Lionel Barrymore's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. The birth-card coordinate for April 28 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1932 Best Actor — A Free Soul win.

Academy Award record

• 1932 Best Actor — A Free Soul

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Lionel Barrymore's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Lionel Barrymore. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

Live 6 of Clubs meaning page

Lionel Barrymore in the public record

He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lionel Barrymore (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 6♣, 2♦, 8♠, Q♥, 9♣, 10♠, 6♠, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 5♣, 3♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth).
2. He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore and the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, among other members of the Barrymore family.
3. He attended private schools as a child, including the Art Students League of New York.
4. While raised a Roman Catholic, Barrymore attended the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia.

Other winners with this card

• John Wayne — 1970 Best Actor — True Grit
• Louise Fletcher — 1976 Best Actress — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Paul Lukas — 1944 Best Actor — Watch on the Rhine

FAQ

What is Lionel Barrymore's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. April 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Lionel Barrymore's dates come from?

Birth date 1878-04-28 is the day-precision date on Lionel Barrymore's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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