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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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 401
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780689108143
  • Characters
  • John Barrymore
  • Genres
  • biography
  • Release date
  • 1977