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Barrymore

Speech parts

1. Barrymore - Noun

2. Barrymore - Proper noun

Meaning

United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)

United States actor; husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)

United States actress; daughter of John Drew and wife of Maurice Barrymore; mother of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1854-1893)

United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1878-1954)

United States actress; daughter of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1879-1959)

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Examples

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. Lillian Gish

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barrymore

Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore. John Barrymore

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. Drew Barrymore

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her. Meg White

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. Dom DeLuise

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