S. Sylvan Simon
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![]() S. Sylvan Simon (left) with Abbott and Costello during the filming of Rio Rita (1942) | |
Born | Chicago, Illinois, United States | March 9, 1910
Died | May 17, 1951[1] Hollywood, Los Angeles, California | (aged 41)
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Spouse(s) | Harriet Berk |
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).
Life and work[]
Born in Chicago, Simon earned BA and MA degrees at the University of Michigan, and later attended Columbia Law School.[1]
Simon 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 on two more Skelton vehicles, A Southern Yankee and The Fuller Brush Man, in 1948. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in Bad Bascomb (1946), and a Glenn Ford western, Lust for Gold (1949).
Simon was the producer of Born Yesterday,[1] a 1950 comedy that was nominated for five Academy Awards.
He died of a heart attack, in Hollywood, California, at the age of 41.[1] His ashes were interred in a small unassuming bronze nameplate niche at Columbarium of Memory (Niche # 20174), in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.
Filmography[]
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Producer[]
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (uncredited, 1945)
- I Love Trouble (1948)
- The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
- Shockproof (1949)
- Lust for Gold (1949)
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
- Father Is a Bachelor (1950)
- The Good Humor Man (1950)
- The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "S. Sylvan Simon, Film Executive, 41; Columbia Producer-Director Is Dead – 'Born Yesterday' Among his Movie Credits". The New York Times. May 19, 1951. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
External links[]
- 1910 births
- 1951 deaths
- American film directors
- Film producers from Illinois
- American theatre directors
- Artists from Chicago
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- University of Michigan alumni
- American film director stubs