#sylvia sidney

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some women w prominent eyebags/dark circles as a feature bc it’s so attractive

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Sylvia Sidney

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Sylvia Sidney and Gary Cooper in City Streets (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

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SYLVIA SIDNEY and CARY GRANT in MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) dir. Dorothy Arzner

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Merrily We Go To Hell (1932)

A complex look at open relationships, marriage, and alcoholism. Dorothy Arzner broke new ground as a woman behind the camera. I watched this film for the first time last year, but it was even better on a rewatch last night.

It starts with a lot of fun and it clearly wears its pre-Code sensibilities on its sleeve for an act or two, but then the film gets serious, sad and heavy, with the charming alcoholic lead (Fredric March) making a mess of himself before the woman who loves him (Sylvia Sidney) and our very eyes. Human and real, it pulls no punches.

There was a greater diversity of human experience and experimentation during the pre-code era, even when the films weren't objectively good or deep, that was stamped out under the code and it's a shame.

[lizztaylor]

In all the time we've been together, you've never once said, "I love you."

Sylvia Sidney & Fredric March

in Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

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Sylvia Sidney by Elwood Bredell (1931)

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Sylvia Sidney, 1934

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Sylvia Sidney in Paramount Pictures, 1933

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Jewish Old Hollywood actresses

• Hedy Lamarr

✡︎ Born to a Galician-Jewish father and Hungarian-Jewish mother.

• Lauren Bacall

✡︎ Both her mother and father were Jewish. Her father was born to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a predominantly Jewish community in present-day Belarus.

• Shelley Winters

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents, Winters' education included attendance at the Jamaica Jewish Center in Queens, New York and learning Hebrew songs at her public school.

• Theda Bara

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents.

• Paulette Goddard

✡︎ Born to a Jewish father.

• Sylvia Sidney

✡︎ Born to a Romanian-Jewish mother and Russian-Jewish father.

• Judy Holliday

✡︎ Born Judith Tuvim (she took her stage name from yom tovim, which is Hebrew for "holidays") to a Russian-Jewish father, who was executive director of the foundation for the Jewish National Fund of America, and a Russian-Jewish mother.

• Alla Nazimova

✡︎ Born to Russian-Jewish parents.

• Piper Laurie

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

• Carmel Myers

✡︎ Born to a Russian-Jewish father, who was a rabbi, and an Austrian-Jewish mother.

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Sylvia Sidney in 'Mr. Ace' (1946).

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Sylvia Sidney

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SYLVIA SIDNEY in THIRTY DAY PRINCESS (1934)

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Sylvia Sidney and Gary Cooper in City Streets (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

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SYLVIA SIDNEY in MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) — dir. Dorothy Arzner

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Dual propaganda! Sylvia Sidney AND Loretta Young, because they were both saved in my 'my god what a FACE' folder.

First up, Sylvia! I had this picture as my phone wallpaper because she's just so dreamy.

And far be it from me to withhold these from you:

And finally, she starred in a movie called Behold My Wife, which is funnily enough exactly what I think each time I look at her.

And on the other side of the coin, Loretta Young YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS because my god what a FACE

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Sylvia Sidney & Henry Fonda in You Only Live Once (1937)