Thanks very much for hanging out with us this weekend, Joseph. I realize that you are pretty busy due to the well-earned attention being given your book, but could you please tell us if there are future projects along similar lines that you are pursuing?

Thanks again.

Hi Joe, Thanks for visiting and for your detailed responses. I am almost done with your book, which is often surprisingly touching and very well done. Mary Astor's acting range was exceptional, but I suspect that Mary may have been hyper-critical of herself. I hope she understood how good she really...

http://i.imgur.com/5rsmTt5.jpg "They don't seem to make my type of pictures anymore — the type that was termed 'drawing room' for lack of a better name." - Herbert Marshall, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times late in his career. They may not make them anymore, dear Bart, but on Th...

I hope you had a merry day too, Joe. Thanks for reminding me regularly that the spirit of Christmas abides throughout the year in good hearts such as yours and many of our online friends.

The Bogart story is one that I'd never read before reading your book, Scott--and I've tried to read everything published about this compelling icon. I won't reveal it here, but the incident between Sidney and Bogart offers insight into a dark side of the talented if troubled actor. I suspect that Ba...

A family emergency kept me from being here for much of the day but thank you to everyone--especially Scott--and all SSO members for carrying the conversation forward. One area that I don't think we explored too much is the role of politics in Sylvia's life. From the Group Theater in the '30s on to h...

Have you seen Sidney's turn on the NAKED CITY TV series? It's almost as if we're seeing one of her Depression heroines in 1961, now confronting several bank robbers/killers, one of whom is her nephew played by Robert Duvall. It's quite tense and she has a number of powerful scenes. http://i.imgur.c...

One of the aspects of Sylvia's life that you brought out in your book was the remarkable trajectory of her career on stage in the late '20s, beginning with good notices in her Broadway debut in 1927's Crime opposite Douglass Montgomery and her critically acclaimed part in Gods of Lightning, inspired...

For those curious about one of the less familiar movies mentioned by Scott, Mr. Ace (1947) is available online at youtube: [youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBXuGECEAg[/youtube Did Sylvia Sidney bring out something special in George Raft? He seems much more relaxed and animated in the above fi...

Thanks, Scott. http://i.imgur.com/4uZ8D1l.jpg Above: Sylvia Sidney, demonstrating her early sense of drama In your book, you describe how her her early talent was nurtured by her family--yet, as with many actresses, her home life was not entirely conventional. Could you comment on what made her girl...

Thanks for joining us this weekend, Scott. Sylvia Sidney's presence in such unjustly obscure movies as Thirty Day Princess (1934), Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) and The Searching Wind (1946) have made me a longtime fan.

How did you happen to choose Sylvia Sidney as the subject of your biography?

"There isn't a role that I wouldn't accept, provided it's good and has something to say..." - Sylvia Sidney http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac140/moirathefinn/sylvia12_zpsio13qamc.jpeg Her face was magnificent. In youth, middle age and as an elderly woman she wore it proudly, radiating ...

SYLVIA SIDNEY BIOGRAPHER SCOTT O'BRIEN TO VISIT THE SSO ON 12/17 & 12/18 TO DISCUSS "SYLVIA SIDNEY: PAID BY THE TEAR" ''There isn't a role that I wouldn't accept, provided it's good and has something to say..." - Sylvia Sidney http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac140/moirathefinn...

I would love to know more about Trixie Friganza too, Ron! I understand that you unveiled a Molly Picon short recently as part of The Vitaphone Project's Unseen Vitaphone Varieties — Part 1 . While I cannot come to the NYC area to enjoy your events. many of us may remember the diminutive Ms. Picon fr...

LUPITA TOVAR 1910-2016 RIP Actress Lupita Tovar, mother of Susan Kohner, died close to her daughter"s birthday. Susan is 80, her mother was 106! http://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/11/lupita_tovar.jpg That's the best photo of Lupita Tovarich I have seen. Thanks for sharing...