Nan, a racketeer’s daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sylvia Sidney
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Henry Hathaway, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. Read More »
Behind the High Wall (1956) Abner Biberman, Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, Betty Lynn, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A group of convicts break out of prison, killing a guard, kidnapping the warden and forcing a reluctant inmate to accompany them. Read More »
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) Dorothy Arzner, Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the ideal woman, Joan Prentiss. Read More »
Death at Love House (1976) E.W. Swackhamer, Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney, Horror, Mystery
Donna and Joel Gregory are researching a book about long dead Hollywood goddess Lorna Love. Read More »
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) Gilbert Cates, Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Drama
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life Read More »
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931) David Burton, Dudley Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Drama
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn’t love. Read More »
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
You Only Live Once (1937) Fritz Lang, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. Read More »
Jennie Gerhardt (1933) Marion Gering, Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor, Drama
Jennie Gerhardt, the daughter of poverty-stricken, but hard-working parents, is employed with her mother laundering Senator Brander’s clothes. Read More »
Accent on Youth (1935) Wesley Ruggles, Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Comedy, Romance
Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. Read More »
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
You and Me (1938) Fritz Lang, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings, Crime, Romance
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Read More »
Thirty Day Princess (1934) Marion Gering, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Comedy, Romance
On a visit to a spa in the Ruritanian Kingdom of Tyronia, American financier Richard Gresham meets the country’s ruler, King Anatol XII Read More »
An Early Frost (1985) John Erman, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, Drama
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He’s forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he’s a successful lawyer) and family. He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease that’s killing him. “An Early Frost” was many people’s first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic.
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