Sylvia Sidney
Acting
Biography
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).
Born: August 9, 1910
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
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 Small Killing
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.
Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
WKRP in Cincinnati
When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les Nessman, eager beaver Bailey Quarters, sleazy salesman Herb Tarlek, blonde bombshell Jennifer Marlowe, who serves as the station's ultra-capable receptionist, and station manager Arthur Carlson, whose domineering mother owns WKRP, round out the eccentric bunch.
The Gossip Columnist
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
Fantasy Island
Mr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their wildest dreams and fantasies come true.
Kraft Television Theatre
Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Fury
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.
Beetlejuice
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Magnum, P.I.
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Filmography
as Clia
as Grandma Norris
as Alice
as Becky
as Self
as Mrs. Downes
as Mrs. Lumenski
as Self (archive footage)
as Juno
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
as Fern Stobbs
as Judge
as Beatrice McKenna
as Margaret
as (archive footage)
as Margaret Smith
as Grandmother
as Marney
as Donaldina Cameron
as Self
as Mrs. Flanner
as Mrs. Flanner
as Sadie Ross
as Elizabeth Barrett
as Felicity
as Cousin Polly
as Alma Lewellyn
as Lillian Carlson
as Molly
as Aunt Marion
as Lillian Gordon
as Natalie Corson
as Miss Coral
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
as Aunt Fealty
as Dora Bloch
as Elizabeth Mullin
as Clara Josephs
as Olga Grossman
as Anne Barclay
as Kitty
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
as Elizabeth Gibson
as Self
as Adela Collins
as Lonnie Taylor
as Hannah Ellis
as Miss Houk
as Beulah Ridges
as Florence Nunda
as Mrs. Kramer
as Lulu Morgan
as Mrs. Kramer
as Hilda Carmichael
as Mrs. Cosick
as Mrs. Cosick
as Elsie Braden
as Louella Wheedron
as Gloria Roma
as Laura Blake
as Fantine
as Cecily Harrington
as Cassie Bowman
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
as Iris Hilliard
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Flo Lorraine
as Mary Rogers
as Helen Roberts
as Drina
as Joan Graham
as Mrs. Verloc
as Katherine Grant
as June Tolliver
as Mary Burns
as Linda Brown
as Tonita Storm Cloud
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
as Lillie Taylor
as Jennie Gerhardt
as Mary Richards
as Cho-Cho San
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
as Joan Prentice
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
as Rose Maurrant
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
as Patricia Harper
as (archive footage)
as Nan Cooley
as Carrie Adams
as Valerie Briand
as Performer
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)