John Barrymore

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Barrymore

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Virginia Bruce

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Barrymore

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Barrymore

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Genre: Action

Cast: George Raft

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

Genre: History

Cast: John Barrymore

Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Barrymore

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150...

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Cast: John Barrymore

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Barrymore

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kay Kyser

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Barrymore

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Fay

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vilma Banky

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Barrymore

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Q. Lewis

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

Genre:

Cast: Judy Garland

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gladys Swarthout

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6...

Genre: History

Cast: John Barrymore

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Genre: History

Cast: Art Gilmore

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ramon Novarro

A young American broker at large in London.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerold T. Hevener

Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerold T. Hevener

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerold T. Hevener

Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerold T. Hevener

Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Jessel

In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vincent Price

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Genre:

Cast: John Barrymore

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Gallop

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Wynne Matthison

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Kane

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Baker

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Acord

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Susan George

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Ferrer

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Genre: History

Cast: Gayne Whitman

A history of horror movies.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Anthony Perkins

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett