As Europe looms on the edge of war in 1913, the family and members of the court of the Russian czar Nicholas Read More »
Tag Archives: Lionel Barrymore
Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
It is a week before Dr. Kildare’s wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. Read More »
Dr. Gillespies Criminal Case (1943) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Keye Luke
When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Read More »
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) Henry Hathaway, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell
At the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling expedition. Read More »
Tennessee Johnson (1942) William Dieterle, Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Biography, Drama
The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »
The Sea Bat (1930) Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles, Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther, Action, Romance, Thriller
The West Indies island of Portuga is chiefly for sponge diving. Read More »
Camille (1936) George Cukor, Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Drama, Romance
An attractive woman going by the name Marguerite lives in Paris and is a courtesan, kept by the rich aristocrat Baron de Varville. Read More »
The Washington Masquerade (1932) Charles Brabin, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Diane Sinclair, Drama, Romance
Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal melodrama from director Charles Brabin stars Lionel Barrymore as Jefferson Keane Read More »
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Crime, Drama
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Read More »
Dark Delusion (1947) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. Read More »
The Little Colonel (1935) David Butler, Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, Comedy, Family, Musical
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Read More »
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Drama
Dr. Gillespie’s cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She’s also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital. Read More »
The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Drama
Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can’t walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice Read More »
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Drama
Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. Read More »
The Road to Glory (1936) Howard Hawks, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, Drama, War
In 1916, somewhere in the front in France in World War I, the 5th Company in the 2nd Battalion of the 39th Regiment created by Napoleon Bonaparte Read More »