John Barrymore

Book Review: The Great Profile — Without the Myths

August 14, 2026
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Terry Chester Shulman’s biography offers a vivid, corrective account of John Barrymore’s artistic greatness, private devastations, and spectacular decline.

Book Review: Barrymore Shadows — “Too Fast, Too Short” Does Justice to the Life of a Nepo Orphan

September 30, 2025
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Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen starlet.

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