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You are here: Home / Archives for Sylvia Sidney

Pick-Up (1933) Starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft

February 15, 2017 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Pick Up 1933 Sylvia Sidney

Paramount pre-Code Pick-Up (1933) is the first of three movies co-starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Also features William Harrigan and Lilian Bond. Based on a story by Viña Delmar and directed by Sidney-regular Marion Gering.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Benito Mussolini, Brooks Benedict, Charles Middleton, Clarence Wilson, George Raft, Great Depression, Lilian Bond, Louise Beavers, Marion Gering, Oscar Apfel, panther woman, Paramount, pre-Code, Purnell Pratt, Robert McWade, Sylvia Sidney, Vina Delmar, William Harrigan

Good Dame (1934) Starring Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March

March 14, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney

Lots of Depression-era slang tossed about in Paramount’s Good Dame (1934). Carny hustler Fredric March falls for chorine nice girl Sylvia Sidney in this rarely seen pre-Code.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Bradley Page, carnivals, Fredric March, Guy Usher, Jack La Rue, Joseph Franz, Kathleen Burke, Marion Gering, Miami Alvarez, Noel Francis, Paramount, pre-Code, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Russell Hopton, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Brennan, William Farnum

City Streets (1931) Starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney

February 8, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney

A look at the most stylized of the 1931 gangster movies, Rouben Mamoulian’s City Streets (1931) from Paramount, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, city streets, Clara Bow, dashiell hammett, Gangsters, Gary Cooper, Guy Kibbee, ladies of the mob, max marcin, oliver hp garrett, Paramount, Paul Lukas, pre-Code, Prohibition, rouben mamoulian, Stanley Fields, Sylvia Sidney, William "Stage" Boyd, Wynne Gibson

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) Starring Sylvia Sidney with Melvyn Douglas

October 26, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

From Film Daily, November 15, 1935, page 7

Sylvia Sidney stars in Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) her first film under contract to Walter Wanger for Paramount. Introduces Alan Baxter as gangster Babe Wilson. Also featuring Melvyn Douglas, Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy and Pert Kelton.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, alan baxter, Brian Donlevy, Gangsters, Melvyn Douglas, Paramount, pert kelton, Prison Films, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, walter wanger, William K. Howard

Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936) Starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney

May 20, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Spencer Tracy 1940 De Beukelaer Trading Card

Spencer Tracy breaks out in Fritz Lang’s Fury from MGM in 1936. MGM gives Tracy his most important role to date in Fury, co-starring Sylvia Sidney.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1936, Bruce Cabot, fritz lang, fury, Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney

Merrily We Go to Hell starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney

April 22, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

“Merrily We Go to Hell,” a 1932 Paramount production starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney, is one of 6 movies featured in the Pre-Code Hollywood Collection released earlier this month by Universal.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Adrianne Allen, Brief Notes, Cary Grant, Dorothy Arzner, dvd, Fredric March, Merrily We Go to Hell, Movie Reviews, pre-Code, Robert Greig, Skeets Gallagher, Sylvia Sidney

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