John Barrymore Movies

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...

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three...

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...

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

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

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer...

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his...

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...

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

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

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's...

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

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's...

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

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

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star...

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed...