Sylvia Sidney
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Born Sophie Kosow, Sidney was an intense, vulnerable, waif-like leading lady with a heart-shaped face, trembling lips, and sad eyes. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, she made her professional acting debut at age 16 in Washington after... more
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies (2001)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman Farley Granger Sylvia Sidney Melville Shavelson Peter Jones
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History Biography
Length: 118min
This documentary, produced for PBS's American Masters series, is based on A. Scott Berg's well-received biography of Samuel L. Goldwyn (1882-1974), Hollywood's first and likely still greatest independent producer. (Berg cowrote the screenplay.) Like...
Cast: George C. Scott Don Ameche Sylvia Sidney Lou Antonio James Greene
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime
Length: 95min
The "pals" of the title, played by Don Ameche and George C. Scott, are Army chums living a sedentary retirement. Occasionally the twosome becomes a threesome when Scott's mother Sylvia Sidney shows up. All three are resigned to living out their lives...
Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio (1985)
Cast: Janet Leigh Judith Anderson Anne Baxter Joan Fontaine Jessica Tandy
Length: 129min
Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master...
Cast: Bob Balaban Dina Merrill Sylvia Sidney April Lerman
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 81min
The Brass Ring is one of the first American films produced expressly for cable TV. Dina Merrill heads the cast, as an emotionally disturbed wife and mother. Desperately in need of treatment, Merrill refuses to heed the warnings of her family and...
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore Robert Preston Joan Micklin Silver Sam Waterston Sylvia Sidney
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 112min
Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a late-blooming omance. Robert Preston plays a Mike Finnegan, 65-year-old newspaperman resigned to wasting his time on a lonely...
Cast: Ben Gazzara Gena Rowlands John Glover Aidan Quinn Sylvia Sidney
Tags: Gay & Lesbian Films Drama Family Drama
Length: 97min
Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his...
Cast: Steve Allen Martha Raye Betty White Jim Backus Jack Carter
Tags: Drama
Length: 100min
The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such miniseries as The Kent Family Chronicles. Fourth-billed Kim Cattrall plays the title character, journalist Dina Moran....
Cast: Ennio Morricone Harvey Keitel Sylvia Sidney Nicole Garcia Ennio de Concini
Tags: Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 99min
A New York policeman (Harvey Keitel) imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer (John Lydon), but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment. Highlighted is the intense interplay between the...
Cast: Larry Cohen Sylvia Sidney Tony Lo Bianco Sandy Dennis Mason Adams
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Supernatural Horror Mystery Crime
Length: 87min
Released theatrically as God Told Me To, this inventive film from "B"-movie auteur Larry Cohen was later re-named Demon after television distributors refused to air it under the original title. The convoluted, tabloid-flavored storyline (predating the...
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Cast: Joanne Woodward Martin Balsam Sylvia Sidney Gilbert Cates Dori Brenner
Tags: Drama
Length: 87min
American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled...
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