I like her look and she had a lovely voice.
I also liked the movie Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams which is on youtube. Why wasn't she a bigger star in the 1930's and 1940's. Some of you eldergays must know.
Sylvia Sydney - Why didn't she have a better career?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 30, 2021 1:29 AM |
She *was* a big star in the 1930s. Lots of high-profile films.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 29, 2021 4:52 PM |
Did she have Graves Disease? She always looked like she could have been the poster child for it before Barbara Bush came along.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 29, 2021 4:56 PM |
BENNETT CERF
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 29, 2021 5:03 PM |
She appeared on some episodes of thirtysomething as Melissa's grandmother. Her voice was VERY raspy from smoking all of those cigarettes. By the 1960's Lucille Ball had the same raspy CIGARETTE voice as Sylvia Sidney
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 29, 2021 5:04 PM |
My mom looked so much like Sylvia Sidney and always considered herself ugly--too flat a nose, too wide a mouth--but I think she's lovely. Loved her as the receptionist in Beetlejuice!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 29, 2021 5:15 PM |
Sylvia was Mother Carlson (radio station owner) in the pilot episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. She hired (hot) Andy. Another actress played the character throughout the rest of the series.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 29, 2021 5:18 PM |
I also think she would have had a great face for silent movies. If only she were born 10-20 years before.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 29, 2021 5:21 PM |
I’ve always wondered if she is the eponymous Sylvia in the song “Sylvia’s Mother?”
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 29, 2021 5:33 PM |
I prefer Sylvia Miles.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 30, 2021 1:29 AM |