It's only been forever, but life is rather hectic. I hope my 2 readers are being safe and staying covid-free. As a reminder, Mr. B lost one of his daughters during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Neither virus/viruses are a joke.
So in memory of that terrible event, here's some stuff from 1918 or so featuring Mr. B:
From Laugh, Clown, Laugh, 1918, Broadway, color by me
The Copperhead, Bway, 1918, a huge hit for him.
1918 Vanity Fair portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man
Portrait in character as Milt Shanks from The Copperhead, 1918
I love this... 1918 "whirlwind finish of the Greatest Motion Picture Contest Ever Conducted". Mr. B wasn't actually making films in 1918, so kind of impressive he leapfrogs Jack by FAR.
The University Press of Kentucky has authorized a contract to publish my forthcoming biography of Lionel Barrymore.
ReplyDeleteDo you know who now owns the portrait of Lionel, Doris, and one of their daughters, painted in Paris in 1909 by Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, called "Family Group" or "Allegory in Honor of a Barrymore Child"?
If not, do you know what issue of the New York Times published the photo of the painting that you scanned for your website?