John Barrymore Movies

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

A young American broker at large in London.

The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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