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    George Sidney

    American film director and producer

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  1. George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His work includes cult classics Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and Viva Las Vegas (1964). With an extensive background in acting, stage direction, film editing, and music, Sidney created many of post-war Hollywood's big ...

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    George Sidney (1916-2002) George Sidney. The son of Louis K. Sidney the vice president of M.G.M. and Hazel Mooney of The Mooney Sisters. In his teens he worked as studio messenger going through every department learning the techniques and secrets of the trade. In 1933 he was assigned to direct screen tests of Judy Garland, Robert Taylor and ...

    • January 1, 1
    • Long Island City, New York, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  3. George Sidney was a prolific and successful director of musicals, comedies and swashbucklers at MGM and Columbia. He won three Oscars, co-founded Hanna-Barbera Productions and retired to become a paleontologist and photographer.

    • October 4, 1916
    • May 5, 2002
  4. George Sidney was an American film director who directed a number of the most popular movie musicals of the 1940s and ’50s, including Anchors Aweigh (1945), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Sidney was born into a show-business family. His father was a theatre.

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  5. May 7, 2002 · George Sidney was born on Oct. 4, 1916, in Long Island City, Queens, to a wealthy show business family. His father was a Broadway producer, his mother was part of a headlining sister act, and he ...

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  7. May 6, 2002 · Director George Sidney, famous for helming MGM musicals "Anchors Aweigh," "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun," died at his Las Vegas home on Sunday from complications of lymphoma. He was 85.

  8. May 5, 2002 · George Sidney was an American film director and producer who worked at MGM and Columbia. He made musicals such as The Harvey Girls, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie, and won a Golden Globe Award in 1958.

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