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Ethel Barrymore ( August 15 , 1879 – June 18 , 1959 ) was an Academy Award -winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore Family . EARLY LIFE Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgianna Drew. She spent her childhood in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and attended Catholic schools while there. She was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore , the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore , and the grand-aunt of actress/producer Drew Barrymore . CAREER Barrymore was highly regarded as a Stage actor in New York City and a major Broadway performer. She was also a strong supporter of the Actors' Equity Association and had a high-profile role in the 1919 strike. In 1926, she scored one of her greatest successes as the sophisticated spouse of a philandering husband in W. Somerset Maugham 's comedy, '' The Constant Wife ''. She made her first motion picture in 1914 and in the 1940 s, she moved to Hollywood, California and started working in Motion Pictures . She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1944 film '' None But The Lonely Heart '' opposite Cary Grant , but made plain that she was not overly impressed by it. She made such other classic films as '' Pinky '', '' The Spiral Staircase '' and ''Kind Lady''.
PRIVATE LIFE ( December 12 , 1937 )]] Ethel Barrymore was married to Russell Griswold Colt (from 1909 until 1923), when they divorced. Winston Churchill proposed to her but she turned him down. Being a devout Roman Catholic , she was prohibited from remarrying by the Church. She was involved romantically with men from time to time, but never remarried. She had 3 children by Colt, including the late actress Ethel Barrymore Miglietta (neé Colt), who had a brief singing career and appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim 's "Follies", before her untimely death from cancer. Ethel Barrymore died from Heart Disease in 1959 at her home in Hollywood, California two months shy of her 80th birthday. She is interred in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles . The Ethel Barrymore Theatre ( {Link without Title} ) in New York City is named after her. EXTERNAL LINKS
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