Damned in Paradise: The Life of John Barrymore
The central mystery of the life of John Barrymore is his epic self-destruction. Barrymore, it would seem, willed, embraced the instruments of his own fall. Endowed with rare physical grace and beauty, surpassing brilliant as both comedian and tragedian, wit, boonfellow, lover, a caricaturist of no mean ability, art collector, scholar, yachtsman, sportsman, he stood for a time at the pinnacle of both his professional and social community. But Barrymore chose to walk a steeply graded downward path — the process had begun even as his fame soared — into debasement and disintegration.
- Author
- John Kobler
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780689108143
- Characters
- John Barrymore
- Genres
- biography
- Release date
- 1977
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