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Jun 4, 2019 · NEW YORK ( JTA) — In the bullfighting world of the 1920s and ’30s, Sidney Franklin was defined not only by his Americaness, elegance or tough-guy personality but also by his Jewishness. The first American to reach the status of a matador in Spain, he was nicknamed “El Torero de la Torah,” or “the Torah bullfighter.”.
Sidney Franklin. Writer: TV Reader's Digest. Sidney Franklin was born on 11 July 1903 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for TV Reader's Digest (1955), The Kid from Spain (1932) and De Nueva York a Huipanguillo (1943).
Sidney Franklin (1903–76) was the last person you’d expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Sidney had an all-American boyhood in early twentieth-century Brooklyn—while hiding the fact that he was gay.
Sidney Franklin. Actor: Faking It. Sidney actually started his acting in the living room in front of his stuffed toys, parents, and anyone else he could find to sit and watch him perform. He gradually found this homespun audience not to his liking, and made his first professional acting debut in front of a 3600 seat arena.
Participated in the Los Angeles Film Project on August 5, 2017 with the Amalgamated Grommets! Bad Cat Films team moves onto "Best of" screening, on August 8, 2017, at the Seattle 48 Hr. Film Project, for "Refuge". Participated in the Seattle 48 Film Project on July 8, 2017 with Bad Cat Films! Evil Alan just screened at FilmOut San Diego!
Franklin developed into a skilled, sensitive director in the 1930s with films such as "Private Lives" (1931) and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934) and began producing for MGM in 1939.
Jun 6, 2019 · An old photograph captures the day Sidney Franklin, a gay, Jewish man from Park Slope, became a full-fledged bullfighter in 1945. Franklin rose to notoriety and fame as the first and only Jewish-American matador to fight in the arenas of Mexico and Spain. His life story is the inaugural subject for Out of the Box, a lecture series at the Center ...
