Bruce Campbell Adamson PO
Box 3511, Santa Cruz, CA, 95063
CLICK HERE FOR Gypsy STORE from actual painting from 1800s that Adamson had restored.
The B
arrymore,
Costello & Drew Family website at barrymorefamily.com
CLICK HERE FOR RUFUS EASTON Store lots of Goodies from actual painting.
The Barrymore family has long
fascinated me, and I decided to do some genealogical research
on them as well. I decided to make my research available to others
who are interested, and had a website made for that purpose.
While at the post office Adamson obtained the Barrymore postage
stamp poster from post office. Which 
is up for sale. Adamson on Fred Robert's
Ranch in Malibu, CA.
Adamson's cousin Robert Easton was Drew's dialogue coach for films Long Island Lolita and Everafter, both were great films. Rufus Easton store above link Ethel Barrymore Store Below Link.
CLICK
HERE FOR Ethel Barrymore "It Girl" Store. 1914 photo
designed in 2004
As I was working, the project expanded to encompass the Drew, Blyth, Costello and Lane families as well - all of them actors! Yet there was a completely entire different Barrymore family in England that expired in the early 1820s.
Adamson came across jewelry belonging to Dolores Costello. Adamson gave the jewelry to Robert Easton who was suppose to give it to Drew Barrymore. I believed that a granddaughter of Dolores Costello would be thrilled to have the items.
On St. Patrick's day in 2002 it was a Sunday and there was no one on the road a warm day when I went to Beverly Hills to run up and down Sunset Blvd before aunt Gretchen wokeup. I crossed paths with Drew Barrymore near the Beverly Hills Hotel. I crossed the street and was a good block behind her. As I was walking I found a lucky $20.00 bill, where Drew had walked. Click to read more from Robert Easton's letter;
When John Barrymore II,
was a live I would buy him KFC chicken from the Malibu Kentucky
Fried Chicken, my childhood friend Les Wiggins was the owner..
I would also buy JB2 Starbucks coffee who was living in a small
but nice home that Drew paid for. There were also several nurses.
JB2 would sometimes ask me to lite his pipe, I did not know he
had cancer. The next time I saw Drew was at this house in a long
black limosine, I asked her "do you like older men with
experience?" She responded with a smirk "Not Civil
War Experience." That was a shock but pretty funny.
Bruce's stores designed 18 years ago. John Barrymore as St. Assisi below link.
CLICK HERE FOR JOHN BARRYMORE Store as St. Francis Assisi.
Here are a few key takeaways
from the text you provided:
The Acting Families
The Foundation: The American acting dynasty began with Louisa
Lane (later Mrs. John Drew), who arrived in the US in 1827. Her
marriage to John Drew Sr. is credited as the starting point for
the family as we know it.
The Patriarch: Maurice Barrymore (aka Herbert A. C. Blythe)
is the patriarch of the American Barrymore family.
The Three Barrymores: The famous siblings Ethel, John, and
Lionel Barrymore acted together only once, in the film Rasputin
and the Empress (1933).
Connections to The Wizard of Oz: Both Billie Burke (who starred
with John Drew in "My Wife" in 1907 and was best known
as Glinda the Good Witch) and Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz)
worked closely with the Barrymores.
Historical Tidbits
The San Francisco Earthquake: Maurice Barrymore's dying words
in 1905, paraphrased as "Don't go to San Francisco haven't
you heard it has fallen into the sea," eerily preceded the
major 1906 earthquake.
John Wilkes Booth: Mrs. John Drew acted with Booth (as Macbeth
to her Lady Macbeth) in a farewell performance in 1863.
Early Photography: A photograph of Mrs. John Drew from the
1840s is noted as being from near the invention of photography
in 1839.
Saint Francis Assisi: John Barrymore portrayed the saint
whom San Francisco is named after in 1917.
¨ Hollywood Connections
The Three Stooges: Maurice Costello, Dolores Costello's father,
is credited with introducing Moe Howard to acting, leading to
the creation of The Three Stooges.
Steven Spielberg: The creator, Adamson, grew up with Pat
Hale, whose father Richard Hale acted in Steven Spielberg's first
film he would direct in 1969. Spielberg later became Drew Barrymore's
godfather.
My Friends, Ruby and the Emeralds have produced a great CD, music that is fit to be in a film. Olivia Newton John has nothing on Ruby and the lyrics of Tim McHargue. My favorites are Receptive, TECH-NO-FEAR , Black Cat and You Can't Dance with a Butterfly. The songs would be great for film. See Ruby and the Emeralds. click here.
What is remarkable is that Drew Barrymore won a lawsuit Drew Barrymore vs. Barrymore and was legal emancipated at age 14 years of age. Someone sent me the photo of Drew wearing a tie in the US mail. Favorite film was "No Place to Hide" produced by CIA and O.J. Simpson kills two men for Drew an injured football player confined to a wheelchair. I enjoyed the film.
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