TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Sylvia Sidney.
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Birthdate: August 8, 1910
Death date: July 1, 1999
Sylvia Sidney
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
2
1930s
2.8245
22
1940s
1.7928
6
1950s
1.5080
3
1960s
No Reviews
0
1970s
1.9712
4
1980s
1.8216
3
1990s
1.3776
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5198
2.5198
Sylvia Sidney Movie Rankings
1
3.1428Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. ...more about Fury
DVD from $8.00
(12 sellers)
2
3.0246A recently dead couple refuses to allow a new family to move into their house. To scare them off they enlist the help of an expert, renegade haunter, Beetlejuice. ...more about Beetlejuice
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $2.87
(14 sellers)
3
2.9192Gangster Baby Face Martin goes back to the East Side street where he grew up to see his mother, who denounces him as a murderer, and his childhood girlfriend who is now a streetwalker. ...more about Dead End
DVD from $5.30
(11 sellers)
4
2.8419
The Martians decide to attack our planet and devastate everything. ...more about Mars Attacks!
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
5
2.7607
Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. ...more about Damien: Omen II
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
6
2.6926
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. ...more about Violent Saturday
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.6696
The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco. ...more about Hammett
DVD from $7.18
(7 sellers)
8
2.6215
The storyline of this movie involves a series of motiveless murders committed by various New York residents: a sniper shoots people from a water tower; a father murders his entire family; and a cop (Andy Kaufman) opens fire during a St. ...more about God Told Me To
DVD from $9.57
(8 sellers)
9
2.5844
Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government. ...more about Blood on the Sun
DVD from $5.84
(9 sellers)
11
2.5478
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. ...more about You Only Live Once
DVD from $14.06
(8 sellers)
13
2.0662
Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. ...more about I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
DVD from $7.02
(7 sellers)
14
2.0501
Nan, a racketeer's daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support Nan in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. ...more about City Streets
- Not Available on DVD
16
1.7031
Based on the pullitzer prize winning broadway play, Street scene is a study in the daily lives of people who live in a street and the surrounding apartment complexes. ...more about Street Scene
- Not Available on DVD
17
1.6372
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. ...more about Used People
- Not Available on DVD
18
1.5981
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her. ...more about Thirty Day Princess
DVD from $12.34
(13 sellers)
19
1.4793
Hollywood's dramatic contribution to the war effort including clips from "Bataan", "Pride of the marines" and "Cover girls", as well as newsreel footage and interviews with the day's biggest stars. ...more about Going Hollywood: The War Years
DVD from $12.79
(5 sellers)
20
1.0921
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son. ...more about Summer Wishes
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- Not Available on DVD
22
A group of convicts break out of prison, killing a guard, kidnapping the warden and forcing a reluctant inmate to accompany them. ...more about Behind the High Wall
- Not Available on DVD
23
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. ...more about Behold My Wife
- Not Available on DVD
26
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. ...more about Five Minutes from the Station
- Not Available on DVD
28
On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer), and Policeman Martin French (sent to get Kathleen as a witness). ...more about Ladies of the Big House
- Not Available on DVD
29
Cecily Harrington (Sylvia Sidney), struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence (John Howard. ...more about Love from a Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
30
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out the food, drink and girls, 'uh, and girls' to quote Lt. Barton. ...more about Madame Butterfly
- Not Available on DVD
31
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ...more about Mary Burns
- Not Available on DVD
32
Frederich March plays nere-do-well Jerry Corbett, who finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss, played by Sylvia Sydney. ...more about Merrily We Go to Hell
- Not Available on DVD
33
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. ...more about Miracle Man
- Not Available on DVD
34
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years. ...more about Miserables
DVD from $12.63
(10 sellers)
35
Margaret Wyndham Chase (Sylvia Sidney) wants to run for governor and approches Eddie Ace (George Raft), local political kingmaker/fringe gangster, to get his support. Ace's belief is that "beautiful women and politics do not mix" and he declines to help. ...more about Mr. Ace
DVD from $7.20
(5 sellers)
36
A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. ...more about One Third of a Nation
- Not Available on DVD
38
This Screen Snapshots (production number 8854) was made in connection with a party held at Schwab's Hollywood drug store - called the "Schwabadero" here - and hosted by columnist/producer Sidney Skolsky to celebrate the opening of his production, "The ...more about Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party
- Not Available on DVD
39
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowwman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. ...more about Searching Wind
- Not Available on DVD
42
A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer. ...more about Wagons Roll at Night
- Not Available on DVD
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