Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

Birthday: 1910-08-09

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA

Biography: Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).

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Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if...

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Man on the Ledge
Man on the Ledge

Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel mor...

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Damien - Omen II
Damien - Omen II

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we...

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God Told Me To
God Told Me To

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'G...

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Raid on Entebbe
Raid on Entebbe

Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron...

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Sabotage
Sabotage

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly...

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A Small Killing
A Small Killing

A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug con...

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Dead End
Dead End

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin...

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Andre's Mother
Andre's Mother

Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Kat...

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City Streets
City Streets

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging....

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Fury
Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

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Behind the High Wall
Behind the High Wall

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's d...

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You and Me
You and Me

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in...

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Violent Saturday
Violent Saturday

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, whi...

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Snowbeast
Snowbeast

A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from th...

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Madame Butterfly
Madame Butterfly

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanes...

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You Only Live Once
You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre...

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Merrily We Go to Hell
Merrily We Go to Hell

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prenti...

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Thirty Day Princess
Thirty Day Princess

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contr...

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Love from a Stranger
Love from a Stranger

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides t...

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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her t...

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An Early Frost
An Early Frost

Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mo...

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Blood on the Sun
Blood on the Sun

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domin...

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans....

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The Wagons Roll at Night
The Wagons Roll at Night

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V...

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An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder....

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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns, Fugitive

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangs...

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Confessions of a Co-Ed
Confessions of a Co-Ed

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying...

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Street Scene
Street Scene

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives...

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Les Miserables
Les Miserables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

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Ladies of the Big House
Ladies of the Big House

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder...

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Pick-up
Pick-up

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caug...

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Behold My Wife!
Behold My Wife!

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, ...

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Siege
Siege

A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. Aft...

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Good Dame
Good Dame

A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up w...

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Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series o...

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One Third of a Nation
One Third of a Nation

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's resi...

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Accent on Youth
Accent on Youth

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when he...

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Pals
Pals

Two retired fishing buddies stumble on an unmarked suitcase filled with three million dollars in cas...

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The Searching Wind
The Searching Wind

Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowma...

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The Secret Night Caller
The Secret Night Caller

A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephon...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Going Hollywood: The '30s

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...

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The Helen Morgan Story
The Helen Morgan Story

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate spea...

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The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...

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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for ...

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The Miracle Man
The Miracle Man

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...

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The Brass Ring
The Brass Ring

A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses...

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Five Minutes from the Station
Five Minutes from the Station

When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will ...

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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...

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Night of 100 Stars III
Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New Y...

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Used People
Used People

At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an ...

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No Time at All
No Time at All

An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from r...

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Mr. Ace
Mr. Ace

A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election....

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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and inter...

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F.D.R.: The Last Year
F.D.R.: The Last Year

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...

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Copkiller
Copkiller

A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his v...

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Winner Take All
Winner Take All

The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling....

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Breakdowns of 1941
Breakdowns of 1941

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....

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The Witching of Ben Wagner
The Witching of Ben Wagner

A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumour...

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Hammett
Hammett

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...

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Death at Love House
Death at Love House

Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the lo...

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Thru Different Eyes
Thru Different Eyes

Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body wa...

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The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box

Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with th...

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Broadway Nights
Broadway Nights

Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producer...

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Finnegan Begin Again
Finnegan Begin Again

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

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Make Me a Star
Make Me a Star

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. ...

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The Gossip Columnist
The Gossip Columnist

New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on am...

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Having It All
Having It All

Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California....

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Come Along with Me
Come Along with Me

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...

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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner

This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to man...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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The Sorrows of Satan
The Sorrows of Satan

Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a wr...

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