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S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer. He directed numerous Hollywood films in the late 1930s to 1940s, and was the producer of Born Yesterday (1950).
Director S. Sylvan Simon worked as a drama coach, radio executive and stage director before joining Warner Brothers in 1935. He then moved to MGM as director and assistant director in 1937. His sudden death at the age of 41 shocked all who knew him and he was mourned throughout the film industry.
- March 9, 1910
- May 17, 1951
Director S. Sylvan Simon worked as a drama coach, radio executive and stage director before joining Warner Brothers in 1935. He then moved to MGM as director and assistant director in 1937. His sudden death at the age of 41 shocked all who knew him and he was mourned throughout the film industry.
- Director, Producer
- March 9, 1910
- S. Sylvan Simon
- May 17, 1951
1. Dulcy (1940) Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance. 6. Rate. A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Mar 9, 2018 · Film director and producer S. Sylvan Simon (1910-1951), who worked with such comedians as the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton, W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen , et al, was born on this day. Born in Chicago, Simon was the son of the manager of the Universal Film Exchange.
He was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1950 for Born Yesterday. He also directed-produced Rio Rita (1942), Son Of Lassie (1945), Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) and The Fuller Brush Man (1948). He died, aged 41, of a sudden heart attack in Beverly Hills, California. ...
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S. Sylvan Simon is known as an Director and Producer. Some of his work includes Lust for Gold, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood, Son of Lassie, Grand Central Murder, I Love Trouble, Rio Rita, Whistling in the Dark, and These Glamour Girls.
