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Jul 2, 1999 · Sylvia Sidney, whose vulnerable but spunky persona helped make her the ultimate heroine of realistic movies of the 1930's, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
She married actor and acting teacher Luther Adler in 1938, by whom she had her only child, a son Jacob ("Jody"; 1939–1987), who died of Lou Gehrig's disease while his mother was still alive. Adler and Sidney divorced in 1946. [1]
Son of actors Luther Adler and Sylvia Sidney.
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Jul 3, 1999 · Jacob Adler, her only child, died in the mid-1980s of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Miss Sidney also was an accomplished needlepoint artist and wrote two books on the...
Jul 2, 1999 · A second marriage to actor Luther Adler produced a son Jacob (Jody), whose later battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease turned Sidney into a volunteer for the National ALS Foundation.
Jul 2, 1999 · Sylvia Sidney, a durable character actress for seven decades who in her mid-80s appeared in the 1996 hit film “Mars Attacks!” died Thursday in New York. Sidney died at Lennox Hill Hospital of...
Her second husband, the son of Jacob P. and Sarah Adler, was a member of the famous Adler acting clan of the Yiddish stage. Her son by Luther Adler, Jody, died in 1985 from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) during Sidney’s filming of one of the first AIDS television films, An Early Frost .
