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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
S. Sylvan Simon. Motion Picture Director and Producer. 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).
The Fuller Brush Man: Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. With Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke. Striving to be a whiz-bang salesman and screwing up at every turn, Red Skelton turns in a genius comic performance inevitably getting into big trouble, impossible situations and a wild chase involving dastardly crooks.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- S. Sylvan Simon
- 1948-06
I Love Trouble: Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. With Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens. P.I. Stuart Bailey is hired to investigate the past of Ralph Johnson's wife who has gone missing.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
- S. Sylvan Simon
- 1948-01-15
Song of the Open Road is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillips and Edward Verdier. It was the debut film of teenage singer Jane Powell.
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.
