Sidney White Drew

1863 - 1919  (55 years)    Has 3 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Sidney White Drew
  Birth	28 Aug 1863	New York, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	USA
  actor
  Death	9 Apr 1919	New York, New York, USA
  Person ID	I372862	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2013

  
  

  Mother	Louisa Lane,   b. 10 Jan 1820   d. 31 Aug 1897 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F367462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Gladys Rankin   d. 9 Jan 1914
  Marriage	Abt 1892
  Children	1. S. Rankin Drew,   b. 1892   d. 19 May 1918, France (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F147785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 2	Lucile McVey
  Marriage	1914
  Family ID	F147786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

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  		Birth - 28 Aug 1863 - New York, New York, USA Prominent People - actor - - USA Death - 9 Apr 1919 - New York, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  His mother claimed he was adopted, perhaps because her husband had been away touring for several years before Sidney's birth and was dead before the great event took place. Ethel, Lionel, and John Barrymore, his niece and nephews, insisted he looked too much like "Mummum" to have been anybody else's child. But the mystery continues--there's a rumor he was born at sea (!) and even his date of birth is in doubt. The young Barrymores were largely raised by Sidney's mother (their maternal grandmother), and Uncle Googan, as they called Sidney, was often about the place during their childhood. The date of his first marriage is also unknown, but sometime before 1892 he wed Gladys Rankin, also from a famous acting clan. They were billed as Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, played vaudeville and toured in marital comedies. If the material turned out to be bad, Mrs. Drew would rewrite it or come up with a better script. Later they went to Hollywood where he worked as an actor and director. After his wife's death in 1914, he married Mrs. Sidney Drew (II), a vivacious 24-year-old writer he had met on the Vitagraph lot where they both worked. His son, S. Rankin Drew, also acted in films and was thought a promising director when Sidney never got over his only child's death, and died a year later. Wikipedia