Cast: John Barrymore

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · John Barrymore · Mary Astor

Plot Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow

Plot Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Plot Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed...

Direction William Wyler

Cast John Barrymore · Bebe Daniels · Doris Kenyon · Isabel Jewell

Plot A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past. At the bustling Manhattan law offices of Simon and Tedesco, highly successful Jewish attorney George...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Barrymore · Carole Lombard · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Plot Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Plot Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast John Barrymore · Brandon Hurst · Martha Mansfield · Charles Lane

Plot Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson´s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Donald Crisp · Bramwell Fletcher

Plot Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him,...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast John Barrymore · Camilla Horn · Victor Varconi · Hobart Bosworth

Plot Ciglia (Camilla Horn) is a young woman living in a tiny village in the Swiss Alps. Her village has been occupied by the French, and all of the villagers have...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Norma Shearer · Tyrone Power · John Barrymore · Robert Morley

Plot The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast George Raft · Henry Fonda · Dorothy Lamour · Akim Tamiroff

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast John Barrymore · Camilla Horn · Viktor Tourjansky · Lewis Milestone

Plot In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls...

Direction Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

Cast John Barrymore · Myrna Loy · Reginald Mason · Jobyna Howland

Plot Barrymore plays a French science teacher who is dismissed because he refuses to compromise his integrity by passing the student of a wealthy man. To console himself, Barrymore tinkers in...

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast John Barrymore · Conrad Veidt · Marceline Day · Lawson Butt

Plot In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent...

Direction Jack Conway

Cast John Barrymore · Lionel Barrymore · Karen Morley · John Miljan

Plot 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,...

Direction Albert Parker

Cast John Barrymore · Roland Young · Carol Dempster · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Plot Sherlock Holmes is a 1922 American silent film starring John Barrymore as Holmes and Roland Young as Watson. Believed lost for decades, much of the film finally resurfaced in the...

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast John Barrymore · Ethel Barrymore · Lionel Barrymore · Ralph Morgan

Plot It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous Barrymores -- Ethel, John and Lionel --...

Direction George Cukor

Cast John Barrymore · Katharine Hepburn · Billie Burke · David Manners

Plot After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them....

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast John Barrymore · Peter Holden · Virginia Weidler · Katharine Alexander

Plot In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · John Barrymore · Una Merkel

Plot Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when...