Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew were an American comedy team on stage and screen.

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Biography

Sidney Drew and Lucile McVey (the second Mrs. Sidney Drew) in 1917

Sidney Drew (August 28, 1863 – April 9, 1919), or Mr. Sidney Drew as he was usually billed, was an uncle of actors Lionel, Ethel & John Barrymore. His origins have been the subject of much speculation. Sidney's mother Mrs. Louisa Drew said she adopted him not long after the death of her husband John Drew, Sr. in 1862. Researchers have speculated that Sidney was Mrs. Drew's biological child either from her late husband or from a love affair. It was noticed that she disappeared for some time to the country before returning to Philadelphia with baby Sidney. John Barrymore always said Sidney looked too much like Grandmother Louisa to be anyone else's child.[citation needed]

Sidney Drew had been a light-hearted leading man along with his wife, Gladys Rankin (ca. 1874 – January 9, 1914), the first Mrs. Sidney Drew. They entered films as a team with the old Kalem Company in 1911, but achieved greater success after their switch to Vitagraph in 1913. Gladys Rankin Drew died later that year from undisclosed causes. Sidney Drew was briefly paired with Clara Kimball Young, with whom Drew starred in the two-reel melodrama satire Goodness Gracious; or, Movies as they Shouldn't Be (1914) directed by Clara's husband James Young.[citation needed]

He remarried to Lucile McVey (1890–1925), born in Sedalia, Missouri,[1] a Vitagraph scriptwriter who briefly went under the name Jane Morrow. Sidney Drew added his new wife to his one-reel comedies, acknowledging McVey as both a writer and co-director. As a comedy team, known as Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, the team perfected the situation comedy style that the team of John Bunny and Flora Finch started. Their style of comedy was usually gentle satire on married life, but also poked fun at the world of show business. Sidney took sole credit as director for two five-reel features at Vitagraph, the groundbreaking cross-gender comedy A Florida Enchantment (1914), in which Edith Storey played the leading female role, and the drama Playing Dead (1915), the Drews' only attempt at a "serious" film.[citation needed]

In 1916, the popular team was lured to Louis B. Mayer's newly founded Metro company, where they continued to dominate in the field of marital comedy. During World War I, Sidney Drew's son, actor-director S. Rankin Drew, was killed in action. Drew never recovered from the loss. The team left Metro for personal appearances but was signed to V.B.K.. Sidney Drew died suddenly on April 9, 1919. Lucile McVey Drew died in 1925 from cancer, aged 35.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Find-a-Grave profile for Lucile, Mrs. Sidney Drew
  2. ^ Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame presumably refers to the second Mrs. Drew, Lucile Drew.

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