John Drew Barrymore

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Albert Zugsmith's High School Confidential! (1958). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

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Big Night, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Make A Wish Downtrodden from the opening frame, still-teenaged John Barrymore Jr. as Georgie, bullied then consoled by bartender Flanagan (Howland Chamberlin) and his dad, Preston Foster, in The Big Night, 1951, screenplay by director Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin, from his novel, with uncredited contributions from Ring Lardner Jr. and Hugo Butler.

Big Night, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Not Fighting Back Fuming after watching his bartender dad, whom he idolizes, willingly take a beating from a newspaper columnist named Judge, teen Georgie (John Barrymore Jr.) visits the store next door, hearing from a cop (Myron Healey), the uncredited shopkeeper and wife, also juggling a baby and a revolver, in director Joseph Losey’s The Big Night, 1951.

Big Night, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Not That Kind Of Doctor Joseph Losey directs John Barrymore Jr. as teen Georgie, at a prize-fight, who doesn’t realize he got conned out of the money he got for his father’s ticket, counseled by Cooper (Philip Bourneuf), who bought the ticket, aiming to chase columnist Judge (Howard St. John) who beat up the father earlier that night, in The Big Night, 1951.

While The City Sleeps (1956) -- (Movie Clip) New York City, Tonight Before the credits, John Drew Barrymore, for now just a delivery guy, at the apartment of a victim (Sandy White), opening Fritz Lang's While The City Sleeps, 1956, starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino and many more.

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John Barrymore

Father

Actor.

Dolores Costello

Mother

Actor. Divorced John Sr. c. 1934.

Diana Blanche Barrymore

Half-Sister

Actor. Born in 1920; died in 1960.

Dolores Ethel Barrymore

Sister

Born in 1930.

John Blyth Barrymore

Son

Born in 1954; mother, Cara Williams.

Blyth Dolores Barrymore

Daughter

Born in 1962; mother, Gabriella Palazzoli.

Jessica Barrymore

Daughter

Mother, Nina Wayne.

Drew Barrymore

Daughter

Actor. Born in February 1975; mother, Ildiko Jaid.

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Cara Williams

Wife

Actor. Divorced; mother of John Blyth Barrymore.

Gabriella Palazzoli

Wife

Divorced; mother of Blyth Dolores Barrymore.

Nina Wayne

Wife

Divorced; mother of Jessica Barrymore.

Ildilko Jaid

Wife

Actor. Divorced c. 1977; mother of Drew Barrymore.

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