John Barrymore — Actor (27)
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State's Attorney (1932) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
State's Attorney
director: George Archainbaud actor: John Barrymore / Helen Twelvetrees …
other title: El fiscal / La última acusación
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.
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Don Juan (1926) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Don Juan
director: Alan Crosland actor: John Barrymore / Jane Winton …
other title: Don Giovanni e Lucrezia Borgia / Don Juan – Der große Liebhaber
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.
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Dinner at Eight (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dinner at Eight
director: George Cukor actor: Marie Dressler / John Barrymore …
other title: Pranzo alle otto / Dinner um acht …
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
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True Confession (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
True Confession
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La moglie bugiarda / La folle confession …
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.
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World Premiere (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
World Premiere
director: Ted Tetzlaff / Otis Garrett actor: John Barrymore / Frances Farmer …
other title: Weltpremiere
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!
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Marie Antoinette (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Marie Antoinette
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: Norma Shearer / Tyrone Power …
other title: Maria Antonietta / Maria Antonieta …
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Arsène Lupin (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Arsène Lupin
director: Jack Conway actor: John Barrymore / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: Arsene Lupin, der König der Diebe
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.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
director: Louis King actor: John Barrymore / John Howard …
other title: Bulldog Drummond Der explosive Koffer / La revanche de Bulldog Drummond …
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.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
director: James P. Hogan actor: John Barrymore / John Howard …
other title: Bulldog Drummond Der künstliche Diamant / Bulldog Drummond en péril …
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.
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
director: Louis King actor: John Barrymore / John Howard …
other title: Bulldog Drummond Die Rache der schwarzen Witwe / Le Triomphe de Bulldog Drummond …
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.
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Movie Maniacs (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Movie Maniacs
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
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Spawn of the North (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Spawn of the North
director: Henry Hathaway actor: George Raft / Henry Fonda …
other title: Il falco del Nord / Piraten in Alaska …
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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The Mad Genius (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Mad Genius
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Barrymore / Marian Marsh …
other title: El ídolo / Le Génie fou …
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.
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The Show of Shows (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Show of Shows
director: John G. Adolfi actor: Frank Fay / Lloyd Hamilton …
other title: La rivista delle nazioni / Arriba el telón …
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Beloved Rogue (1927) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Beloved Rogue
director: Alan Crosland actor: John Barrymore / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Il poeta vagabondo / Der Bettelpoet …
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.