John Barrymore Movies

Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who...

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...

A young American broker at large in London.

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young...

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

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'.