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The Great Profile

1940, Movie, NR, 79 mins

The Great Profile: Review

Art imitates life as Barrymore spoofs himself while playing a character who is a thinly-veiled version of the way he was living at the time. He's a drunken ham who gets thrown off a film and goes astray on a three-day drunk. Now he finds a lousy play and secures some backers for it, takes it to Chicago and opens it. Act One is a bust, and Barrymore decides that he can ad-lib a better Act Two than what was written. So he juices up during the intermission, and the second act i... read more leave a comment