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Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow; August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American actress of stage, screen and film, who rose to prominence in the 1930s appearing in numerous crime dramas.
Sidney, born Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, was the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman. Her parents divorced by 1915, and she was adopted by her stepfather, Sigmund Sidney, a dentist. Her mother became a dressmaker and renamed herself Beatrice Sidney. Now using the surname Sidney, she became an actress at the age of fifteen as a way of overcoming shyness. As a student of the Theater Guild's School for Acting, Sidney appeared in several of their productions during the 1920s and earned praise from theater critics. In 1926, she was seen by a Hollywood talent scout and made her first film appearance later that year.
During the Depression, Sidney appeared in a string of films, often playing the girlfriend or the sister of a gangster. She appeared opposite such heavyweight screen idols as Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft and Cary Grant. Among her films from this period were: An American Tragedy, City Streets and Street Scene (all 1931), Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage and Fritz Lang's Fury (both 1936), You Only Live Once, Dead End (both 1937) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, an early three-strip Technicolor film. It was during this period that she developed a reputation for being difficult to work with.
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in movies such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and White Heat (1949) and was even typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.Orson Welles said of Cagney, "[he was] maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera", and Stanley Kubrick considered him to be one of the best actors of all time.
In his first professional acting performance, Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the 1919 revue Every Sailor. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925. He secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. After rave reviews, Warner Bros. signed him for an initial $500-a-week, three-week contract to reprise his role; this was quickly extended to a seven-year contract.
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Cranky legend Sylvia Sidney is interviewed about her long career at the National Arts Club in NYC
To actress Sylvia Sidney (1910 - 1999). Born in the Bronx, New York into a Russian Jewish family she would come to Hollywood in the 1920s. By the 1930s, Sylvia Sidney was playing dramatic roles and was famous for her large teary eyes. As she once said, "Paramount paid me by the tear". In the course of her career, she co-starred opposite such actors as Henry Fonda, George Raft, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Frederic March. In the 1930s, she starred in such movies as "City Streets" (1931), "Merrily We go to Hell" (1932), "Madame Butterfly" (1932), "Pick-Up" (1933), "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), and "Fury" (1936). She worked for eight decades in film and she was a seasoned veteran by the time she starred in such films as "Damien: The Omen II" (1978), "Beetlejuice" (1988...
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Early scene from the Rouben Mamoulian film City Streets (1931) with Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
"Blood on the Sun" is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan's plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. Wh...
This is my first tribute to the fabulous Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999), one of the best actresses ever. She was such a great talent, but sadly typecast very soon during her heyday (the '30s), having to play -according to her own words- "... the sister who was bringing up the gangster...then the mother of the gangster...and they always had me ironing somebody's shirt". However, she was a real beauty and had what I consider a MAGICAL and EXQUISITE face. Fortunately, the beauty and the glamour she was able to display are still intact in most of her performances -absolutely unforgettable all of them- even when it was not intended at all. She's definitely one of the very few real 10 in my book, as she remains a perfect mix between talent, beauty, charm and sensuality.
Madame Butterfly (1932), Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant
Street Scene is a 1931 Pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Street Scene takes place on a New York City street from one evening until the following afternoon. Except for one scene which takes place inside a taxi, Vidor shot the entire film on a single set depicting half a city block of house fronts. The movie stars Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., and Beulah Bondi (her screen debut). The music score is by Alfred Newman, his first complete film score. Newman composed the eponymous title theme, in the style of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. IMDb Rating:7.7/10 Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Estelle Taylor Director: King Vidor Writer...
Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.[4] A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. In 1973, the film entered the public domain in the USA due to the copyright claimants failure to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Sun
Cranky legend Sylvia Sidney is interviewed about her long career at the National Arts Club in NYC
http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.seagate.com Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Coll... Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Collecting Generation I knew it was the right time to create a Video Network for Baby-Boomers Only. http://www.YouTube.com/TVDAYS http://www.YouTube.com/DIRECTORSSERIES http://www.YouTube.com/THEATRECORNER What makes my content unique is that I have spent over 30 collecting and restoring from 16mm & 35mm Film Prints and Kinescopes some of t...
"Blood on the Sun" is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan's plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. Wh...
Street Scene is a 1931 Pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Street Scene takes place on a New York City street from one evening until the following afternoon. Except for one scene which takes place inside a taxi, Vidor shot the entire film on a single set depicting half a city block of house fronts. The movie stars Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., and Beulah Bondi (her screen debut). The music score is by Alfred Newman, his first complete film score. Newman composed the eponymous title theme, in the style of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. IMDb Rating:7.7/10 Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Estelle Taylor Director: King Vidor Writer...
Starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, John Halloran and Marvin Miller. Directed by Frank Lloyd. While stationed in Tokyo in the 1930, two-fisted American reporter Nick Condon (James Cagney), obtains The Tanaka Plan, a secret document that outlines the Japanese government's plan for world domination. This exciting thriller was produced by Cagney's own company, which he owned in partnership with his brother, William. BLOOD ON THE SUN won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. Not rated. Black and white. Release date: April 26, 1945.
Es la historia de Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn), un joven abogado gay que descubre que tiene la enfermedad. Tendrá que superar la difícil prueba de salir del armario ante sus padres, así como contarles que ha contraído el SIDA. Junto a él, encontramos a diversos miembros de su familia, que no responderán con igual comprensión hacia la nueva situación de Michael: si por un lado su abuela (Sylvia Sidney) no tiene miedo de abrazarle y darle todo su cariño y apoyo, su hermana embarazada (Sydney Walsh) tiene miedo de tocarle por si eso pudiera afectar a su bebé. A pesar de ser una película que no muestra fielmente la realidad de las parejas gays, se trata de una de las primeras en tratar el terrible tema del SIDA, algo que hace de manera franca y sincera. The groundbreaking classic 1985 televi...
A mobster's daughter (Sylvia Sidney) leads her boyfriend (Gary Cooper) from the circus into bootlegging.
Um casal disposto a escrever um livro sobre a famosa atriz de Hollywood já falecida Lorna Love, resolve passar uns dias na mansão a qual o corpo embalsamado da atriz ainda exibe sua beleza estonteante, embora sem vida. Pouco a pouco estranhos e sinistros acontecimentos começam a tomar conta da casa, envolvendo-os em um emaranhado de misteriosas seduções e feitiços de sensualidade. Título Original: Death At Love House Ano de Produção: 1975 Gênero: Suspense Direção: E.W. Swackhamer ELENCO: Robert Wagner (Joel Gregory) Kate Jackson (Donna Gregory) Sylvia Sidney (Clara Josephs) Bill Macy (Oscar Payne) Dorothy Lamour (Denise Christian) Joan Blondell (Marcella Geffenhart) John Carradine (Conan Carroll) John A. Zee (Eric Herman) Marianna Hill (Lorna Love)
Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about terrorism in the United Kingdom and an agent who hides a time bomb in a delivery package to blow up London. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent.
Cranky legend Sylvia Sidney is interviewed about her long career at the National Arts Club in NYC
http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.seagate.com Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Coll... Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Collecting Generation I knew it was the right time to create a Video Network for Baby-Boomers Only. http://www.YouTube.com/TVDAYS http://www.YouTube.com/DIRECTORSSERIES http://www.YouTube.com/THEATRECORNER What makes my content unique is that I have spent over 30 collecting and restoring from 16mm & 35mm Film Prints and Kinescopes some of t...
In this rare scene from Paddy Chayevsky's "Catch My Boy on Sunday," Sylvia Sidney gives an award-winning peformance as a domineering stage mother. Peg Hillias plays her friend in the live 1954 TV drama.
A tribute to George Raft and Sylvia Sidney and their sizzling onscreen chemistry.
To actress Sylvia Sidney (1910 - 1999). Born in the Bronx, New York into a Russian Jewish family she would come to Hollywood in the 1920s. By the 1930s, Sylvia Sidney was playing dramatic roles and was famous for her large teary eyes. As she once said, "Paramount paid me by the tear". In the course of her career, she co-starred opposite such actors as Henry Fonda, George Raft, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Frederic March. In the 1930s, she starred in such movies as "City Streets" (1931), "Merrily We go to Hell" (1932), "Madame Butterfly" (1932), "Pick-Up" (1933), "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), and "Fury" (1936). She worked for eight decades in film and she was a seasoned veteran by the time she starred in such films as "Damien: The Omen II" (1978), "Beetlejuice" (1988...
Henry Bumstead and James Payne win the Oscar for Art Direction for The Sting at the 46th Academy Awards. Paul Winfield and Sylvia Sidney present the award; hosted by Diana Ross. Watch more of the 1974 Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDOvLHAYOPEN4AAk1JFOaLoq
During the second half of the 20th Century, Sylvia Sydney performed in Boston as a female impersonator. The following interview is from an abandoned film about her life.
August 8th, 2010 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of Sylvia Sidney's birth. Too seldom seen by classic movie viewers today, this is an attempt to honor her beauty, range, and fierce talent during a career that spanned 8 decades. For more background on Sylvia Sidney, please see: http://tinyurl.com/dlqxbd
Her only nomination as Joanne Woodward's overpowering mother in SUMMER WISHES, WINTER DREAMS. Sidney (1910-1999) lost this much deserved Oscar to Tatum O'Neal...and boy was she pissed about that!!! In this scene she runs the gamut from Saks to wedgewood blue and Indian cuisine to "the worst bran muffin I ever had in my life". All of this while smoking a cigarette at a pay phone. Remember them? Or better still, remember CUE???
Scene from "City Streets" (1931). Sylvia Sidney and Gary Cooper are the couple. Subtitles in portuguese.
Cranky legend Sylvia Sidney is interviewed about her long career at the National Arts Club in NYC
To actress Sylvia Sidney (1910 - 1999). Born in the Bronx, New York into a Russian Jewish family she would come to Hollywood in the 1920s. By the 1930s, Sylvia Sidney was playing dramatic roles and was famous for her large teary eyes. As she once said, "Paramount paid me by the tear". In the course of her career, she co-starred opposite such actors as Henry Fonda, George Raft, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Frederic March. In the 1930s, she starred in such movies as "City Streets" (1931), "Merrily We go to Hell" (1932), "Madame Butterfly" (1932), "Pick-Up" (1933), "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), and "Fury" (1936). She worked for eight decades in film and she was a seasoned veteran by the time she starred in such films as "Damien: The Omen II" (1978), "Beetlejuice" (1988...
http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.seagate.com Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.TVDAYS.com http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Coll... Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http://www.vidres@aol.com http://www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Collecting Generation I knew it was the right time to create a Video Network for Baby-Boomers Only. http://www.YouTube.com/TVDAYS http://www.YouTube.com/DIRECTORSSERIES http://www.YouTube.com/THEATRECORNER What makes my content unique is that I have spent over 30 collecting and restoring from 16mm & 35mm Film Prints and Kinescopes some of t...
Early scene from the Rouben Mamoulian film City Streets (1931) with Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
"Blood on the Sun" is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan's plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. Wh...
This is my first tribute to the fabulous Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999), one of the best actresses ever. She was such a great talent, but sadly typecast very soon during her heyday (the '30s), having to play -according to her own words- "... the sister who was bringing up the gangster...then the mother of the gangster...and they always had me ironing somebody's shirt". However, she was a real beauty and had what I consider a MAGICAL and EXQUISITE face. Fortunately, the beauty and the glamour she was able to display are still intact in most of her performances -absolutely unforgettable all of them- even when it was not intended at all. She's definitely one of the very few real 10 in my book, as she remains a perfect mix between talent, beauty, charm and sensuality.
Madame Butterfly (1932), Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant
Street Scene is a 1931 Pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Street Scene takes place on a New York City street from one evening until the following afternoon. Except for one scene which takes place inside a taxi, Vidor shot the entire film on a single set depicting half a city block of house fronts. The movie stars Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., and Beulah Bondi (her screen debut). The music score is by Alfred Newman, his first complete film score. Newman composed the eponymous title theme, in the style of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. IMDb Rating:7.7/10 Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Estelle Taylor Director: King Vidor Writer...
Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.[4] A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. In 1973, the film entered the public domain in the USA due to the copyright claimants failure to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Sun
Cranky legend Sylvia Sidney is interviewed about her long career at the National Arts Club in NYC
in the name, of he who reigns in the kingdom of fire and ice
arise ye creature of satan-lord
ascend your storms across this world,
and answer to our summoning
oh, satan-lord
I am a creature of thy creation, spawn of thy flame,
inflame of thy mind carrier of the alteration
let lightning storms hail the approach of thy arrival
oh, mighty satan-lord
evil lord of the darkest flame
arise from your grave
oh, immortal god
slava satan!!!
fly out over holy dominion
over their teeming lands
throughout the darkened night-sky
carried by your blizzard storm.
bring with you their worlds destruction
that abide within the abyss
all-conquering flying demon
your are under my domination
evil lord of the darkest flame
arise from your grave
oh, immortal god