Elaine Barrie (born Elaine Jacobs; July 16, 1915 â€" March 1, 2003)
was an American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway
play. She was the fourth, and last, wife of actor John
Barrymore.Barrie was the daughter of traveling salesman Louis Jacobs.
She claimed to have fallen in love with Barrymore in 1931, when she
was 16, after seeing his film, the classic Svengali.[citation needed]
She met him when, while a sophomore at Hunter College, she visited his
hospital room on the pretense of needing to interview a celebrity for
a class assignment. They married in 1936 at Yuma, Arizona, but the
marriage was a rocky one and they finally divorced in 1940.In 1937,
shortly before her final divorce, she was sued by E. K. Nadel to
prevent her from appearing in Dwain Esper's How to Undress in Front of
Your Husband, on the grounds that the title had been copyrighted by
Sherill C. Coben.
was an American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway
play. She was the fourth, and last, wife of actor John
Barrymore.Barrie was the daughter of traveling salesman Louis Jacobs.
She claimed to have fallen in love with Barrymore in 1931, when she
was 16, after seeing his film, the classic Svengali.[citation needed]
She met him when, while a sophomore at Hunter College, she visited his
hospital room on the pretense of needing to interview a celebrity for
a class assignment. They married in 1936 at Yuma, Arizona, but the
marriage was a rocky one and they finally divorced in 1940.In 1937,
shortly before her final divorce, she was sued by E. K. Nadel to
prevent her from appearing in Dwain Esper's How to Undress in Front of
Your Husband, on the grounds that the title had been copyrighted by
Sherill C. Coben.
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