Cast & creator
George Sidney
Best known for The Donna Reed Show, The Oscars, E! True Hollywood Story
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sidney was assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies in 1938. After a year of working on these shorts, he moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties. He graduated to directing features in 1941. He then worked his way into directing large scale musicals such as The Harvey Girls (1946), The Three Musketeers (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) at Columbia Pictures, where he made his base for the next decade for such films as Jeanne Eagels (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Who Was That Lady? (1960), Pepe (1960), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He would return to MGM to film A Ticklish Affair (1963) and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas (1964). His last film was Half a Sixpence (1967). Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times, starting with the lush Technicolor remake of Show Boat. In 1958 he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for Best World Entertainment through Musical Films. For his work in the art of cinema, George Sidney was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Also known as: Джордж Сидни
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Filmography (64)
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The Donna Reed Show
1958
The Oscars
Producer
1953
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Three Musketeers
Director
1948
Scaramouche
Director
1952
Bathing Beauty
Director
1944
Bye Bye Birdie
Director
1963Bye Bye Birdie
Producer
1963
Viva Las Vegas
Producer
1964Viva Las Vegas
Director
1964
Who Was That Lady?
Director
1960
Show Boat
Director
1951
That's Entertainment, Part II
Thanks
1976
Annie Get Your Gun
Director
1950
Young Bess
Director
1953
The Eddy Duchin Story
Director
1956
Cass Timberlane
Director
1947
Anchors Aweigh
Director
1945
Key to the City
Director
1950
Ziegfeld Follies
Director
1945
Kiss Me Kate
Director
1953
The Red Danube
Director
1949
The Harvey Girls
Director
1946
Jeanne Eagels
Director
1957Jeanne Eagels
Producer
1957
Jupiter's Darling
Director
1955
Pal Joey
Director
1957
The Swinger
Director
1966The Swinger
Producer
1966
Rita
Self
2003
Thousands Cheer
Director
1943
Pepe
Director
1960Pepe
Producer
1960
A Ticklish Affair
Director
1963
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Director
1937
Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)
2006
Half a Sixpence
Director
1967Half a Sixpence
Producer
1967
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Director
1938
Pacific Paradise
Director
1937
Pacific Rendezvous
Director
1942
The Republic Pictures Story
Self
1991
Of Pups and Puzzles
Director
1941
Hollywood Hobbies
Director
1939Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Director
1939'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
Director
1940
Holiday in Mexico
Director
1946
Pilot #5
Director
1943
Love on Tap
Director
1939
Free and Easy
Director
1941
Quicker'n a Wink
Director
1940
Flicker Memories
Director
1941
Willie and the Mouse
Director
1941
Tiny Troubles
Director
1939
Alfalfa's Aunt
Director
1939Practical Jokers
Director
1938Duel Personalities
Director
1939
Clown Princes
Director
1939
Dog Daze
Director
1939
Party Fever
Director
1938Men in Fright
Director
1938
Third Dimensional Murder
Director
1941Football Romeo
Director
1938
Cousin Wilbur
Director
1939