S. Sylvan Simon

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S. Sylvan Simon

Born March 9, 1910(1910-03-09)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died May 17, 1951 (aged 41)

S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 - May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer. He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. In 1937, he moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers' The Big Store, supervising many of the slapstick sequences. He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's Whistling in the Dark, and later worked with Skelton again on Skelton's 1948 vehicle, A Southern Yankee and The Fuller Brush Man in 1948. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in Bad Bascomb (1946).

He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 41.

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  • Hollywood Screen Test (1937)
  • A Girl with Ideas (1937)
  • Prescription for Romance (1937)
  • The Crime of Dr. Hallet (1938)
  • The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
  • The Ranger and the Lady (1938)
  • Spring Madness (1938)
  • Four Girls in White (1939)
  • The Kid from Texas (1939)
  • These Glamour Girls (1939)
  • Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
  • Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
  • Sporting Blood aka Sterling Metal (1940)
  • Dulcy (1940)
  • Keeping Company (1940)
  • Washington Melodrama (1941)
  • Whistling in the Dark (1941)

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NAME Simon, S. Sylvan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film producer, film and theatre director
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1951
PLACE OF DEATH