Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

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

사망 : 1999-07-01

약력

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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화성 침공
Grandma Norris
불분명한 시기, 어느 해 5월. 화성인이 지구에 나타난다. 세계 평화 유지와 자유 진영의 지도자임을 자청하는 미국 대통령 제임스 데일은 이들은 맞을 채비를 한다. 그러나 평화를 원한다던 화성인들은 네바다 사막에서 대기 중이던 지구의 환영단 케이시 대장을 비롯한 환영인파를 무참히 사살해버린다. 이러한 사태의 원인이 커뮤니케이션의 문화적 차이라고 판단한 제임스는 화성인과의 재교신을 시도한다. 이 교신에서 화성인들이 공식적인 사과문을 보내오자 제임스와 각료들은 기뻐하지만....
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.
비틀쥬스
Juno
신혼부부 아담(알렉 볼드윈)과 바바라(지나 데이비스)는 어처구니 없는 사고로 사망하고 행복했던 시절을 잊지 못해 유령이 되어 계속 집에 머문다. 그러던 어느날 찰스 가족이 이사오자 아담과 바바라는 그들을 쫓아낼 계획을 세운다. 찰스 가족을 쫓아내기 위해 유령소동을 벌였지만 번번이 실패한다. 아담부부는 찰스의 딸 리디아(위노나 라이더)와 친해지고 리디아와 결혼을 꿈꾸는 사악한 장난꾸러기 비틀쥬스(마이클 키튼)는 계속해서 사건을 벌이고, 일은 꼬여만 가는데...
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.
Pals
Fern Stobbs
Two retired fishing buddies stumble on an unmarked suitcase filled with three million dollars in cash. Then the fun starts flying as fast as bullets.
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
Michael Pierson, a young gay man and professional attorney, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. Having never even come out to his family, he finds himself in the unenviable position of dropping two bombshells on them. He must come to terms with the inevitability of his premature death while trying to maintain his relationships with family members who harbor fears, resentments, and denial. Airing on network television during the height of the original AIDS epidemic, "An Early Frost" was many people's first look at an AIDS victim as a human being rather than a statistic.
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.
죽음의 지령
Margaret Smith
범인이 경찰로 위장하여 연쇄 살인을 벌이는 사건에 접한 뉴욕 경찰은 혼란에 빠진다. 편집증이 있는 프레드 형사(Lieutenant Fred O'Connor: 하비 키이텔 분)는 용의자를 그만의 아지트로 데려가 심문을 한다. 그러던 중 연쇄살인의 진범 레오(Leo Smith: 존 라이든 분)를 체포하여 그의 방식대로 처리하려 하지만 이를 눈치챈 동료 밥(Bob Carvo: 레오나드 만 분)의 저지를 받는다. 결국 심한 다툼 끝에 프레드는 밥을 살해하고 만다. 당황한 프레드는 레오의 도움으로 밥의 죽음을 또 다른 범죄처럼 꾸미는데...
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.
Hammett
Donaldina Cameron
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
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.
샤도우 박스
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.
오멘 2
Aunt Marion
6월 6일 6시, 악마의 사주를 받고 태어난 데미안. 그는 자신의 악마적 능력을 자신도 그 누구도 모른 채 숨기고 성장한다. 13세가 된 데미안은 천재로 알려져 있다. 시카고의 실업가인 백부의 양자로서 육군 사관 학교를 수석으로 졸업한 데미안은 이제 자신의 악마적 재능을 분출할 시기가 되었음을 직감한다. 이에 그의 악마적 비밀을 눈치챈 여기자는 무서운 새에 의해 온통 피범벅이 된 채 죽고 데미안의 친구와 백부모 마저도 죽음을 당한다. {"저런 사람들은 거짓 사도요, 궤휼의 역군이니, 자기를 그리스도의 사도로 가장하는 자들이니라 (For Such Are False Apostles, Deceitful Workers, Transforming Themsklves Into The Apostles Of Christ) - 고후11:13(II Cor.11:13)".}
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.
로즈 가든
Miss Coral
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Snowbeast
Mrs. Carrie Rill
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Raid on Entebbe
Dora Bloch
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
신이 내게 말하길
Elizabeth Mullin
뉴욕 탐정은 "하나님의 말씀이였다"라고 주장하는 다양한 뉴욕 시민들이 저지른 일련의 살인 사건을 조사한다.
Death at Love House
Clara Josephs
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. His wife attempts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and their very lives.
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.
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Elizabeth Gibson
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
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.
난폭한 토요일
Elsie Braden
애리조나의 작은 광산마을을 배경으로 하는 영화는 마을 사람들이 각자의 개인적인 이유로 은행털이에 참여하는 과정을 묘사한다. 여기서 리 마빈은 은행 강도 역을 맡아 차가운 악의 면모를 선보이고, 농부로 출연한 어네스트 보그나인은 평화를 신봉하지만 악당에게 위협받는 아이들을 위해 폭력을 행사하는 다층적인 모습을 보여준다. (2011년 할리우드 저예산 B급영화 기획전)
Les Miserables
Fantine
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
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.
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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.
Blood on the Sun
Iris Hilliard
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
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.
데드 엔드
Drina Gordon
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
단 한번뿐인 삶
Joan Graham
세 번의 전과 기록을 갖고 있는 에디 테일러(Eddie Taylor: 헨리 폰다 분)는 사랑하는 여인 조앤 그레이엄(Joan Graham: 실비아 시드니 분)과 조앤을 사랑하는 변호사 스티븐 휘트니(Stephen Whitney: 바톤 맥레인 분)의 도움으로 출감하게 된다. 출감 후 에디는 휘트니가 마련해 준 운수회사에서 조앤과의 달콤한 신혼을 꿈꾸며 새로운 인생을 설계하지만 운수회사 사장은 전과자라는 낙인이 찍인 에디를 작은 꼬투리를 빌미로 몰인정하게 해고하고 만다. 에디는 사장을 찾아가 앞으로 성실하게 일할 것을 다짐하며 사정을 하지만 전과자에 대한 사회의 불신은 에디를 쉽게 받아들이지 않는다. 한편 에디가 전과자라는 것을 안 운수 회사의 동료는 은행을 턴 후 에디가 의심을 받도록 에디의 모자를 현장에 떨어뜨린다. 경찰에 쫓기게 된 에디는 조안을 찾아가 결백을 주장하며 일단 도피할 것을 말하지만 이미 잠복해 있던 경찰에게 붙잡히기 되고, 네 번째 범죄를 저지르면 사형을 당하게 되는 국가법상사형을 선고받는데...
사보타주
Mrs. Verloc
어느날 밤, 시내 전체가 정전이 되고 사고가 발생한다. 경찰은 수사를 통해 누군가 고의로 꾸민 사보타지임을 밝혀내고 범인을 찾아나선다. 경찰은 시내에서 극장을 경영하고 있는 벌록을 유력한 용의자로 지목하고 그를 감시하도록 테드를 투입한다. 테드는 극장 옆 야채가게 점원으로 위장취업하여 벌록과 그의 부인 그리고 그녀의 어린 동생 스티브에게 접근하고, 테드는 벌록의 부인과 스티브에게 호감을 느끼게 된다. 한편, 테러 집단은 큰 폭탄을 이용한 사보타지를 계획하고 벌록에게 폭탄을 운반하는 임무를 맡긴다. 벌록을 미행하던 경잘은 그에게서 결정적인 단서를 찾아낸다. 토요일 오후 1시 45분까지 피카디리 광장으로 폭탄을 운반해야 하는 벌록은 테드가 자신을 감시하고 있는 것을 알고 초조해 한다. 그러는 사이에 새장에 실린 폭탄이 도착하고, 생각다 못한 벌록은 폭탄을 필름으로 위장한 뒤, 스티브에게 그것을 운반하도록 시킨다. 영화 필름인줄만 알고 심부름을 나선 스티브는 가는 길에 이것저것 구경하느라 시간 가는 줄 모른다. 결국 스티브가 탔던 버스는 광장에 도착하기도 전에 폭파하고 만다. 스티브의 사망소식을 확인한 누나는 벌록을 증오하며 결국 그를 죽인다. 그때 그녀를 찾아온 테드는 벌록의 시체를 발견하고 그동안 품어왔던 사랑을 고백하며 함께 도망가자고 제의한다. 한편 새장에 폭탄을 실어서 운반했던 노인은 자신의 새장이 단서가 되는 것을 두려워한 나머지 새장을 찾으러 극장을 찾았다가 경찰과 대치상황에 놓이게 된다. 결국 그 노인은 스스로 폭탄을 터뜨려 자살하고 경찰은 이 사고로 벌록도 같이 사망한 것으로 결론을 내린다. 테드는 흐느끼는 벌록 부인을 부축하며 영원히 함께 할 것을 다짐한다.
퓨리
Katherine Grant
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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.
Thirty Day Princess
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
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.
우리는 즐겁게 지옥에 간다
Joan Prentice
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
스트리트 신
Rose Maurrant
한여름, 뜨거운 뉴욕의 거리. 존스 부인은 이웃들과 모여 안나와 스티브의 관계에 대해 떠들어댄다. 한편, 출장을 갔던 안나의 남편 프랭크는 예정보다 일찍 돌아오는데, 잠시 후 비명과 총소리가 울리고 거리는 구경꾼들로 가득 찬다. 총을 든 프랭크가 붙잡히고, 안나는 병원으로 후송된다. 퓰리처상을 수상한 동명의 희곡을 영화화했으며, 작가 엘머 라이스가 직접 시나리오를 썼다. 하루 정도의 시간과 한정된 공간에서 킹 비더는 긴장감 넘치는 극적 분위기를 자유자재로 만들어냈다.
An American Tragedy
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Patricia Harper
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
도시의 거리
Nan Cooley
마물리안은 30년대 할리우드에서 꾸준히 상상력이 넘치는 작업을 해온 감독으로 독특한 스타일과 매체를 다루는 숙련된 솜씨 모두를 갖추었다. 러시아에서 그는 스타니슬랍스키의 이론을 실천하던 연출가였던 전력을 살려 뉴욕에서 연극을 연출하다가 영화계에 입문하게 된다. 실험적이고 시적인 양식에 이끌려 이미 퇴색해버린 자연주의적인 색채를 버리고 연기와 춤, 음악, 맛깔스러운 대사, 무대 장식과 색깔을 조화롭게 연출할 줄 알았다. 노래와 춤이 섞인 드라마에 복합적인 카메라 움직임을 사용해서 정서를 극대화하고, 사운드의 효과를 잘 표현했다는 평가를 받는다. 는 갱스터의 사랑이야기로, 생략적인 내러티브의 사용이 돋보이고, 사실적인 대사와 움직임에 능통하며, 카메라의 구도도 탁월하게 사용되었다. 아이러니와 시니컬리즘에 입각한 그의 코미디는 루비치의 영화보다 훨씬 더 예민한 취향과 감각을 구사한다. 초기 작품은 루비치, 르네 클레르, 조지 큐커, 막스 오퓔스와 유사함을 보이고, 미넬리에게도 영향을 주었다. (부산시네마센터 2011 - [개관영화제]백화열전)
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.)