Playmates

What a sad bow-out for John Barrymore. It was his final film and did nothing to revere the memory of a man who had once been one of the finest classical stage actors in the U.S. Barrymore plays himself, a has-been, washed-up actor managed by Kelly, who gets him to teach Shakespeare to Kay Kyser on the off chance that this will help Barrymore's flagging career get back in gear. There's to be a Bard Festival on a huge estate on Long Island owned by Fleming and Cleveland. Fleming is taken by the actor and her husband is a well-to-do man who just might sponsor a radio show. Barrymore doesn't want to teach Kyser how to speak the lines and eventually puts some alum in th...