
Acting
Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian theater of America and England. The Barrymore children were born and grew up in Philadelphia. Thou…

Vaudeville
as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Johnny Trouble
as Katherine Chandler

Eloise
as Herself

Young at Heart
as Aunt Jessie Tuttle

The Story of Three Loves
as Mrs. Hazel Pennicott

Main Street to Broadway
as Self

Deadline - U.S.A.
as Margaret Garrison

Just for You
as Alida De Bronkhart

It's a Big Country
as Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952