Sylvia Sidney
Toronto Daily Star, June 30 1931
Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) was just starting a career in movies and television that lasted until 1996, when she played Grandma Florence Norris in Mars Attacks!. In 1973, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. She also appeared in the pilot episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
She was married and divorced three times; one of her ex-husbands was future What's My Line? panelist Bennett Cerf. When not acting, she wrote two books on needlepoint and raised pug dogs.
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