* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

In 1997 she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed.

In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert states: " Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm.

Barrymore forged an image as a manipulative teenage seductress, beginning with the film Poison Ivy ( 1992 ), which was a box office failure, but was popular on video and cable.

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.

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 ).

In 1995, Barrymore formed Flower Films, a production company, with business partner Nancy Juvonen.

When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.

In 2010, Barrymore reunited with former partner Justin Long on the set of Going the Distance, directed by Nanette Burstein.

In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Barrymore was engaged to and lived with musician / actor Jamie Walters in 1992 – 93.

In March 2007, former magazine editor Jane Pratt claimed on her Sirius Satellite Radio show that she had a romance with Barrymore in the mid-1990s.

Patinkin and Patti Lupone performed their concert An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin on Broadway for a limited 63-performance run starting November 21, 2011, at the Barrymore Theatre, and which ended on January 13, 2012.

Dick Barrymore, an early action filmmaker akin to Warren Miller, experimented with film cameras and counter weights mounted to a helmet.

Leigh appeared with Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O ' Sullivan in A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ), the first of her films to receive attention in the United States.

In 1926, Vitaphone began making films with music and effects tracks, most notably, in the feature Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

** In New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* When a Man Loves ( 1927 ), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello

* Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that her singing was too awful even for the " realistic singing voice " concept he was going for.

*" Romeo and Juliet " ( in Technicolor ) with John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, with Lionel Barrymore as director

The show returned to Broadway, at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, on 17 March 2011, with closing scheduled on 19 June 2011, again directed by David Leveaux.

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support — Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads.

The play was revived on April 1, 2004 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, again directed by Arthur Penn, featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Dishy, Eric Stoltz, René Auberjonois, Professor Irwin Corey, Elizabeth Berkley, Rachel York, Peter Scolari, and Bronson Pinchot.

Barrymore would go on to pose nude at age 19 for the January 1995 issue of Playboy.

Barrymore at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival

Barrymore still holds the record as the youngest celebrity ever to host the show ( 1982, at age seven ).

Barrymore at the Music and Lyrics London premiere, 2007

In 1991, at the age of 16, Barrymore became engaged to Leland Hayward, grandson of Hollywood producer Leland Hayward.

In 2002, Barrymore began dating The Strokes ' drummer Fabrizio Moretti, soon after they met at a concert.

It opened on December 6, 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.

The following year, Sherrié performed in Ring Of Fire-The Johnny Cash Musical Show at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Lombard was at first intimidated by Barrymore, but the two quickly developed a good working rapport.

The most successful of these was the 1969-70 revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starring Robert Ryan and Bert Convy as Burns and Johnson, which ran 222 performances.

Jim loses his job at Drake, when he is in conflict with the owner ( Lionel Barrymore ), and takes a job with another outfit, flying a very experimental aircraft.

Mike Nichols directed a production that opened on October 26, 1967 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, then transferred to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ), the first ever feature length movie to use a Vitaphone sound-on-film soundtrack.

Barrymore was subpoenaed to testify at Thaw's trial in defense hopes of showing that Nesbit had a history of " immorality.

Barrymore was staying at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake struck.

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.

In 1933, Barrymore appeared as a Jewish attorney in the title role of Counsellor at Law based on Elmer Rice's 1931 play.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, John Barrymore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.

#* Diana Blanche Barrymore ( 1921 – 1960 ), who died at age 38 of an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.

To keep actor Brad Pitt, Bakshi had to replace Drew Barrymore, his original choice for the character of Holli Would, with Kim Basinger, a bigger box office draw at the time.

The 1984 movie Firestarter, based on a King novel, held its world premiere at the Bangor Cinema, with King, Drew Barrymore and Dino de Laurentis in attendance.