Biography: Sylvia Sidney |
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
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
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: Joan Fontaine Anne Baxter Judith Anderson Janet Leigh 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: Ben Gazzara Gena Rowlands Aidan Quinn
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: Robert Preston Mary Tyler Moore Sam Waterston
Tags: Romantic Drama Comedy 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...
Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological 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: Steve Allen Betty White Jim Backus
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....
Tags: Horror Crime Mystery Supernatural Horror Crime Thriller Detective Film
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...
Cast: Ennio Morricone Harvey Keitel
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...
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Cast: Joanne Woodward
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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