down  version of the play was Ethel Barrymore (qv), who complained that  it wasnt as faithful as the stage version produced on Broadway in  1922, in which her brother John Barrymore (I) (qv) played Hamlet.  Ethel Barrymore was the presenter of the Best Picture Oscar at the  Academy Awards that year and was visibly shaken when she read out  Oliviers name as the winner.