Father of John Barrymore, immigrated to the United States in 1875 and appeared in Augustin Daly's play Under the Gaslight. With his wife, Georgianna D...
If Benjamin Bannaker’s grandmother, a lowly milkmaid, had not been educated to read, during a time when women were not educated, she would not have ...
Best known as a stage actress, she appeared in The Corn Is Green (1940–42) and has a Broadway theater named in her honor. She won an Academy Award f...