Sylvia Sidney Movies

Want to know the best Sylvia Sidney movies?  How about the worst Sylvia Sidney movies?  Curious about Sylvia Sidney box office grosses or which Sylvia Sidney movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Sylvia Sidney movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) was an Oscar® nominated American actress.  She was a leading lady in the 1930s….whose career spanned 8 decades.  His first movie was 1929’s Thru Different Eyes and her last movie was 67 years later when she saved Earth from aliens in 1996’s Mars Attacks.   Her IMDb page shows 107 acting credits from 1929-1998. This page will rank 35 Sylvia Sidney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  Her many television appearances, a few not released in North American theaters and some early Paramount movies were not included in the rankings.  This page comes from a request by Germany’s Lupino.

Alec Baldwin, Sylvia Sidney and Gena Davis in 1988’s Beetlejuice

Sylvia Sidney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Sylvia Sidney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Sylvia Sidney films by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Sylvia Sidney films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Sylvia Sidney films by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Sylvia Sidney films by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Sylvia Sidney film received.
  • Sort Sylvia Sidney films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Sylvia Sidney – All From Lupino’s Excellent Comment

  1. Sylvia Sidney was born August 8th, 1910 as Sophia Kosow in New York (Bronx).

2. Sylvia Sidney had an ongoing affair with Paramount producer BP Schulberg in the 30’s, who was 18 years her senior.

3. Sylvia Sidney was married 3 times, had one son, Jodie, who suffered from ALS and to whom she was highly devoted. He died in 1987.

4. Sylvia Sidney had a reputation for being very outspoken, she was often referred to as being cantankerous.

5. Sylvia Sidney played the tragic Cio-Cio San in the nonmusical version of 1932’s Madame Butterfly  which led to a brand of Japanese condoms being named the “Sylvia Sidneys”.

6. Sylvia Sidney was nominated for Golden Globes® and Emmy Awards®, she won the Golden Globe® for her work in the first TV movie dealing with HIV, An early Frost in 1985.

7. Sylvia Sidney was an expert on needle pointing and wrote 2 books on that topic.

8.  Sylvia Sidney made one movie with Alfred Hitchcock and William Wyler….she did not get along with either legendary director.

9. Director Tim Burton was a fan of Sylvia Sidney.  He cast her as Juno in Beetlejuice and as Grandma Flo in Mars Attacs!. Sidney had the following to say about him: “The way Tim Burton treated me, I really felt like a star!”

10. Sylvia Sidney died from throat cancer aged 88, being a lifelong smoker she didn’t even stop during chemo-therapy.

Check out Sylvia Sidney’s movie career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Steve Lensman’s Sylvia Sidney You Tube Video

78 thoughts on “Sylvia Sidney Movies

  1. HI TEACH

    Another slip of the pen from me – apologies. Could you remove from this page my post to Flora as it is rightly on your new Dick Van D page as well. Many thanks.

    FROM Your star pupil
    [at least before Steve!]

  2. Bruce,
    if you don’t mind I’m going to do some “promotion” on Miss Sidney’s page by adding LEGAL links for watching or downloading some of her works. It would be nice if you’d find a way to add those links permanently to her page if you’ll find the time. Thank you in advance 🙂

    According to imdb, her first full fledged screen part, the silent THRU DIFFERENT EYES/THE MANY FACES OF TRUTH (1929) not a great copy, but watchable:

    https://archive.org/details/TheManyFacesOfTruth1929WarnerBaxterMaryDuncanEdmundLoweSylvia

    King Vidor’s STREET SCENE (1931) Good Quality

    https://archive.org/details/StreetScene1931

    Cary Grant and the infamous “Sylvia Sidney’s” in MADAME BUTTERFLY (1932) Better Quality than my DVD:

    https://archive.org/details/MadameButterfly1932Leg

    Alfred Hitchcocks SABOTAGE/A WOMAN ALONE (1936) Really good Quality :

    https://archive.org/details/SabotageImageQualityUpgrade

    Her biggest box office success, costarring with James Cagney BLOOD ON THE SUN Decent Quality:

    https://archive.org/details/BloodontheSun

    An interesting Episode from the TV show TALES OF TOMORROW, called TIME TO GO (1952) Decent Quality:

    https://archive.org/details/Tales_Of_Tomorrow_-_Time_To_Go

    All links come from Internet Archive.org, a site full of stuff in the public domain. There were more Sidney movies, but I couldn’t find out about their status and didn’t want to post something here that might not be legal in the end.

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