Happy Birthday, Lionel Barrymore: Actor, Artist, Novelist…

…director, composer, screenwriter, and inventor. His novel, Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral Tale, was published in 1953. I read it as a high schooler (in the 1990s). Why, yes, I was that teenager. Here is Mr. Barrymore as a younger man:

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore: Born 28 April 1878.

[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Émile Zola/Buddy Ebsen

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)

Buddy Ebsen, 1936

Buddy Ebsen, 1936. He was born on 2 April 1908.

Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen in Captain January (1936).

Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen in Captain January (1936).