The best John Barrymore’s documentary movies

John Barrymore

John Barrymore

15/02/1882- 29/05/1942
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Barrymore’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Barrymore.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Complicated Women

Complicated Women
7.7/10
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

It's Showtime

It's Showtime
6.2/10
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound
6.1/10
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

The Golden Twenties

The Golden Twenties
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 07/04/1950
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Hollywood My Home Town

Hollywood My Home Town
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 31/12/1965
  • Character: Himself
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

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