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Lionel Barrymore - what members say

Key Largo review by A customer from Newcastle

Bogey gets a slap 9 July 2004
...cco. Lauren Bacall plays the widow of Bogey's war time friend and the venerable Lionel Barrymore is outstanding as Temple, the hotel proprietor. Claire Trevor plays Rocco's mol... Read customer review

Grand Hotel review by RJNeb2 from London

Grandly entertaining 1 October 2005
...r intended victim, worn-out ballerina Garbo who just wants to be alone. Brother Lionel Barrymore plays a dying man whooping it up in style before his big exit, affording him th... Read customer review

Lionel Barrymore - filmography

Key Largo on DVD (1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »

72% from 3,164 members

It's A Wonderful Life - Blu-ray (1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »

86% from 215 members
Not available for rental

It's A Wonderful Life on DVD (1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »

81% from 5,379 members

Duel In The Sun on DVD (1946)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: King Vidor
Certificate:
Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), ..read more »

58% from 468 members

Since You Went Away on DVD (1944)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: John Cromwell
Certificate:
One of the great films to emerge from the Second World War, focusing on the home front and the life of a typical family, where the man of the house is away at war.

63% from 81 members

Doctor Kildare - Double Feature on DVD (1939)
Starring: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Certificate:
Two features from the 'Dr Kildare' film series. In 'Secret Of Dr. Kildare', Kildare treats Dr. Gillespie's cancer. Also includes 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Kildare', in which the patients of a brain surgeon do not appear to get better.

46% from 16 members

You Can't Take It With You on DVD (1938)
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel ..read more »

67% from 1,366 member

Captains Courageous on DVD (1937)
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Victor Fleming
Certificate:
A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey ..read more »

73% from 465 members

Camille (1936)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Director: George Cukor
Certificate:
1847 - In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatre, balls and gambling clubs where the code was discretion ... but the game was romance. This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands of popularity - ..read more »

69% from 138 members
Not currently released

David Copperfield (1935)
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, W.C. Fields
Director: George Cukor
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Otherwise known as "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger", this 1935 version of the classic Charles Dickens tale stars some of the best actors of the time in it's retelling of the life of young Mr. Copperfield.

70% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

The Little Colonel (1935)
Starring: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Director: David Butler
Certificate:
In the post Civil War South, an embittered old southern gent (Lionel Barrymore) turns his back on his daughter (Evelyn Venable) when she marries the 'wrong man'. Years later, the daughter returns with her husband and young daughter (Shirley Temple), the latter of whom manages to mend the broken ..read more »

73% from 46 members
Not currently released

Grand Hotel (1932)
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Director: Edmund Goulding
Certificate:
The creme de la creme of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious GRAND HOTEL, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. ..read more »

65% from 948 members
Not currently released

Lionel Barrymore facts

5 most recent films

Key Largo - 3.5 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - 4.0 stars
Duel In The Sun - 3.0 stars
Since You Went Away - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

It's A Wonderful Life - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - 4.0 stars
Captains Courageous - 3.5 stars
Key Largo - 3.5 stars
Camille - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Doctor Kildare - Double Feature - 2.5 stars
David Copperfield - 3.5 stars
The Little Colonel - 3.5 stars
Duel In The Sun - 3.0 stars
Since You Went Away - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Stewart - 4 times - show films
Thomas Mitchell - 3 times - show films
H.B. Warner - 3 times - show films
Henry Travers - 3 times - show films
Frank Faylen - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Frank Capra - 4 times - show films
George Cukor - 2 times - show films
Edmund Goulding - 1 times - show films
King Vidor - 1 times - show films
Harold S. Bucquet - 1 times - show films