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  Sylvia Sidney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 - July 1, 1999) was an American actress.
During the Great Depression Sidney appeared in a string of films, often but not always playing either the girlfriend or the sister of a gangster, appearing opposite such heavyweight screen idols as Joel McCrea, Fredric March and Cary Grant.
Sylvia Sidney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6245 Hollywood Boulevard.
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 Salon Obituary | Sylvia Sidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sylvia Sidney, the waiflike star of the 1930s who specialized in playing victims and got an Oscar nomination in 1973 for a comeback role in ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams,'' died Thursday of throat cancer.
Sidney made her professional theater debut at 16 and was still acting 70 years later, with a brief appearance in the 1988 hit ''Beetlejuice'' and a small role in ''Mars Attacks'' in 1996.
Sidney, a descendant of Russian Jews, was born Sophia Kosow in New York City on Aug. 8, 1910.
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 American National Biography Online
Sidney, Sylvia (8 Aug. 1910-2 July 1999), actress, was born Sophia Kosow in the Bronx, New York, to Victor Kosow, a Jewish immigrant, and Rebecca Saperstein Kosow, who was of Romanian extraction.
Sidney was freed from her Paramount contract in 1935 as well as from Schulberg; in that year she was married to publisher Bennett Cerf for eight months.
Henry Hathaway's The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) put Sidney in the middle of a mountain feud, and for William Wyler she was the long-suffering sister of a juvenile delinquent in the 1937 film version of Sidney Kingsley's play Dead End.
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 Denny Jackson's Sylvia Sidney Page
Sylvia Sidney was born in New York City, in the Bronx borough, on August 8, 1910 with the birth name of Sylvia Kosow.
Sylvia was a shy child and her parents tried to encourage her to be more outgoing and gregarious.
Sylvia later admitted that when she decided to become a stage actress at 15, it wasn't being starstruck that occurred to her, but the expression of beauty that encompassed acting.
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 Variety.com - Stage, screen vet Sylvia Sidney dies at 88
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Sylvia Sidney, whose career on stage and screen spanned seven decades, died Thursday of complications from throat cancer at GothamGotham's Lenox Hill Hospital.
Sidney was born Sophia Kosow on Aug. 8, 1910, in the Bronx.
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 Sylvia Sidney -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sylvia Sidney (August 8, (Click link for more info and facts about 1910) 1910 - July 1, (Click link for more info and facts about 1999) 1999) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A female actor) actress.
In 1927 she was seen by a (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood talent scout and made her first film appearance later that year.
Sylvia Sidney has a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Walk of Fame) Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6245 Hollywood Boulevard.
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 The Tim Burton Collective - Obituaries: Sylvia Sidney
Sidney died at Lennox Hill Hospital of throat cancer, said her Los Angeles agent, Ro Diamond.
Sidney was known by younger generations for her role as Juno, the grumpy social worker from the great beyond in the 1988 film Beetlejuice.
She was shy as a child but was given elocution and dancing lessons from the age of 10 and began acting classes in high school.
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 Sidney, Sylvia --  Encyclopædia Britannica
U.S. poet and novelist Sylvia Plath's best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery and intense focus.
She was little known at the time of her death by suicide, but by the mid-1970s she was considered a major contemporary poet.
U.S. jazz musician Sidney Bechet was known as the master of the soprano saxophone.
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 Henry Ferrini-Who is Sylvia?
For 45 years, Sylvia Sidney (1930-1998) applied lipstick, butterfly lashes, a cascading hairpiece, stepped into a flaming sequined gown and flounced into the spotlight.
Sylvia is a survivor, someone who has lived through the repression of the '50s, the euphoria of the '60s, the bacchanalia of the '70s, and the tragedies of the '80s and '90s.
Unlike many drag queens who, as Sylvia says, "want to be ladies," Sylvia's act is all her own.
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 Boxoffice Magazine [Sneak Preview]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
But Sylvia Sidney--best known to contemporary audiences for her award-winning dramatic turn in the 1985 AIDS-themed telefilm "An Early Frost" and for her hilarious comedic performance as the cranky, overworked gatekeeper of Purgatory in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice"--is one such performer.
   Sidney got her start in films after an illustrious Broadway career that caught Hollywood's attention and landed her a role in 1929's "Through Different Eyes." As a contract player at Adolph Zukor's Paramount under studio head B.P. Schulberg, she became one of the biggest stars of the 1930s.
Paramount was alive with contract talent in those days; an example: for the 1934 romantic comedy "Thirty Day Princess," Sidney was paired with Cary Grant (over whom she received first billing) in a vehicle co-scripted for her by the soon-to-be-legendary Preston Sturges.
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 Amazon.com: You Only Live Once (1937): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
His ladylove Joan (Sylvia Sidney) has waited 3 years for Eddie to be released from prison, and when he sees her waiting outside the prison gates, Eddie is committed to starting a new life with Joan at his side.
Henry Fonda is superb as is Sylvia Sidney with her sad eyes and woeful expressions, genuine and true-to-life.
Sidney is equally good as a woman fighting against friends, family and circumstances to stay with the man she loves.
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 JWA Presents "This Week in History"
Actress Sylvia Sidney was born Sophia Kosow on August 8, 1910.
In most of her films, Sidney was cast as an anguished heroine, a wistful sufferer of injustice.
In addition to acting, Sidney was involved in AIDS research and, after the 1985 death of her son from ALS, in research and advocacy for Lou Gehrig's disease.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Ladies of the Big House : Main
Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Rockliffe Fellowes
Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House.
Shortly after their wedding, young innocents Kathleen (Sylvia Sidney) and Standish (Gene Raymond) are arrested for murder on circumstantial evidence.
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 Amazon.com: Mr. Ace (1946): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Congresswoman Margaret Chase (Sylvia Sidney) is rich and beautiful and used to getting what she wants with few undue delays.
Sidney star rose in the depression-era 1930s, when she was almost invariably cast as the downtrodden girl of the working class.
In any event, Sidney?s discontent with being typecast led to her working more on stage and less on screen in the 40s.
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 ( S ) > Sidney, Sylvia
On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side, Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save her brother from a life of crime.
Henry Fonda is the convict released to a new life (encouraged to go straight, he growls, "I will if they let me"--not a hopeful note); Sylvia Sidney is his new bride, convinced of his essential goodness.
Sylvia Sydney stars as a ruthless congresswoman who clashes with political boss George Raft when she runs for governor.
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 Brazen Hussies - Good Bye ~ Sylvia Sidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
She was 88 and so, perhaps, it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that she is gone...
Sylvia plays the wife of a strange, tormented ~~~ and demented ~~ owner of a small movie house who has a secret life, as a secret anarchist who wants to destroy London.
Sylvia worked for cinematic style wizard Fritz Lang in several films..
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 Sylvia Sidney Current Month TV Schedule
Starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Frank Puglia, Philip Ahn, Marvin Miller, Rhys Williams.
A woman posing as Robin Masters' former teacher (guest star Sylvia Sidney) is actually a KGB agent who is plotting an assassination.
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour, Matthew Boulton, Peter Bull, Sara Allgood, Martita Hunt, Austin Trevor.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: A Woman Alone [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sylvia Sidney stars as the naive American wife of a German spy, the latter using a movie theater as a cover for his terrorist activities.
When he asks his wife's young brother to make a delivery--a package containing a ticking bomb, unknown to the child--a bus delay causes the boy to die in the timed explosion.
Sidney's character murders her spouse in revenge, but as in Hitch's great Blackmail, the deed is obscured by a sympathetic lawman who ultimately shares her secret.
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 Sylvia Sidney @ Filmbug
Sylvia Sidney, whose career spans some seven decades, worked with director Tim Burton previously in Beetlejuice.
Since then, Sidney has appeared in such films as God Told Me To, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Damien: Omen II, Hammett and Used People, and on television in such acclaimed telefilms as Finnegan Begins Again, An Early Frost, Shadow Box and Pals.
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 Encyclopedia: Sylvia Sidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining.
Her swan song was in another film by Burton, Mars Attacks, in which she played a senile old lady whose Slim Whitman music stops an alien invasion from Mars because that particular music makes the Martians' heads explode.
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It's a dilly with an outstanding performance by Tracy as the wrong man: En route to see his fiancee, Katherine (Sylvia Sidney) Joe Wheeler (Spencer Tracy) is arrested as a suspected kidnapper and is jailed pending trial.
This was Lang's favourite American film - and rightfully so: it demonstrates his directorial genius in wasting NOT A FRAME of film, telling his story with sharp cross-cutting between victims and tormentors, while unravelling the mindless and murderous passion of a mob out of control.
Sylvia Sidney is excellent as usual as Katherine: this was her sole role for M-G-M. The film awakened America to what the reality of mob violence means.
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 Sylvia Sidney Movies @ Filmbug
With Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea and Humphrey Bogart
With Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy and Walter Abel
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 Sylvia Sidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sidney Sushman 68, performed as 'Sylvia Sidney'.(Obituary) (The Boston Herald)
Sidney Ames, Fresno eye doctor, dies at 90.(LOCAL NEWS) (The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA))
Sylvia C. Parsons.(Obituaries)(Obituary) (Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL))
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 Sylvia Sidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sylvia Sidney was born in New York City, in the Bronx borough, on August 8...
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 AP Online: Actress Sylvia Sidney Dies at 88@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sylvia Sidney, the waiflike star of the 1930s who specialized in playing victims and got an Oscar nomination in 1973 for a comeback role in ``Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams,'' died Thursday of throat cancer.
Miss Sidney made her professional theater debut at 16 and was still acting 70 years later, with a brief appearance in the 1988 hit ``Beetlejuice'' and a small role in ``Mars Attacks'' in 1996.
She had recently signed a seven-year contract for a recurring role on the TV...
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 HKFlix.com | Browse | sylvia sidney films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, John Halloran, Leonard Strong, James Bell, Marvin Miller, Rhys Williams, Frank Puglia.
Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, John Carradine, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, Bill Macy, Marianna Hill, Joseph Bernard, Robert Gibbons, Al Hansen, Crofton Hardester, John A. Zee.
Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker, Sylvia Sidney, Thomas Babson, Jacquie Botts, Kathy Christopher, Jamie Jamison, Richard Jamison, Liz Jury, Ric Jury, Anne McEnroe, Victor Raider-Wexler, Prentiss Rowe, Rob McClung, Michael J. London.
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 Sylvia Sidney, actress, ", Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, ", dies at 88 July 1 in History
Sylvia Sidney, actress, ", Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, ", dies at 88 July 1 in History
Sylvia Sidney, actress, ", Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, ", dies at 88
I've seen it all, I was here first.
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