S. Sylvan Simon

Director

About

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Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Born

March 09, 1910

Died

May 17, 1951

Filmography

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Lust for Gold (1949)

A Southern Yankee (1948)

The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

I Love Trouble (1948)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

The Thrill of Brazil (1946)

Photos & Videos

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Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) MacNamara's Band

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes!

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Lust for Gold (1949)

A Southern Yankee (1948)

The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

I Love Trouble (1948)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

The Thrill of Brazil (1946)

The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)

Bad Bascomb (1946)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Son of Lassie (1945)

Song of the Open Road (1944)

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)

Salute to the Marines (1943)

Whistling in Dixie (1942)

Rio Rita (1942)

The Bugle Sounds (1942)

Grand Central Murder (1942)

Washington Melodrama (1941)

Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

Keeping Company (1940)

Sporting Blood (1940)

Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

The Kid from Texas (1939)

Four Girls in White (1939)

These Glamour Girls (1939)

Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Spring Madness (1938)

The Road to Reno (1938)

The Crime of Dr. Hallett (1938)

Prescription for Romance (1937)

A Girl with Ideas (1937)

Producer (Feature Film)

Born Yesterday (1950)

Lust for Gold (1949)

I Love Trouble (1948)

The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

The Good Humor Man (1950)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1984)

Life Events

Videos

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) MacNamara's Band With his informally adopted clan (Gary and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow and Mary Jane Saunders), drifter and singer Johnny (William Holden, dubbed by the popular singer Buddy Clark, who had died in a plane crash by the time the picture was released) offers the 1889 Irish music-hall standard (by Shamus O’Connor and John J. Stamford) , producing an unexpected job offer (from Sig Ruman), in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes! Still not committed to the Chalotte kids (Gary Gray with Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow and Mary Jane Saunders) who have mostly adopted him, drifter-singer Johnny (William Holden) is assailed by do-gooder Prudence (second billed Colleen Gray, in her first scene) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses After an opening scene singing in blackface in a minstrel-medicine show, in which his colleague (Charles Winninger) wound up jailed, Johnny (William Holden) takes up fishing and meets the Chalotte kids (Mary Jane Saunders, Gary Gray and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Bad Bascomb (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Elder Because You're Younger? Title character Wallace Beery in Wyoming learning to shoot right-handed because the lawmen know he’s a lefty, J. Carrol Naish his sidekick Yancey, Marshall Thompson his literate conscript Jimmy, and Frank Darien the unlucky Mormon traveler, early in MGM’s Bad Bascomb, 1946, also starring Margaret O’Brien.

Bad Bascomb (1946) -- (Movie Clip) When We Get To Utah Bandit Wallace Beery (title character), hiding out in a Mormon wagon train, has just learned that male converts are required to work, and he’s been drafted by Marjorie Main as Abbey, whose granddaughter Emmy (Margaret O’Brien) he’s already met, his pal Yancey (J. Carrol Naish) making out better, in MGM’s Bad Bascomb,1946.

Bad Bascomb (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Shalt Not Steal Fugitive illiterate title character Wallace Beery has bluffed his way into a Mormon wagon train in Wyoming, unhappy with the provisions, helping himself when Margaret O’Brien, with whom he shares top billing, appears as orphaned Emmy, in MGM’s Bad Bascomb, 1946, also starring Marjorie Main.

Abbott And Costello In Hollywood (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Get That Dummy! Lou (Costello) fleeing security (Edgar Dearing) at "Mammoth" studios as the big cameos begin, Lucille Ball, Preston Foster and Robert Z. Leonard his first victims, then Bud (Abbott) in costume as another cop, and another gag, in Abott And Costello In Hollywood, 1945.

Whistling In Dixie -- (Movie Clip) Grape O Mix Crime Hour After an opening murder in Georgia, we meet Marty "The Fox" Benton on his radio show, with girlfriend and co-star Carol (Ann Rutherford), the commissioner (Joseph Crehan), doctor (Pierre Watkin) and producer (Emmett Vogan), in the second film in MGM's series, Whistling In Dixie, 1942.

Whistling In Dixie -- (Movie Clip) Inside Of An Eight-Ball Now at the Georgia home of her sorority sister Ellamae (Diana Lewis), New Yorker Carol (Ann Rutherford) and her boyfriend, radio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton (Red Skelton), visit the old fort from which a body disappeared, in MGM's Whistling In Dixie, 1942.

Rio Rita (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Long Before You Came Along Devoted fan "Rita" (Kathryn Grayson) is singing along with her portable on the prairie when the artist himself "Ricardo Montera" (John Carroll), local boy made good, happens along, song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, in MGM's Abbott & Costello re-boot of Rio Rita, 1942.

Rio Rita (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Get Me Out Of This! Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello), stuck in Texas, stowed away in the trunk of a car with New York plates, it didn't work out and, still in Texas, the car is dropped off for service, early in MGM's Rio Rita, 1942.

Rio Rita (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Get Pike's Peak One of their best opening routines in their first adventure away from Universal, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello at work in a pet store, in MGM's 1942 re-vamp of Rio Rita, also starring Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll.

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