Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

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

Morte : 1999-07-01

História

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

Filmes

Marte Ataca!
Grandma Norris
Os marcianos invadem nosso planeta, matando e destruindo tudo no caminho, pois acham bem divertido e querem transformar a Terra em um "parque de diversões". Se ninguém achar uma maneira de detê-los, a raça humana está condenada ao extermínio.
Romance de Outono
Becky
No final dos anos 60, logo após a morte de seu marido (Dishy), Pearl (MacLaine), uma mulher de origem judaica, que mora no bairro de Queens, em Nova York, com a mãe (Tandy), e as filhas (Bates e Gay), passa a receber a visita de Joe (Mastroianni), um velho amigo do marido, de origem italiana. Joe sempre foi apaixonado por Pearl e acredita que chegou o momento de se declarar, apesar da reação contrária de toda a família da viúva.
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.
Os Fantasmas se Divertem
Juno
O casarão de uma dupla de fantasmas super atrapalhados foi invadido por novaiorquinos sofisticados. Para espantá-los, eles contratam um profissional: um fantasma especialista em assustar humanos (Michael Keaton), que vai tentar de tudo - adotar formas estranhas, armar ciladas e engraçadíssimas armadilhas. Dirigido por Tim Burton, Os Fantasmas se Divertem é uma comédia hilariante, vencedora do OSCAR de melhor maquiagem em 1988 que ainda conta com um elenco de estrelas: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis e Winona Ryder. Crie coragem e invoque os espíritos. Você terá uma experiência inesquecível!
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.
AIDS - Aconteceu Comigo
Beatrice McKenna
Um advogado descobre que tem AIDS e se vê obrigado a contar para a família e amigos do trabalho que é homossexual, que está infectado e que sua morte é inevitável, uma vez que a doença, nos anos 1980, ainda não tinha tratamento adequado.
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.
A Ordem é Matar
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.
Hammett: Mistério em Chinatown
Donaldina Cameron
O ex-detetive Dashiell Hammett é procurado por um antigo colega de trabalho para investigar o desaparecimento de uma garota chinesa. De volta às ruas, ele descobre uma perigosa rede de corrupção.
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.
A Caixa de Surpresas
Felicity
Três pacientes com câncer em estado terminal moram em casas separadas nos terrenos de um hospital, onde são atendidos e visitados por familiares e amigos íntimos.
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.
Damien: A Profecia II
Aunt Marion
Um casal manda seu sobrinho órfão para a escola militar, onde ele descobre que é o anticristo. Depois de alguma relutância em aceitar o fato, ele passa a usar seus poderes satânicos para matar qualquer um que suspeite de sua herança demoníaca.
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.
A Fera das Neves
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Violentos ataques ocorrem em uma estação de ski no Colorado durante um festival de inverno, onde vários esquiadores são devorados por algum animal da floresta. O que a princípio, todos pensam ser um urso logo se revela uma abominável e perigosa criatura.
Resgate Fantástico
Dora Bloch
A operação de resgate dos passageiros e tripulantes de um avião sequestrado por palestinos. Com a velada simpatia do ditador africano Idi Amin Dada, os terroristas permanecem em Uganda, exigindo a libertação de 53 palestinos presos pelos israelenses em troca dos reféns. Baseado em fatos reais.
Foi Deus Quem Mandou
Elizabeth Mullin
Um detetive de Nova York investiga uma série de assassinatos cometidos por nova-iorquinos aleatórios, que afirmam que "Deus mandou."
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.
Violent Saturday
Elsie Braden
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
O Implacável
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.
A Tragédia do Circo
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.
Beco Sem Saída
Drina Gordon
O mafioso "Baby Face" Martin volta para casa para visitar o bairro de Nova York onde cresceu, encontrando sua mãe, que o rejeita por causa de seu estilo de vida de gângster, e sua antiga namorada, Francey, agora uma prostituta sifilítica. Martin também cruza o caminho de Dave, um amigo de infância que luta para se tornar um arquiteto, e os Dead End Kids, uma gangue de garotos vagando pelas ruas das favelas do East Side da cidade.
Vive-se Uma Só Vez
Joan Graham
A secretária do defensor público e um ex-presidiário se casam e tentam viver juntos, mas uma série de desastres deixa suas vidas fora de controle. Joan é a secretária do defensor público em uma cidade grande. Ela é apaixonada por um criminoso chamado Eddie, e acredita que ele é uma pessoa fundamentalmente boa, que só teve alguns problemas na vida. Ela usa sua influência para libertá-lo mais cedo, e ele tenta ir em frente depois de se casar com ela, mas as coisas não dão tão certo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Sabotagem
Mrs. Verloc
Karl Anton Verloc e sua esposa são proprietários de um pequeno cinema em um quieto subúrbio de Londres. Mas a senhora Verloc não sabe que seu marido tem um segredo que vai afetar seu relacionamento e também vai ser uma ameça a vida do irmão adolescente dela que mora junto com o casal…
Fúria
Katherine Grant
Quando um injustamente acusado prisioneiro mal sobrevive a um ataque de uma turba de linchadores e é dado como morto, ele vingativamente decide responsabilizar a multidão pelo seu assassinato. Joe Wilson e Katherine Grant estão namorando, mas ele não tem dinheiro suficiente para se casar. Então Katherine viaja pelo país para ganhar dinheiro. Mas as coisas dão desastrosamente errado para Joe quando ele para em uma pequena cidade e é confundido com um assassino procurado. Ao longo do filme, Fritz Lang nos mostra como um homem decente e civilizado pode tornar-se um homem cruel e amargo.
A Filha do Bosque Maldito
June Tolliver
Duas famílias desavindas do Kentucky reconciliam-se depois de um drama atroz, graças à mediação desinteressada de um forasteiro.
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 um Mês
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
Durante viagem ao Japão, o Tenente B.F. Pinkerton conhece Cho-Cho San, uma jovem gueixa, com quem impulsivamente se casa. Partindo de volta à América, ele a deixa com um filho nos braços, em uma constante e fiel espera pelo seu retorno.
Quero Ser Estrela
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.
Quando a Mulher Se Opõe
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.
No Turbilhão da Metrópole
Rose Maurrant
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Uma Tragédia Americana
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.
Ruas da Cidade
Nan Cooley
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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.)