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George Sidney

George Sidney

Director · Born 1916-10-04 · Long Island City, New York, USA

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Biography

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. Fo…

Directed

  1. Anchors Aweigh (1945) — Director
  2. The Three Musketeers (1948) — Director
  3. Viva Las Vegas (1964) — Director
  4. Bye Bye Birdie (1963) — Director
  5. Scaramouche (1952) — Director
  6. Kiss Me Kate (1953) — Director
  7. Annie Get Your Gun (1950) — Director
  8. Pal Joey (1957) — Director
  9. Show Boat (1951) — Director
  10. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) — Director
  11. The Harvey Girls (1946) — Director
  12. Pepe (1960) — Director
  13. The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) — Director
  14. Bathing Beauty (1944) — Director
  15. Who Was That Lady? (1960) — Director
  16. Young Bess (1953) — Director
  17. Thousands Cheer (1943) — Director
  18. Half a Sixpence (1967) — Director
  19. Quicker'n a Wink (1940) — Director
  20. The Swinger (1966) — Director
  21. Jeanne Eagels (1957) — Director
  22. The Red Danube (1949) — Director
  23. Key to the City (1950) — Director
  24. Pilot #5 (1943) — Director
  25. Cass Timberlane (1947) — Director
  26. Hollywood Hobbies (1939) — Director
  27. Love on Tap (1939) — Director
  28. Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937) — Director
  29. Of Pups and Puzzles (1941) — Director
  30. A Ticklish Affair (1963) — Director
  31. Jupiter's Darling (1955) — Director
  32. Dog Daze (1939) — Director
  33. Free and Easy (1941) — Director
  34. Holiday in Mexico (1946) — Director
  35. Clown Princes (1939) — Director
  36. Men in Fright (1938) — Director
  37. Party Fever (1938) — Director
  38. Flicker Memories (1941) — Director
  39. Tiny Troubles (1939) — Director
  40. Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
  2. The Donna Reed Show (1958)
  3. Filmmakers in Action (2006) — Self (archive footage)
  4. Rita (2003) — Self
  5. The Republic Pictures Story (1991) — Self