Sylvia Sidney

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Sophia Kosow, born August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999), an American actress of stage, screen, and film, with a career that spanned 70 years.

In Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, Sidney came to be known for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife.

For this role, she received the Saturn Award as the Best Support Actress for her role.

She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).

Early life

Sidney was born in Bronx, New York, the niece of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman. She was born in 1915 and was adopted by her stepfather, Sigmund Sidney, a dentist. Her mother became a dressmaker and Beatrice Sidney was renamed Beatrice Sidney. Sylvia became an actress at the age of 15 after using the surname Sidney as a method of combating shyness. Theater critics lauded her performances as a student of the Theater Guild's School of Acting. She made her first film appearance in The Sorrows of Satan, by D.W. Griffith in 1926.

Personal life

Sidney was married three times. Bennett Cerf married her first on October 1, 1935, but the pair divorced six months later on April 9, 1936. She married actor and acting coach Luther Adler in 1938, by whom she had her only child, Jacob ("Jody"), who died of Lou Gehrig's illness when his mother was still alive. In 1946, Adler and Sidney divorced. She married radio producer and announcer Carlton Alsop on March 5, 1947; the couple divorced on March 22, 1951.

During the 1952 presidential race, Sidney, a Democrat, backed Adlai Stevenson's campaign.

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Career

Sidney appeared in a number of films during the Great Depression, often portraying the mother or sister of a criminal. She appeared with Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft, and Cary Grant. An American Tragedy, City Streets, and Street Scene were among her early three-strip Technicolor films from this period: An American Tragedy, Frederick Hitchcock's Fury, and Fritz Lang's Fury (both 1936), You Only Live Once and Dead End (both 1937), and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, an early three-strip Technicolor film. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with during this time. Sidney, one of the top-paid actors in the industry at the time, was making Sabotage with Alfred Hitchcock, earning $10,000 per week—earning a total of $80,000 for Sabotage.

Her career in the 1940s slowed a bit. Exhibitors voted for her "box-office poison" in 1949. Although she did not appear in Les Misérables in 1952, she played Fantine, and though the film itself didn't meet the studio's hopes, Sidney received critical praise for her role.

She appeared on Playhouse 90 three times. In "The Helen Morgan Story," she appeared on May 16, 1957, she appeared as Lulu Morgan, the mother of singer Helen Morgan. Sidney rejoined her former co-star Bergen on the premiere of the short-lived The Polly Bergen Show four months later. She appeared on television during the 1960s on shows such as Route 66, The Defenders, and My Three Sons.

Sidney was nominated for her support role in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, 1973. Sidney, an elderly woman, began to act on film projects and was recognizable by her husky voice, which was a result of cigarette smoking. Miss Coral, the original Miss Coral in the film version of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, was cast as Aidan Quinn's grandmother in the television version of An Early Frost, for which she was the recipient of the Golden Globe Award. She appeared in Damien: Omen II and had a major role in Beetlejuice (directed by longtime Sidney fan Tim Burton), for which she received a Saturn Award and Used People. Her last film role was in Mars Attacks!, Burton's second film in which she played an elderly woman whose beloved songs helped prevent an alien invasion from Mars.

Melissa played in WKRP's pilot episode in Cincinnati as the regal head of the radio station, and she appeared in a memorable episode of Thirtysomething as Melissa's stern grandmother, who wanted to leave her granddaughter the family dress trade, but Melissa wanted to work as a photographer. On the short-lived late-1990s revival of Fantasy Island, Sidney appeared at the start of each episode as the crotchetchetchetchetchety traveller. Trapper John, M.D., was also a star on Starsky & Hutch, The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Diagnosis Murder, and Trapper John, M.D.

Her Broadway career spanned five decades, from her debut as a student at the Theatre Guild School in June 1926 at age 15, to Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré in 1977. The Fourposter, Laughing, and Barefoot in the Park were among the park's other stage credits. Sidney was named the George Eastman Prize by George Eastman House in 1982 for his outstanding contribution to the art of film.

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