Sylvia sydney biography
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Sylvia Sidney’s Pre-Code Filmography
Sylvia Sidney went to work on the stage at 17 to help herself overcome shyness, and she ended up getting a lot more than that– including a career that would span seven decades. She started in 1929, and her career immediately went into an upswing as she proved herself adept at emotional parts and even light comedy on occasion. City Streets, an early Rouben Mammoulian film, is a highlight, as are her emotional gymnastics in Merrily We Go to Hell.
She ascended further to fame in the mid to late 30s including starring alongside Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy. She earned a reputation of being difficult and vanished from the screen through most of the early 40s, returning to play bit and supporting parts on film, theater and television over the next 50 years. She made cameos in several Tim Burton movies, and she passed away in 1999.
- Five Minutes from the Station (1930)
- City Streets (1931)
- An American Tragedy (1931)
- Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
- Street Scene (1931)
- Ladies of the Big House (1931)
- The Miracle Man (1932)
- Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
- Make Me a Star (1932)
- Madame Butterfly (1932)
- Pick-up (1933)
- Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
- Good Dame (1934)
- Thirty Day Princess (1934)
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Biography
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Filmography
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- Sabotage (1936) — cast: Mrs. Verloc (as Sylvia Sydney)
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born 08/Aug/1910 The Borough, New Royalty died 01/Jul/1999 New Royalty City, Fresh York
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Sylvia Sidney
American actress (1910–1999)
Sylvia Sidney | |
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Sidney c. 1940s | |
| Born | Sophia Kosow (1910-08-08)August 8, 1910 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 1, 1999(1999-07-01) (aged 88) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1925–1998 |
| Spouses | Bennett Cerf (m. 1935; div. 1936)Luther Adler (m. 1938; div. 1946)Carleton Alsop (m. 1947; div. 1951) |
| Children | 1 |
Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow;[1] August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Early life
[edit]Sidney was born Sophia Kosow in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and