"He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy …"

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

"Orson Welles? What are they?"

"I know that back in the twenties everyone who saw it judged John Barrymore's Hamlet to be unforgettable. Great though…"

"Mr. [John] Barrymore’s smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two o…"

"The death of John Barrymore made us think again for a minute of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They were very different men: a …"

"Sterben? Ich würde ablehnen, mein Freund. Kein Barrymore würde es zulassen, dass ihm eine solch profane Sache passiert."

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"• Let the future historian, if he will, add beauty of expression and the charm of polished diction to this plain, unp…"