On Borrowed Time
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On Borrowed Time is a 1939 film about the role death plays in life, and how humanity cannot live without it. It is adapted from Paul Osborn's 1938 Broadway hit play. The play, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, has been revived twice on Broadway since its original run.
Scene from On Borrowed Time
Lionel Barrymore
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Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
Barrymore c. 1910
Young Lionel with John, Ethel, and their mother (1890)
Barrymore, 1906
Lionel and first wife Doris (in rocking chair) in the 1920 silent film The Devil's Garden.