Elaine Barrie was an American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway play. She was legendary actor John Barrymore

John Barrymore

John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

's fourth, and last, wife.

Barrie claimed to have fallen in love with Barrymore in 1931, when she was 16, after seeing his film, the classic Svengali

Svengali

Svengali is a fictional character of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby. Svengali "would either fawn or bully and could be grossly impertinent. He had a kind of cynical humour that was more offensive than amusing and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place...

. They did marry five years later, but the marriage was a rocky one and they divorced in 1940.

She appeared in one of her husband's films and made two shorts (one of which, How to Undress in Front of Your Husband; 1937), was made by low-rent exploitation legend Dwain Esper

Dwain Esper

Dwain Esper was an American director and producer of exploitation films . Esper died in 1982. He and Hildegarde had two children, Dwain, Jr...

) capitalizing on her status as Barrymore's wife. She also co-starred with Barrymore on Broadway and in several radio dramas.

After the divorce Barrie wrote a book about her life with Barrymore, All My Sins Remembered, and took a job at a New York brokerage firm.

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