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