In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $ 1 million to the cause.

A few months later, Mr. Henry F. Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ), a slumlord and majority shareholder in the Building and Loan, tries to persuade the board of directors to stop providing home loans for the working poor.

Twenty years later, Barrymore finally confessed to his deception, but by then, he was so famous that the world merely smiled indulgently at his admission.

Barrymore was also portrayed by Christopher Plummer ( who was a friend of Diana Barrymore ) in the 1996 two-man show Barrymore, later filmed in 2012 and by Errol Flynn in the 1958 biographical film about Diana entitled Too Much, Too Soon.

Barrymore gave Dressler some positive advice about furthering her career and she later acknowledged his help.

Barrymore's marriage to Colt was a precarious one from the start, with Barrymore filing divorce papers as early in the marriage as 1911, much to Colt's surprise, and later recanted by Barrymore as a misunderstanding by the press.

She later appeared in the unauthorized biography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 2002 ), part of an ensemble cast that included Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts.

Their secret engagement ended largely because of the Langhankes ' interference and Astor's inability to escape their heavy-handed authority, but also because Barrymore became involved with Astor's fellow WAMPAS Baby Star Dolores Costello, whom he later married.

In common with another major star of British TV light entertainment at that time, Michael Barrymore, personal problems would later overshadow his career, leading to a reduced profile.

Browning later remade the film, with some changes to the plot, as Mark of the Vampire ( Lionel Barrymore plays the police inspector and Bela Lugosi portrays the " vampire ").

She also starred in feature films such as Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy ( featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels ) and Permanent Midnight.

It opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, ( later transferring to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre ) on October 25, 1962 and closed on May 18, 1963 after 222 performances and 3 previews.

Doyle was assigned to write the episode based on actress Drew Barrymore's desire to appear in a Simpsons episode ; Barrymore instead appeared in a later episode and the guest role of this episode was given to Posey.

She later played the young Marilyn Monroe in the TV miniseries Blonde, Riding in Cars with Boys alongside Drew Barrymore, and Don't Say a Word alongside Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy, both in 2001.

Later that year she landed a role opposite John Barrymore in The Great Profile, a part she later noted as one of her favorites.

Now, more than 20 years later, Herzlinger combines his passions for filmmaking and Drew Barrymore to document his quest for a date with the actress.

In later episodes, the character was revamped as the host of a public access television show, " This and That with Rusty ", featuring interviews with celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, David Boreanaz, and Mandy Moore.

In 1940 he played opposite Ethel Barrymore in The Corn is Green and later with Eva Le Gallienne and was signed to play the role in Hollywood opposite Bette Davis, but entered the army during World War II.

Summing up Barrymore's appeal, Roger Ebert, in his review of 50 First Dates, described Barrymore as having a " smiling, coy sincerity ," describing the film as " ingratiating and lovable.

Often described as shy, Adams was referred to by Ethel Barrymore as the " original ' I want to be alone ' woman ".

Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Barrymore with Corey Feldman at the 61st Academy Awards, March 29, 1989 In her late teens, her rebelliousness played itself out on screen and in print.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

A semi-autobiographical story of her life was depicted in Too Much, Too Soon, starring Errol Flynn as John Barrymore

He was also portrayed ( by Lionel Barrymore ) as a villain and fanatic in Tennessee Johnson, the 1942 MGM film about the life of President Andrew Johnson.

He was born in Barrymore, County Cork and spent much of his adult life in Limerick, receiving the patronage of both Irish and Anglo-Irish landowners.

Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane ( Whoopi Goldberg ), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend and getting fired ; Holly ( Drew Barrymore ), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend ; and Robin ( Mary-Louise Parker ), an uptight real estate agent who has her own secrets ( namely being infected with HIV ).

In the 1970s her house was inundated in a flash flood which destroyed a lot of her property and memorabilia from her movie career and life with John Barrymore.

After the divorce Barrie wrote a book about her life with Barrymore, All My Sins Remembered, and took a job at a New York brokerage firm.

* On the February 12, 2007 broadcast of the Late Show with David Letterman, Drew Barrymore mentioned her Saturn return as the reason for some of the changes in her life.

Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Churchill reportedly proposed to her in 1900 ; however, Barrymore mentions no such thing in her autobiography, Memories.

Barrymore chronicled their bouts with alcoholism in her 1957 autobiography, Too Much, Too Soon, which she dedicated to him.

* Too Much, Too Soon, an autobiography by actress Diana Barrymore

Fox Film Corporation put her under contract to appear in The Little Colonel ( 1935 ), with Shirley Temple, Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and Lionel Barrymore.

* Grey Gardens, the 2009 Emmy Award-winning made-for-television movie for HBO, starred Jessica Lange as " Big Edie " and Drew Barrymore as " Little Edie ," with Jeanne Tripplehorn portraying Jacqueline Kennedy.

2009: Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens as Little Edie

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House ; Sequoia ; Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong ; The Ghost Goes West, opposite Robert Donat ; and Rasputin and the Empress, with the Barrymore siblings ( John, Ethel, and Lionel ) in the only movie they all made together.