Want to know the best Sylvia Sidney movies?  How about the worst Sylvia Sidney movies?  Curious about Sylvia Sidney box office grosses or which Sylvia Sidney movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Sylvia Sidney movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) was an Oscar® nominated American actress.  She was a leading lady in the 1930s….whose career spanned 8 decades.  His first movie was 1929’s Thru Different Eyes and her last movie was 67 years later when she saved Earth from aliens in 1996’s Mars Attacks.   Her IMDb page shows 107 acting credits from 1929-1998. This page will rank 35 Sylvia Sidney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  Her many television appearances, a few not released in North American theaters and some early Paramount movies were not included in the rankings.  This page comes from a request by Germany’s Lupino.

Sylvia Sidney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1988	Beetlejuice (1988)
1937	Dead End (1937) AA Best Picture Nom
1936	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
1936	Fury (1936)
1945	Blood on the Sun (1945)
1931	Street Scene (1931)
1931	City Streets (1931)
1931	An American Tragedy (1931)
1937	You Only Live Once (1937)
1938	You And Me (1938)
1933	Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
1933	Pick-Up (1933)
1932	Merrily We Go To Hell (1932)
1955	Violent Saturday (1955)
1978	Damien: Omen II (1978)
1936	Sabotage/A Woman Alone (1936)
1932	Ladies of the Big House (1932)
1935	Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
1946	The Searching Wind (1946)
1996	Mars Attacks! (1996)
1941	The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
1934	Behold My Wife! (1934)
1935	Accent on Youth (1935)
1952	Les Miserables (1952)
1956	Behind The High Wall (1956)
1932	The Miracle Man (1932)
1939	...One Third of a Nation... (1939)
1934	Thirty Day Princess (1934)
1947	Love From A Stranger (1947)
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) AA Best Supp Actress Nom
1977	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
1946	Mr. Ace (1946)
1932	Madame Butterfly (1932)
1931	Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
1982	Hammett (1982)
1992	Used People (1992)
1976	God Told Me To/Demon (1976)
1934	Good Dame (1934)

Sylvia Sidney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort Sylvia Sidney films by co-stars of her movies
• Sort Sylvia Sidney films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Sylvia Sidney films by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort Sylvia Sidney films by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Sylvia Sidney film received.
• Sort Sylvia Sidney films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Sylvia Sidney – All From Lupino’s Excellent Comment

1. Sylvia Sidney was born August 8th, 1910 as Sophia Kosow in New York (Bronx).

2. Sylvia Sidney had an ongoing affair with Paramount producer BP Schulberg in the 30’s, who was 18 years her senior.

3. Sylvia Sidney was married 3 times, had one son, Jodie, who suffered from ALS and to whom she was highly devoted. He died in 1987.

4. Sylvia Sidney had a reputation for being very outspoken, she was often referred to as being cantankerous.

5. Sylvia Sidney played the tragic Cio-Cio San in the nonmusical version of 1932’s Madame Butterfly  which led to a brand of Japanese condoms being named the “Sylvia Sidneys”.

6. Sylvia Sidney was nominated for Golden Globes® and Emmy Awards®, she won the Golden Globe® for her work in the first TV movie dealing with HIV, An early Frost in 1985.

7. Sylvia Sidney was an expert on needle pointing and wrote 2 books on that topic.

8.  Sylvia Sidney made one movie with Alfred Hitchcock and William Wyler….she did not get along with either legendary director.

9. Director Tim Burton was a fan of Sylvia Sidney.  He cast her as Juno in Beetlejuice and as Grandma Flo in Mars Attacs!. Sidney had the following to say about him: “The way Tim Burton treated me, I really felt like a star!”

10. Sylvia Sidney died from throat cancer aged 88, being a lifelong smoker she didn’t even stop during chemo-therapy.

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