Sylvia Sidney
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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).
Known for
Credits
Beetlejuice (1988)
as Juno
Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Grandma Norris
Damien - Omen II (1978)
as Aunt Marion
You Only Live Once (1937)
as Joan Graham
Man on the Ledge (1955)
as Mrs. Cosick
Violent Saturday (1955)
as Elsie Braden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
as Miss Coral
Fury (1936)
as Katherine Grant
Blood on the Sun (1945)
as Iris Hilliard
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
God Told Me To (1976)
as Elizabeth Mullin
Raid on Entebbe (1976)
as Dora Bloch
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as June Tolliver
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self
Death at Love House (1976)
as Clara Josephs
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
as Flo Lorraine
Hammett (1982)
as Donaldina Cameron
Used People (1992)
as Becky
Sabotage (1936)
as Mrs. Verloc
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Elizabeth Gibson
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
as Joan Prentice
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
as Cousin Polly
Dead End (1937)
as Drina
The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987)
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
An Early Frost (1985)
as Beatrice McKenna
Make Me a Star (1932)
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Les Miserables (1952)
as Fantine
No Time at All (1958)
as Mrs. Kramer
Snowbeast (1977)
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
Having It All (1982)
as Marney
You and Me (1938)
as Helen Roberts
Pick-up (1933)
as Mary Richards
Copkiller (1983)
as Margaret Smith
Behind the High Wall (1956)
as Hilda Carmichael
Mr. Ace (1946)
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Love from a Stranger (1947)
as Cecily Harrington
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
City Streets (1931)
as Nan Cooley
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
as Margaret
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
as Patricia Harper
Come Along with Me (1982)
as Mrs. Flanner
The Secret Night Caller (1975)
as Kitty
Thirty Day Princess (1934)
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
as Lulu Morgan
One Third of a Nation (1939)
as Mary Rogers
The Shadow Box (1980)
as Felicity
The Gossip Columnist (1980)
as Alma Lewellyn
An American Tragedy (1931)
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Winner Take All (1975)
as Anne Barclay
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Street Scene (1931)
as Rose Maurrant
A Small Killing (1981)
as Sadie Ross
The Miracle Man (1932)
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Behold My Wife! (1934)
as Tonita Storm Cloud
Siege (1978)
as Lillian Gordon
Good Dame (1934)
as Lillie Taylor
Madame Butterfly (1932)
as Cho-cho San
Andre's Mother (1990)
as Mrs. Downes
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949)
as Sylvia Sidney
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Mary Burns
Pals (1987)
as Fern Stobbs
Five Minutes from the Station (1930)
as Carrie Adams
Accent on Youth (1935)
as Linda Brown
The Brass Ring (1983)
as Grandmother
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
as Jennie Gerhardt
Thru Different Eyes (1929)
as Valerie Briand
Broadway Nights (1927)
as Performer
The Searching Wind (1946)
as Cassie Bowman