A petite saucer-eyed stage-trained player, Sylvia Sidney 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.While she had a supporting role in "Thru Different Eyes" (1929), Sidney continued to work on stage and achieved a breakthrough in the title role of "Bad Girl" in 1930. Put under contract at Paramount, she was tapped to replace Clara
