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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 Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore 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 joined Vitagraph where he worked as an actor and director. After his wife's death in 1914, he married Lucille McVey, the second Mrs. Sidney Drew, 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, but he enlisted in the army in World War I and was killed when his plane was shot down over France. Sidney never got over his only child's death, and died a year later.

Son of Louisa Drew. Brother of Georgiana Barrymore. Uncle of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000858/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">John Barrymore</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000859/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Lionel Barrymore</a>, and
<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000856/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Ethel Barrymore</a>. Great-granduncle of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000106/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Drew Barrymore</a>. Father of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0237710/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">S. Rankin Drew</a>.

Brother of stage actor John Drew Jr. [1853-1927]. His brother refused
all film offers even though most of the family were active in the
movies.

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