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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).
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30 March 1988
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
13 December 1996
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace.
09 June 1978
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school.
16 May 1957
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club.
08 June 1933
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
16 March 1934
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
01 January 1983
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
23 January 1937
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison.
26 June 1989
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
28 December 1955
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up.
02 December 1936
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily.
16 February 1982
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town.
27 August 1937
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
14 July 1977
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
31 December 1987
A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
15 May 1980
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term.
01 May 1985
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice.
08 March 1982
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
13 April 1929
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home.
26 April 1945
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination.
01 April 1955
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
26 December 1976
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
05 June 1936
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
21 May 1990
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
22 October 1976
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.
24 March 1933
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned.
24 February 1985
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
05 June 1988
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.
01 July 1956
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
16 December 1992
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home.
12 October 1926
Geoffrey Tempest is desperately in love with aspiring writer Mavis Claire, a tenant of his boardinghouse.
05 September 1931
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot.
30 September 1980
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
24 November 1981
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
22 August 1931
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
09 June 1982
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
26 December 1931
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
18 April 1931
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
01 July 1932
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
03 March 1975
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
28 April 1977
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
25 April 1941
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat.
01 April 1932
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.
13 March 1936
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
09 November 1971
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service.
08 July 1931
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912.
15 November 1947
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence.
09 August 1946
In the decades preceding World War II, American diplomat Alex Hazen witnesses the rise of Mussolini and Hitler but does not use any of his ambassadorial powers to intervene.
18 February 1975
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
02 August 1946
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
18 May 1934
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.
23 August 1935
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
21 March 1980
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
30 December 1932
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it.
14 November 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
13 February 1958
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar.
15 March 1983
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
06 December 1934
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage.
