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Georgiana Emma Drew (July 11, 1856 – July 2, 1893), a.k.a. Georgie Drew Barrymore, was an American stage actress and comedian and a member of the Barrymore acting family.
Georgiana Drew, all'anagrafe Georgiana Emma Drew,, è stata un'attrice teatrale statunitense. Fu conosciuta anche come Georgie Drew Barrymore dopo il suo matrimonio con Maurice Barrymore, matrimonio che legò due tra le famiglie teatrali più prestigiose del mondo anglosassone, i Drew e i Barrymore: dall'unione tra Georgiana e ...
- Early Life
- Career and Marriage to Georgiana Drew
- Shooting
- Nadjezda
- Last Years
- Mental Breakdown and Death
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Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth in Amritsar, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company, and his wife Charlotte Matilda Chamberlayne de Tankerville. Herbert, the youngest of seven, had an older brother named Will and two sisters named Emily and Evelin. Three other siblings had died in infanc...
On 29 December 1874, Barrymore emigrated to the United States, sailing aboard the SS America to Boston, and joined Augustin Daly's troupe, making his début in Under the Gaslight. He made his Broadway début in December 1875 in Pique opposite Emily Rigl; in the cast was a young actress, Georgiana Drew, known as Georgie. Maurice and Georgiana had been...
On 19 March 1879, in Marshall, Texas, Barrymore and fellow actor Ben Porter were shot by a notorious gunfighter and bully named Jim Currie. Barrymore and Porter had played cards earlier with Currie, winning some money from him. That evening, while Barrymore, Porter and the actress Ellen Cummins dined at the White House Saloon, an intoxicated Currie...
In 1884, Barrymore wrote a play titled Nadjezda (meaning "hope"). During this period he sailed with his wife Georgiana and their children Lionel, Ethel and John, then respectively 6, 5 and 2, to England to visit relatives he hadn't seen since migrating to America. (He had inherited some money from his aunt Amelia, one of his family members who help...
In 1896, Barrymore became the first major Broadway star to headline in vaudeville—a brave foray at the time. During his career, Maurice Barrymore played opposite many of the reigning female stars of the time including Helena Modjeska, Mrs. Fiske, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Olga Nethersole, Lillian Russell, and Lily Langtry. In the 1895 theater season on B...
On 28 March 1901, Barrymore was performing at the Lion Palace Theatre in New York when he suddenly departed from his monologue and shocked the audience with what was described as "a blasphemous attack on the Jews" and a rant of "such an emotional pitch that tears rolled down his face." After further erratic behavior, Barrymore was committed to Bell...
In honor of his life, Michael J. Farrand penned the memorial narrative poem "The Man Who Brought Royalty to America" in 2000, based on the definitive biography Great Times, Good Times: The Odyssey of Maurice Barrymoreby James Kotsilibas Davis (Doubleday, 1977).
Maurice Barrymore at the Internet Broadway DatabaseIl patriarca della famiglia Barrymore fece il suo debutto a Broadway nel 1875 in Pique; nel cast c'era la giovane attrice Georgiana Drew, con cui si sposò il 31 dicembre 1876.
Georgiana Barrymore was an actress and, with Maurice Barrymore, founder of the famous stage and screen family Barrymore, which occupied a preeminent position in American theatre in the first half of the 20th century. Georgiana Drew was the daughter of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew, both.
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Georgiana Emma Drew (July 11, 1856 – July 2, 1893), a.k.a. Georgie Drew Barrymore, was an American stage actress and comedian and a member of the Barrymore acting family.
7 giu 2023 · Lionel Barrymore, primo figlio del patriarca Maurice Bliyth e di Georgina Drew, nasce a Filadelfia nel 1878. Seguendo la tradizione di famiglia, calca i palcoscenici americani già da piccolo, recitando insieme a suo padre senza mai raggiungere però il successo che otterrà suo fratello John.
