Diana Barrymore

Actress

Female

Born Mar 3, 1921

Hometown New York City

Died Jan 25, 1960

Death Place New York City

Other Names Blythe, Diana Bla...

Diana Barrymore was an American film and stage actress.

Romance

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Robert Wilcox
Married 1950 - 1955
John Howard
Married 1947
Bramwell Fletcher
Married 1942

Family

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Diana Barrymore

d.1960

parents

John Barrymore
Father, d.1942
Blanche Oelrichs
Mother, d.1950

siblings

John Drew Barrymore
Brother, d.2004

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Los Piratas De Antes No Usaban Rimmel Página 12
Google News - May 23, 2011

Aceptó luego el papel de John Barrymore –otro alcohólico tan tenaz como él– en la biografía de Diana Barrymore interpretada por la formidable Dorothy Malone de Palabras al viento, por la que ganó un Oscar, en la que hizo un strip tease y culminó su
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Calendar: May 11 17 Pw Philadelphia Weekly
Google News - May 11, 2011

Too Much, Too Soon is a Diana Barrymore biopic that features Errol Flynn as John Barrymore, the father she never knew. Alcohol had reduced the rakish Tasmanian to a mere shell of his former self by the time he got to play his idol
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National Arts Club Presents Shakespeare's Ages Of Man 4/27 Broadway World
Google News - Apr 25, 2011

In regional theater he has co-starred with Diana Barrymore, Eve Arden, Nancy Walker, Nina Foch and many others. Joehas recently added producer to his resume, his projects include John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown and Time Stands Still
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Romancing The Stones
NYTimes - May 27, 2007

GROWING up in the Bronx, I knew Woodlawn Cemetery as the final destination of my subway route, the No. 4 elevated train that ran along Jerome Avenue and rattled literally to the end of the line. When I was a small child and my mother took me on sylvan strolls there, I didn't realize that Woodlawn was a graveyard. I thought it was merely a park
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1921 Birth Born on March 3, 1921.

TEENAGE

1939 18 Years Old While in her teens, Barrymore decided to study acting and enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Because of the prominence of the Barrymore name in the world of theatre, her move onto the stage began with much publicity including a 1939 cover of Life. … Read More

TWENTIES

1942 21 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1942, she signed a contract with Universal Studios who capitalized on her Barrymore name with a major promotion campaign billing her as "1942's Most Sensational New Screen Personality."

1949 28 Years Old In 1949 she was offered her own television talk show The Diana Barrymore Show. … Read More

THIRTIES

1955 34 Years Old After three bad marriages to addicted and sometimes abusive men, in 1955 Barrymore had herself hospitalized for nearly a full year of treatment.

1957 36 Years Old In 1957, she published her autobiography, Too Much, Too Soon which included her portrait painted by Spurgeon Tucker, and the following year Warner Bros. made a film with the same title starring Dorothy Malone as Barrymore and Errol Flynn as her father. … Read More

1960 39 Years Old Barrymore died from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills on January 25, 1960 and is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, next to her mother.

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