John Barrymore Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150...

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

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...

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

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.

A young American broker at large in London.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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