Sylvia Sidney
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).
A newly dead New England couple seek help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent...
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A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to...
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Damien: Omen II
as Aunt MarionSince the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of...
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Dead End
as Drina GordonMobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up,...
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Hammett
as Donaldina CameronChinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker...
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Sabotage
as Mrs. VerlocKarl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live...
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Copkiller
as Margaret SmithA NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when...
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Snowbeast
as Mrs. Carrie RillA skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide...
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Used People
as BeckyAt her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets...
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Fury
as Katherine GrantJoe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...
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Street Scene
as Rose MaurrantThe setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as...
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Raid on Entebbe
as Dora BlochBased on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the...
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Violent Saturday
as Elsie BradenThree men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday,...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Miss CoralA disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
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God Told Me To
as Elizabeth MullinA repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination...
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Blood on the Sun
as Iris HilliardNick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world...
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You Only Live Once
as Joan GrahamBased partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a...
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City Streets
as Nan CooleyA mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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Les Miserables
as FantineJean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime...
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Broadway Nights
as PerformerFannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway...
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No Time at All
as Mrs. KramerAn airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears...
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You and Me
as HelenMr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled...
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Mary BurnsA young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a...
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Night of 100 Stars
as SelfThe most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as June TolliverA well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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An American Tragedy
as Roberta 'Bert' AldenA social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Night of 100 Stars III
as SelfA celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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An Early Frost
as Beatrice McKennaSuccessful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
as Flo LorraineAn escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and...
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Mr. Ace
as Margaret Wyndham ChaseA rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
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Behind the High Wall
as Hilda CarmichaelA group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the...
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The Gossip Columnist
as Alma LewellynNew Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt...
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self (archive footage)A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and...
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Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho SanPinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his...
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Pick-up
as Mary RichardsThe scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
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Thru Different Eyes
as Valerie BriandHarvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose...
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One Third of a Nation
as Mary RogersThe negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's...
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Merrily We Go to Hell
as Joan PrenticeA drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan...
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Cousin PollyThough visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting...
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The Secret Night Caller
as KittyA man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene...
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Siege
as Lillian GordonA drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang....
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Make Me a Star
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and...
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Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Having It All
as MarneyThera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.
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The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount...
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Behold My Wife!
as Tonita Storm CloudAfter Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy...
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Finnegan Begin Again
as MargaretA schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician,...
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Thirty Day Princess
as Nancy Lane / Princess CatterinaA European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She...
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Winner Take All
as Anne BarclayThe chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Elizabeth GibsonFour elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl"...
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The Shadow Box
as FelicityOver the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed...
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Man on the Ledge
as Mrs. CosickBeat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel...
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Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Patricia HarperA young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their...
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Death at Love House
as Clara JosephsDonna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about...
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Good Dame
as Lillie TaylorA chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks...
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Accent on Youth
as Linda BrownA young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue...
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Ladies of the Big House
as Kathleen Storm McNeilA woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a...
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The Miracle Man
as Helen Smith aka Helen VailA gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's...
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Love from a Stranger
as Cecily HarringtonCecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She...
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The Witching of Ben Wagner
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is...
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Jennie Gerhardt
as Jennie GerhardtThis turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a...
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A Small Killing
as Sadie RossA college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug...
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's MotherRita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces...
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Pals
as Fern StobbsTwo retired fishing buddies stumble on an unmarked suitcase filled with three million dollars in...
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The Searching Wind
as Cassie BowwmanWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946...
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The Helen Morgan Story
as Lulu MorganBroadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate...
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Andre's Mother
as Mrs. DownesWritten by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of...
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Come Along with Me
as Mrs. FlannerNewly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and...
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The Brass Ring
as GrandmotherA mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as SelfThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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Magnum, P.I.
as uncreditedA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...
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My Three Sons
as uncreditedA widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his...
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The Love Boat
as Natalie CorsonPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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Eight Is Enough
as uncreditedEight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15,...
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The Philco Television Playhouse
as uncreditedThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...
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WKRP in Cincinnati
as Mama CarlsonWhen a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of...
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Diagnosis: Murder
as AliceDr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Tales of Tomorrow
as uncreditedTales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...
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The 20th Century Fox Hour
as uncreditedThe 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...
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Starsky & Hutch
as uncreditedStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Climax!
as uncreditedClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
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Climax!
as Louella WheedronClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (archive footage) (uncredited)A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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thirtysomething
as uncreditedThirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late...
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Lux Video Theatre
as JoyceLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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Lux Video Theatre
as Laura BarrieLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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The Equalizer
as JudgeRobert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private...
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Naked City
as Florence NundaNaked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....
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The Defenders
as Adela CollinsThe Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...
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Route 66
as uncreditedRoute 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...
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Route 66
as Lonnie TaylorRoute 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...
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Dear John
as Mrs. LumenskiDear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is...
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Fantasy Island
as CliaMr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their...
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as uncreditedSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
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General Electric Theater
as Gloria RomaGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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