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'"To The
Ladies" with
Lionel Barrymore promotes women's enlistment
...' in the
Women's Army Corps.
Public domain film from the
Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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Women's_Army_Corps
The Women's
Army Corps (
WAC) was the women's branch of the
United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (
WAAC) on 15 May
1942 by
Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC on 1 July 1943. Its first director was
Oveta Culp Hobby, a prominent society woman in
Texas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 --
November 15, 1954) was an
American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an
Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in
A Free Soul (1931), and remains perhaps best known for the role of the villainous
Mr. Potter character in
Frank Capra's
1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He was a member of the theatrical
Barrymore family...
Barrymore began his stage career in the mid-1890s, acting with his formidable grandmother
Louisa Lane Drew. He appeared on
Broadway in his early twenties with his uncle
John Drew Jr. in such plays as
The Second in Command (
1901) and
The Mummy and the Hummingbird (1902), both produced by
Charles Frohman. In
1905 Lionel and his siblings,
John and
Ethel, were all being groomed under the tutelage of Frohman. That year Lionel appeared with John in a short play called
Pantaloon while John appeared with Ethel in Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire.
In 1910, after he and
Doris had spent many years in
Paris, Lionel came back to Broadway, where he established his reputation as a dramatic and character actor. He and his wife often acted together on stage. He proved his talent in many plays, including
Peter Ibbetson (
1917) (with brother John),
The Copperhead (
1918) (with Doris), and The Jest (
1919) (again with John). Lionel gave a short-lived performance as MacBeth in
1921. The play was not successful and more than likely convinced Lionel to permanently return to films. One of Lionel's last plays was
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1923) with his second wife,
Irene Fenwick. This play would later be made into a 1928 silent film starring Lionel's friend,
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Film career
Barrymore began making films about
1911 with
D.W. Griffith at the
Biograph Studios. There are claims that he made an earlier film with Griffith called The Paris Hat (
1908) but no such movie exists. Lionel and Doris were in Paris in 1908, where Lionel attended art school and where their first baby, Ethel, was born. Lionel mentions in his autobiography, We Barrymores, that he and Doris were in
France when Bleriot flew the channel on July 25,
1909.
Entering films the same year his uncle
Sidney Drew began a film career at
Vitagraph, Barrymore made
The Battle (1911),
The New York Hat (1912),
Friends and
Three Friends (1913). In
1915 he co-starred with
Lillian Russell in a movie called
Wildfire, one of the legendary
Russell's few film appearances. He also made a foray into directing at
Biograph. The last silent film he directed,
Life's Whirlpool (
Metro Pictures 1917), starred his sister, Ethel...
During the
1930s and
1940s, he became stereotyped as grouchy but sweet elderly men in such films as
The Mysterious Island (1929),
Grand Hotel (1932, with
John Barrymore),
Captains Courageous (
1937),
You Can't
Take It with You (
1938),
On Borrowed Time (
1939, with
Cedric Hardwicke),
Duel in the Sun (1946), and
Key Largo (1948)...
Lionel Barrymore died on November 15, 1954 from a heart attack in
Van Nuys, California, and was entombed in the
Calvary Cemetery in
East Los Angeles, California.
Lionel Barrymore is honored with two stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the motion picture and radio categories. He is also a member of the
American Theatre Hall of Fame, along with his siblings, Ethel and John.
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