Susan King profiled The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family, the exhibition running through July 31 in the David L. Wolper Center in Doheny Library. Her article appears in today's Los Angeles Times.
She sketches the Barrymore family's prominence in theatre and film history and explains the origins of the items on display. She writes,
"The...show features some 70 matted photographs with text, plus letters, albums, diaries and magazines. The treasure trove of photographs came from the original negatives John Drew Barrymore had found in a suitcase in the barn of his mother's Fallbrook avocado ranch."
Librarians Sandy Garcia-Myers and Steve Hanson worked closely with Barrymore family archivist Carol Hoffman to mount the exhibition.
Lionel Barrymore donates his scripts to the USC Libraries shortly before his death in 1954. With Barrymore are Maynard Smith of the department of cinema, University Librarian Hazel Rea, and USC President Fred Fagg. Photo from the University Archive.