Ethel Barrymore Vintage Biker Print - Cushman Model 39 Delivery Scooter - Long Before Drew Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore Vintage Biker Print - Cushman Model 39 Delivery Scooter - Long Before Drew BarrymoreTreasures from THE FILM & THEATER COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us. Go, Ethel, GO! What a gal! Ethel Barrymore was and remains one of the greatest actresses in American theater history. She made just a handful of films in

Treasures from THE FILM & THEATER COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

Go, Ethel, GO!

What a gal! Ethel Barrymore was and remains one of the greatest actresses in American theater history. She made just a handful of films in her later years and we're lucky to have those as a record of her in action.

The Barrymore family tree begins in Philadelphia, heads to New York and Hollywood, and continues with the career of Drew Barrymore. John Barrymore. Lionel Barrymore. John Drew, and a whole crew of others important to American theater history.

For me personally, there was a real whoop of laughter when I first found this still. I've collected vintage scooters since the late 70s, and through my endless quest for information about Maude Adams I've built up quite a collection of material related to her friend and contemporary, Ethel Barrymore!

I've taken this to shows where a surprising range of people like it for all sorts of reasons. Cushman and scooter people, theater history buffs, and people who own or are members of a local Buy Local sort of vegetable market. It just has that feel to it. One military vehicle collector told me he was going to put it right in the middle of all his wall mounted memorabilia, mostly manly man stuff. "It's military surplus, ain't it?" 

Ethel would've loved that!

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