гибели царской семьи. Этот фильм не является в полной мере исторической драмой. События и факты сильно искажены, равно как и имена некоторых героев. Фильм знаменит главным образом тем, что в нём приняли участие сразу трое представителей актёрской семьи Берриморов.

Фильм рассказывает об одном дне из жизни женщины Мэг Фэрфилд и ее дочери Сидни. Муж Мэг Хилари Фэрфилд уже почти 20 лет содержится в психиатрической больнице и женщина с ним развелась, для того, чтобы вступить в новый брак. Сидни тоже собирается замуж за молодого человека, но все в одночасье рушится, когда из больницы сбегает Хилари, у которого наступает момент просветления. Выясняется, что, скорее всего, девушка унаследовала психиатрические проблемы отца на генетическом уровне, что от нее тщательно скрывали, объясняя болезнь отца результатом контузии, полученной во время Первой Мировой войны..

Обычный день роскошного Берлинского гранд-отеля, сотни служащих и гостей, люди встречаются, люди расходятся… Убийство и воровство, любовь и ненависть, азарт и жадность — все грехи мира представлены в этом замкнутом мире красоты и порока. Судьба всех сводит в один клубок.

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.

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.

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 falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

Преподаватель музыки Свенгали при помощи гипноза превращает прелестную, но лишенную музыкального слуха девушку Трильби О'Фиррэл, которая работает натурщицей для художников, в замечательную певицу. Свенгали увозит Трильби, и она начинает совсем другую жизнь, выступая в качестве знаменитой певицы мадам Свенгали. Однако маэстро вынужден постоянно держать свою жертву под гипнозом, поскольку, просыпаясь, она испытывает необъяснимый ужас перед хозяином, несмотря на его глубокую любовь к ней. Это подтачивает силы самого гипнотизера и приближает трагическую развязку...

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.

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

История любви и страсти простого солдата из крестьян, выбившегося своими способностями и усидчивостью в офицеры и аристократки, дочери генерала, на фоне первой мировой войны и революции в России…

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

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

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

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

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.

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.

«Бен-Гур» — рассказ о богатом юноше еврее, который в результате случайности был обвинен в покушении на римского наместника и попадает в рабство, а его сестру и мать забирают в тюрьму. По пути на галеры, он сталкивается с Иисусом Христом, сыном плотника, который подаст воду страждущему. Когда судно потопили пираты, Бен-Гур спасает римского центуриона от гибели, и тот в благодарность усыновляет его…

Джордж Браммел, капитан гусарского полка, влюблен в Марджери, которая по принуждению семьи выходит замуж за лорда Альвэнли. По воле случая (и благодаря расчету, призванному этому случаю помочь), Браммелу удается заслужить расположение принца Уэльского. Он уходит из армии, становится близким другом принца и непререкаемым авторитетом в области моды и светских манер. Поссорившись с принцем, покинутый всеми, кроме верного слуги Мортимера, Браммел бежит от кредиторов в Кале…

Гений зла — профессор Мориарти — опутал своей преступной сетью всю Англию. А Шерлок Холмс, еще не сыщик, живет в деревне и изучает жизнь. Но пройдет время, и они встретятся в решающей схватке. Нет, не близ Рейхенбахского водопада. Да и схватка будет не физическая, а борьба Великих Умов.

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.

Научное исследование корней зла превращает доктора в ужасного порочного демона

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.