A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore often wore makeup and costuming that obscured his world famous looks on stage in the early years of his career.
John Barrymore supposedly survived the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake. He wrote a letter detailing all the events of the quake to his sister Ethel, in hopes that it might be worth some cash. A hundred dollars is the figure the wily Mr.Barrymore had in mind. However, it was later found that Barrymore had never been near the danger zone of the quake and when called on it, he simply smiled. The rascal, John Barrymore had struck again.
John Barrymore was played by Jack Cassidy in the 1976 film, W.C. Fields And Me.
John Barrymore was married and divorced four times. He was not adverse to taking a fifth wife, commenting not long before his death, that Solomon had a thousand wives and was known for his asute wisdom......
Toward the end of his career and indebted to his numerous ex-wives and the IRS, John Barrymore made a number of appearances on Rudy Vallee's radio program. Sadly, Barrymore was often the butt of jokes about his legendary drinking, womanizing, and failing memory. It was during a rehearsal of the Vallee program that Barrymore collapsed for the last time. He was hospitalized and diagnosed with pneumonia and chronic cirrhosis of the liver. Barrymore lingered in and out of consciousness and died ten days later.
John Barrymore was very enamored of sailing and owned a yacht named "The Mariner". He used to sale alone or with his well known compatriots Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh. Many journeys out to sea, by Barrymore and friends were to escape the ire of female conquests that were less than pleased with their subsequent treatment by the rascally Barrymore and friends.
John Barrymore did not initially wish to follow the family tradition of a career in the theater. Educated at King's College, Wimbledon, England, and The New York Students Art League in New York City, Barrymore worked for a time as a freelance artist and as a sketch artist for the "New York Evening Journal".
John Barrymore is also the father of Delores Ethel Mae Barrymore. Her mother was Delores Costello. She is the sister of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore. Delores chose, wisely it would seem, not to go into the family acting business.
John Barrymore was involved with notorious showgirl Evelyn Nesbit ("The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing") while still a teen. When Nesbit became pregnant in 1902 at age seventeen, the nineteen year old Barrymore offered to marry her, but the other "love" in her life, Stanford White, arranged for Nesbit to undergo an illegal abortion in a private clinic.
John Barrymore was married four times (Katherine Corri Harris, Blanche Oelrichs, Delores Costello, and Elaine Barrie). All four of Mr. Barrymore's marriages ended in divorce.
One of the more bizarre tales in Hollywood history is the "borrowing" of John Barrymore's body after his demise by Raoul Walsh and a couple of compatriots to salute Barrymore one last time with a drink. Barrymore's body was taken to the home of fellow rabble rouser and close friend, Errol Flynn. There Barrymore was propped up in a chair and left to surprise Flynn. Flynn walked in and nearly suffered a coronary. Flynn was later to remark that, that was one night in his life that he went to bed sober. Walsh and friends saluted Barrymore one last time and returned the body to the funeral home.
John Barrymore and his equally famous siblings, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, only worked together in one film, "Rasputin And The Empress", in 1932.
John is the father to Diana Barrymore and John Drew Barrymore.
John was 5' 9" (1.75 m)
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