NINTH GENERATION

831. John Sidney BARRYMORE was born on 15 Feb 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 29 May 1942 in Hollywood, CA, USA. He was an Actor. He was also known as Jack. Spring1898: Jack is enrolled at Kings College School, London. The headmaster is Henry Wace.

He was divorced from Katherine Corri HARRIS in 1916. Katherine Corri HARRIS was born in 1891. She died in 1927. No children in this marriage. John Sidney BARRYMORE and Katherine Corri HARRIS had the following children:

+999 i. Diana Blanche BARRYMORE.

He was married to Blanche OELRICHS in 1920. He was divorced from Blanche OELRICHS in 1928. Blanche OELRICHS was born on 1 Oct 1890 in New York, USA. She died on 5 Nov 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an Actress and Writer. She was also known as Michael Strange. Born in New York, Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs was of a well-to-do and socially prominent family. She was the reigning debutante of Newport society until her marriage in 1910 to Leonard M. Thomas, a rising young diplomat. She soon became a fervent suffragist, wearing a scandalous bobbed haircut.
In 1914, apparently in a sudden and unprecedented inspiration, Blanche Thomas began writing poems, many of them showing the influence of Walt Whitman. Her collection Miscellaneous Poems was published in 1916 under the name Michael Strange. She used that name for all her published and stage work thereafter. A volume titled simply Poems followed in 1919. In 1918 she adapted Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, which was produced successfully on Broadway with John Barrymore in the lead. On her divorce from Thomas in 1919 she began an affair with Barrymore that led to their marriage in 1920. Also that year she wrote Claire de Lune, which was presented in April 1921, starring John and Ethel Barrymore.
From 1925 to 1927 she performed on stage with a summer stock company in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1928, under the management of Elisabeth Marbury, she made the first of several successful lecture tours. She divorced Barrymore in that year and in 1929 married Harrison Tweed. In 1936 she had a poetry and music program on a New York radio station, and it soon became a regular feature on WOR, with eventually a full orchestra accompanying her readings. Her other books included Resurrecting Life (1921), Selected Poems (1928), and Who Tells Me True (1940), an autobiography.

He was married to Dolores COSTELLO (daughter of Maurice COSTELLO) on 24 Nov 1928 in Beverley Hills, CA, USA. He was divorced from Dolores COSTELLO in 1936. Dolores COSTELLO was born on 17 Sep 1903. She died in Mar 1979 in Fallbrook, CA, USA. She was an Actress. She was also known as Delores Costello Barrymore. Starred in many silent movies. John Sidney BARRYMORE and Dolores COSTELLO had the following children:

+1000 i. Delores Ethel Mae BARRYMORE.
+1001 ii. John Blyth BARRYMORE.

He was married to Elaine BARRIE on 8 Nov 1936 in Yuma, Arizona, USA. He was divorced from Elaine BARRIE in 1940.