Sylvia Sidney was born in NYC,in the Bronx borough,in1910.She was a shy child and her parents tried to encourage her to be more outgoing and gregarious.As an early teen,Sylvia had decided that she wanted a stage career.While most parents would have looked down on such an announcement,Sylvia's encouraged her to pursue the dream she had made.A petite saucer-eyed stage-trained player,she first became established on the Broadway stage while still in her teens.In 1927,at age 16,she had the ingenue role in the melodrama "Crime" and received strong notices for her work. Over the course of the next 70-plus years,Sidney proved her mettle in a wide-range of productions on stage,screen and TV.Sidney earned an Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on "The Defenders" in 1963.After nearly twenty years, Sidney returned to features and picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams" (1973).She died in 1999,of throat cancer.