Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

Nacimiento : 1910-08-09, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1999-07-01

Historia

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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Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney

Películas

Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
Parodia de los filmes de ciencia ficción de los años 50. Unos platillos volantes procedentes de Marte sobrevuelan todas las capitales del mundo. La población, aterrada, espera conocer sus intenciones. Al presidente de los Estados Unidos, su asesor científico le asegura que serán absolutamente pacíficas. Sin embargo, sus asesores militares le aconsejan que aniquile a los marcianos antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
Used People
Becky
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Andre's Mother
Mrs. Downes
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son to AIDS. Set at Andre's memorial service, the film follows Katherine's journey as she confronts the death of her son, the anguish of his lover Cal Porter (Richard Thomas), and, in flashbacks, the key moments of denial and miscommunication with those closest to her. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season nine, episode four).
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Bitelchús
Juno
¿Qué debería hacer una pareja de fantasmas si su estrafalario hogar de Nueva Inglaterra se llenara de elegantes visitantes neoyorquinos? Pedir ayuda a un exorcista para aterrorizar a los intrusos con el fin de que abandonen la casa. Bitelchús es una criatura de ultratumba repugnante y terrorífica, un fenómeno asustando y bromeando que se gira y se transforma en grotescas formas, traga insectos y no puede dejar a las mujeres (vivas o muertas) en paz.
Ben Wagner
George Wagner (Sam Bottoms) moves his wife and family, including son Ben (Justin Gocke), to a new town, where he begins a real estate job for Angelo Romano (Craig Clyde). Ben, a high school freshman, doesn't seem to get along with his busy, somewhat distant father. He finds consolation with a mysterious young girl, Regina (Bettina Rae), and her Grammy (Sylvia Sidney), who are both thought by the townspeople to be witches. Ben soon believes himself bewitched by Regina, a secret he shares with his sister, Liz (Jamie Ballard), and he becomes more confident, making the school's basketball team and earning better grades, while still searching for his father's approval. Ben's snotty teenage sister, Susan (Elizabeth Shumway), who's trying to stay friends with the stuck-up rich girl Ashley Addison (Amy Allred), blackmails Liz into learning about Regina, causing a near-fatal accident when Liz follows Ben to the lake and tumbles into a stream.
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
Colegas
Fern Stobbs
Después de encontrar una maleta conteniendo 3 millones y medio de dólares, Jack Stobbs (George C. Scott) y Art Riddle (Don Ameche) se ven envueltos en un torbellino de excitación e involuntariamente implicados con el conocido circulo de la droga en Florida. (FILMAFFINITY)
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
Michael Pierson es un joven homosexual que ha contraído el SIDA, un hecho que cambiará la vida de sus padres Katherine y Nick... "An Early Frost" fue la primera producción en tratar la enfermedad del SIDA desde una óptica de ficción cuando aún existía mucho desconocimiento sobre el tema, razón por la que obtuvo buenas críticas y numerosos galardones. (FILMAFFINITY)
Finnegan Begin Again
Margaret
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Copkiller
Margaret Smith
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
The Brass Ring
Grandmother
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
Having It All
Marney
Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.
El hombre de Chinatown
Donaldina Cameron
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. El exdetective privado Dashiell Hammett, un bebedor compulsivo con tuberculosis que se gana la vida escribiendo relatos pulp, recibe la inesperada visita de un viejo amigo que dice necesitar ayuda.
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Come Along with Me
Mrs. Flanner
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.
A Small Killing
Sadie Ross
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
The Shadow Box
Felicity
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Cousin Polly
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
The Gossip Columnist
Alma Lewellyn
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
La Maldición de Damien
Aunt Marion
Desde la repentina y sospechosa muerte de sus padres, Damien, vive con sus adinerados tíos (Lee Grant y William Holden). El chico, a quien muchos consideran el Anticristo, planea fríamente apoderarse del imperio empresarial de su tío como primer paso para dominar el mundo. Mientras tanto, todos los que intentan desvelar los secretos de su siniestro pasado, o de su pérfido futuro, encuentran la muerte de forma rápida y cruel...
Siege
Lillian Gordon
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because the victims are too scared to testify against the bullying leader, a semi-retired toolmaker decides to take a stand.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Miss Coral
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
La bestia de las nieves
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Un antiguo campeón de esquí, Gar Seberg, vuelve junto a su esposa, a su viejo hogar en las Montañas Rocosas. Pero allí están desapareciendo turistas, brutalmente asesinados por un desconocido animal.
Brigada antisecuestro
Dora Bloch
Un avión de Air France, que transporta cien pasajeros judíos, es secuestrado por un grupo de terroristas que amenazan con llevar a cabo un atentado. Los comandos israelíes preparan una gran operación para rescatar a los pasajeros y devolverlos a sus casas sanos y salvos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Demon
Elizabeth Mullin
Un detective de Nueva York investiga una serie de asesinatos llevados a cabo aleatoriamente por diferentes neoyorquinos que declaran que "Dios me dijo que lo hiciera"...
El sepulcro de Lorna Love
Clara Josephs
Con el objetivo de escribir una novela, un escritor llamado Joel Gregory acude a la vieja mansión de una actriz fallecida llamada Lorna Love. El padre de Joel tuvo un romance de juventud con la intérprete, un hecho que inmortalizó en varios cuadros. Al llegar al lúgubre lugar junto a su esposa Donna, el autor comienza a descubrir diversos fenómenos paranormales.
Winner Take All
Anne Barclay
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
The Secret Night Caller
Kitty
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
Deseos de verano, sueños de invierno
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Rita es una neoyorquina de mediana edad que está sufriendo una crisis emocional. No tiene buenas relaciones con sus hijos, pero con su madre tampoco se lleva muy bien...
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Elizabeth Gibson
Cuatro señoras de avanzada edad con una gran cantidad de tiempo libre tienen la idea de crear un personaje de ficción femenino para un servicio de citas por ordenador. Sin embargo, las cosas toman un giro trágico cuando su descripción femenina atrae a un psicópata.
Behind the High Wall
Hilda Carmichael
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
Man on the Ledge
Mrs. Cosick
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
Sábado trágico
Elsie Braden
Tres ladrones pretenden atracar un banco en una ciudad minera de Arizona. Cuando llega la noche realizan el asalto y huyen con un rehén hasta una población donde vive una comunidad Amish.
El inspector de hierro
Fantine
Tras robar una barra de pan para alimentar a una familia hambrienta, Jean Valjean es sentenciado a galeras durante diez años. En esa época conoce a Javert, un obsesivo policía hijo de convictos. Tras su liberación, Valjean es tratado como un paria y sólo encuentra refugio con un amable obispo que reforma su vida. Sin embargo, una pequeña infracción provoca la persecución de Valjean por el ascendido Javert, una persecución que consumirá las vidas de ambos hombres durante muchos años.
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Sylvia Sidney
This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed gambling city and vacation at a dude-ranch resort and spa. Included among the resort guests are Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hart, Yvonne De Carlo, Clara Bow and her husband, former western-movie star and current Nevada politician, Rex Bell.
Al filo de las nueve
Cecily Harrington
Cecily Harrington, luchando por una pequeña asignación, gana una fortuna en la lotería. En lugar de casarse con su novio, decide emprender un viaje. Un extraño, Manuel Cortez, viene a alquilar su casa y ella se enamora de él. Se casan y se van de luna de miel a una mansión aislada, sin percatarse que su flamante marido es un cazafortunas con varias esposas asesinadas en su haber.
The Searching Wind
Cassie Bowwman
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
Mr. Ace
Margaret Wyndham Chase
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
Sangre sobre el sol
Iris Hilliard
James Cagney interpreta a Nick Condon, un reportero americano que trabaja en el Tokyo Chronical durante los años treinta, y quien muestra abiertamente su oppsición a la clara ínea política expansionista del gobierno imperialista japonés. Nick descubrirá un plan secreto para propiciar la conquista del mundo por parte de los japoneses, trama que revelará mediante un artículo de su periódico. Las autoridades japonesas exigirán la retirada de la calle del medio impreso y acosarán a Nick para conocer hasta dónde está enterado de los planes imperialistas. Pronto descubrirá que su confidente y amigo ha sido asesinado cuando intentaba salir del país con su mujer.
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.
The Wagons Roll at Night
Flo Lorraine
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
One Third of a Nation
Mary Rogers
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
You and Me
Helen
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Calle sin salida
Drina Gordon
En una calle de Nueva York, la miseria y la delincuencia conviven con la riqueza de los inquilinos de un lujoso bloque de apartamentos. Inevitablemente esos agudos contrastes acabarán desencadenando tensiones entre los dos mundos.
Sólo se vive una vez
Joan Graham
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Sabotaje
Mrs. Verloc
Karl Anton Verloc y su esposa poseen un pequeño cine en un tranquilo suburbio de Londres donde viven aparentemente felices. Pero la Sra. Verloc no sabe que su marido tiene un secreto que afectará a su relación y amenazará la vida de su hermano adolescente.
Furia
Katherine Grant
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
El camino del pino solitario
June Tolliver
En un valle perdido entre las montañas, viven los Tolliver y los Falin, dos familias enemistadas que mantienen durante generaciones una guerra abierta e incesante. Se trata de un odio atávico, heredado, sin que ninguna de las partes conozca ni remotamente el oscuro motivo que originó la sangrienta confrontación.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Accent on Youth
Linda Brown
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Behold My Wife!
Tonita Storm Cloud
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Princesa por un mes
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
La princesa Catterina se pone enferma de paperas justo antes de viajar a los Estados Unidos. Al ser un viaje fundamental para la supervivencia económica de su Reino, contrata a una actriz de enorme parecido físico con ella para que suplante su personalidad. Aunque nadie nota la farsa, todo se complica cuando el editor de un periódico quiere acompañar a la princesa en su gira americana...
Good Dame
Lillie Taylor
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Pick Up
Mary Richards
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho San
Un oficial norteamericano se siente enormemente atraído por una bella geisha.
Make Me a Star
Herself (uncredited)
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Tuya para siempre
Joan Prentice
Un escritor alcohólico se dispone a estrenar su primera obra en Broadway, pero le conlleva tanto trabajo que le crea problemas matrimoniales...
The Miracle Man
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Ladies of the Big House
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Una pareja de recién casados es víctima de las maniobras del ex de la mujer, un gangster rencoroso y cruel. Acaban acusados de un crimen que no han cometido, él sentenciado a muerte y ella a cadena perpetua. Perro la anterior novia del gangster, que está en la misma cárcel, la ayuda a demostrar su inocencia.
La calle
Rose Maurrant
El escenario es una manzana anónima durante un verano sofocante, donde los residentes - italianos, judíos, suecos, alemanes e irlandeses- representan el no muy idealizado crisol de razas estadounidenses. Hay cháchara ociosa... chismorreos... celos... racismo... adulterio... y, de repente pero no inesperadamente, un asesinato.
Una tragedia humana
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Clive, un humilde trabajador, está a punto de conquistar a una rica heredera, cuando Roberta, su antigua novia, le comunica que está embarazada; Roberta se ahoga en circunstancias extrañas y él es acusado de asesinato.
Confesiones de una colegiala
Patricia Harper
Una joven estudiante universitaria se queda embarazada por el hombre que ama, pero las circunstancias impiden que se case con él, por lo cual contrae matrimonio con un compañero de clase al que no ama. Sin embargo, su amante regresa pronto, lo que propiciará a que ella se encuentre frente al dilema de a quién elegir.
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) es un largometraje, de aproximadamente 55 minutos de duración, de Paramount Pictures, hecho para celebrar el vigésimo aniversario de la fundación del estudio en 1912. La película fue una película promocional para expositores y nunca tuvo un teatro teatral habitual. lanzamiento. La película incluye una breve historia de Paramount, entrevistas con varios actores y clips de los próximos proyectos (algunos de los cuales nunca llegaron a buen término). El título proviene de una biografía del fundador de Paramount Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), de William Henry Irwin.
Las calles de la ciudad
Nan Cooley
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca (1920-1933). El padrastro de una bonita chica pertenece a una banda de traficantes de alcohol. Ella está enamorada de un atractivo joven que trabaja en una caseta de feria de tiro al blanco y desea casarse con él, pero como no tienen dinero, se le ocurre la idea de introducir a su novio en los negocios de su padrastro, sin saber que se trata de una banda criminal. A causa de una jugarreta de su padrastro, la chica acabará en la cárcel. Y, mientras, el novio ingresa en la banda.
Five Minutes from the Station
Carrie Adams
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. Mason has other plans for that vacancy, and for Bert.
Thru Different Eyes
Valerie Briand
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
Broadway Nights
Performer
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)