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Ethel Barrymore appeared in the 1953 film Main Street To Broadway with brother Lionel. It was Lionel's last film.
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The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York was named in her honor.
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Ethel was a strong supporter of the Actors' Equity Association, having a high profile role in their 1919 strike.
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Ethel made her Broadway debut in 1901 in Captain Jinks of the Horses Marines.
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Ethel earned $15,000 for her first film role.
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Ethel's final film role was in Johnny Trouble.
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Ethel made her screen debut in The Nightingale.
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Ethel and her brother Lionel are the first brother and sister to be awarded an Oscar.
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Ethel's nephew is John Drew Barrymore.
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Ethel's children are Samuel Colt, Ethel Colt, and John Drew Colt.
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Ethel appeared in Young At Heart with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day.
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Ethel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Ethel is buried in Calvary Cemetary in Los Angeles.
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Ethel reportedly disliked Laurence Olivier's 1948 movie version of Hamlet saying that Olivier was a much inferior Melancholy Dane to her brother John.
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During the 1920's, Ethel co-starred with Walter Hampden on Broadway as Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Her brother John had earlier played the role of Hamlet to great acclaim.
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Ethel was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1950 for Pinky but did not win.
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Ethel was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1948 for The Paradine Case but didn't win.
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Ethel was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1947 for The Spiral Staircase but didn't win.
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Ethel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Ethel was 5 feet, 7 inches tall.
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Ethel once appeared as the Mystery Guest on an episode of What's My Line?
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The 1932 film Rasputin and the Empress was Ethel's first talking picture. This was also the only film that Ethel Barrymore appeared in with both her brothers, John and Lionel.
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Ethel frequently played ailing old women in her screen roles.
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Ethel co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1952 film Deadline, USA.
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Ethel published her memoir entitled Memories in 1955.
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In 1951, Ethel accepted the Best Actress Academy Award for Judy Holliday who was absent from the ceremony.
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Ethel appeared in the 1932 film Rasputin and the Empress with siblings John and Lionel. It was the only time all three appeared together.
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Ethel was a Roman Catholic.
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Ethel is the great aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.
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Ethel was the sister of well-known actors John and Lionel Barrymore.
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Ethel won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1944 for her performance as Cary Grant's mother in None But the Lonely Heart.
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Winston Churchill once reportedly proposed to Ethel but got turned down.
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Ethel was married to stockbroker Russell Colt from 1909 to 1923. The couple had three children.
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Ethel reportedly slapped one of Al Capone's hoodlums who had come to shake her down for "protection" money while she was appearing in a play in Chicago.