Barrymore appeared in her first feature motion picture, "The Nightingale", in 1914. Members of her family were already in pictures; uncle Sidney Drew, his wife Gladys Rankin, and Lionel had entered films in 1911 and John made his first feature in 1913 after having debuted in Lubin short films in 1912. She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919, most of them for the Metro Pictures studio. Most of these pictures were made on the East Coast, as her Broadway career and children came first. A few of her silent films have survived: for example, one reel from "The Awakening of Helena Richie" (1916) which survives at the Library of Congress, and "The Call of Her People" (1917) held at the George Eastman House.